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2A Daily News – Thursday, June 9, 2011 Community people&events Murphy commissioned On May 20, Ian Murphy graduated from the Univer- sity of San Francisco (USF) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Politics with a minor in History. On the same day, Murphy was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the US Army. As part of graduation and commissioning, Murphy was awarded the Distin- guished Military Graduate Award (top 20 percent of all ROTC cadets across the nation); The George C. Marshall Award; the Reserve Offi- cers Associate Award; the Military Order of the Purple Heart ROTC Leadership Medal; and the Professor of Mili- tary Science Dean’s List Award. Murphy will be a CBRN officer, trained to deal with the threat of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). After attending the CBRN training course at Ft. Leonard Wood in Missouri, Murphy will be assigned to the 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division at Ft. Lewis, Washington. He is a 2007 graduate of Mercy High School and the son of Mark and Peggy Murphy of Red Bluff. Rib cook-off Saturday The Red Bluff Elks Lodge #1250 will be holding its Fifth Annual Rib Cook-Off and Emblem Club #408 Craft Fair on Saturday, June 11. Cookers will start enticing patrons for the People’s Choice votes between noon and 3:30 p.m. Ribs will be judged at 3 p.m. and dinner served at 4 p.m. The cost for a wristband is $12 for adults and $6 for children 10 and younger. The wristband will allow you to taste test at all the booths and enjoy din- ner. Red Bluff’s own Chad Bushnell will be providing entertainment. There will be a lot of raffle prizes, along with the awards for Judge’s Choice and People’s Choice. The Red Bluff Elks and Emblem are non-profit organizations which help many charities in the com- munity. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight –––––––– It is the policy of the Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you feel a factual error has been made in a news story, call the news department at 527-2153. Growing annuals from seed By DIANE CLELAND Annuals are perhaps the easiest plants you will ever grow. Yet their ease of growth in no way detracts from their ability to provide color in the yard, in some cases virtually all year around. Whether your yard is large, small or you work within the confines of just a small courtyard, annuals are the plants for you. Nothing is quite as amazing, or as humbling, as seeing a full-grown plant, that started life as a tiny seed, burst into flower and create a riot of color just a few weeks after it was sown. Some annuals need no more care than simply scattering the seeds over the surface of the ground and "rak- ing" them in using your fingertips; others only demand that they are sown to the correct depth and then given space to grow as they develop. By their very nature, many annu- als produce brilliant results, even in the poorest of soils. So get some seed catalogs, visit the local garden center, and start performing your own gar- dening miracles with the easiest plants on earth. Virtually all annuals are raised by Dear Annie: I retired from the Navy after 30 years of service. Many of those years were spent at sea, so I was looking forward to spending some stress-free time with my wife. It hasn’t happened. Here’s the problem: We sowing seeds, either in the early spring under cover, or directly into prepared soil outdoors. Some annu- als are so adaptable that you only need to sow them once from then onward, these so-called "self-seed- ers’ regularly drop seeds into the soil, which then germinate, of their own accord. In many ways, these hardy annuals do a better job of sowing than we do, finding just the right spot for perfect growth, often in places we might never dream of sowing seeds, such as in cracks in the sidewalk and in the gravel of driveways. When you buy seeds from garden centers and similar outlets, always avoid any packets that are faded, yel- low, and have most likely have been exposed to the sun, as the results are likely to be disappointing. On most packets, the inspiration on the front is backed-up by full growing instructions on the reverse. The better packets give sowing times, expected flowering period, and alternative sowing times in the fall. Keep seed packets after sowing, along with catalogs, they build up into an invaluable library that you can refer to when necessary. Always keep seed in a cool, dry, frost-free place. Annuals complete their life cycle in a year, while biennials require two years. Annuals and biennials are termed hardy or half-hardy. Hardy annuals are resistant to frosts and so should be sown early in open ground to become established before the more frost-prone annuals. Half- hardy annuals withstand only a limit- ed amount of cold and are killed or badly damaged at freezing tempera- tures; they need to be maintained in frost-free conditions to germinate and become established. Hardy bien- nials should be sown by mid-summer to allow the plants to become well established before winter. The Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with the Cascade District Garden Club; California Garden Clubs, Inc; Pacific Region Garden Clubs; and National Garden Club, Inc. Raucous, rude residents ruin retirement have owned our house for 30 years, but two years ago, new neighbors moved in. The one next door has a voice so loud, we can no longer enjoy our backyard. Her laugh is a deaf- ening cackle. I put up a privacy fence, to no avail. It has only made her loud- er. Her husband, too. The new neighbors across the street Annie’s Mailbox by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar association that helps mediate disputes. Beyond that, there are limits to what you can do without creating additional problems. Try to ignore the neighbor with the diapers, and consider fans or other white noise devices when you are using your yard. Dear Annie: My husband is an outgoing guy and is easy to talk to. He’s handsome, funny and loves to be sociable. My problem is, women adore him, and I find myself D NEWSAILY HOW TO REACH US RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 VOLUME 126, NUMBER 171 On the Web: www.redbluffdailynews.com MAIN OFFICE: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Main Phone (530) 527-2151 Outside area 800-479-6397 545 Diamond Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ Fax: (530) 527-5774 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. Box 220 Red Bluff, CA 96080 CUSTOMER SERVICE: Subscription & delivery Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (530) 527-2151, Ext. 1 subscription rates (All prices include all applicable taxes) Monday through Saturday $9.59 four weeks Rural Rate $10.69 four weeks Business & professional rate $2.21 four weeks, Monday-Friday By mail: In Tehama County $12.29 four weeks All others $16.23 four weeks (USPS 458-200) Published Monday through Saturday except Sunday, by California Newspaper Partnership. 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Local Happenings The person who took the auto tire and rim from Frank Hill’s car at Gardner’s Grove Saturday night can avoid trouble by returning the same to him at once. The serial number of the tire is on record, and the person is known. —Daily News, June 9, 1921 live their lives on the front porch, including changing the newborn’s dirty diapers in front of everyone. Shouldn’t this be done in the privacy of their home or backyard? What should I do? — Gonzo Dear Gonzo: First try the direct, friendly approach. Talk to your next- door neighbors. Invite them over for coffee. Get to know them. Then ask if they can please keep the noise level down. Visit your neighbor across the street, and suggest they change the baby’s diapers inside the house so as not to gross out passersby. Also, check into the possibility of a local neighborhood or homeowners Wine garden Shasta Cascade Viticulture Association, in conjunc- tion with the Shasta District Fair, will host their third annual “Shasta Wine Garden” inside the Anderson Fairgrounds, near the front gate. The Shasta Wine Garden will sell North State wines daily, June 15 to 19, from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. A tasting fee of $10 includes a commemorative glass. The fee does not include fair admission. There will be many North State wineries at the Shas- ta Wine Garden daily. Wine will be sold by the glass, bottle, or case. On Thursday night, June 16, at the Shasta Wine Gar- den, the SCVA will host their annual wine tasting event. Taste an extensive variety of fine North State wines, talk with local winemakers, and enjoy local musicians in this unique and relaxed setting. This is the only Wine Garden north of Sacramento and is open to the public, however, attendees must be at least 21 years old to drink wine. For more information, contact Greg Butler at 226- 9021. forced to watch them flirt with him. One of my girlfriends got rather tipsy and whispered something suggestive in his ear. When I asked what that was about, my husband claimed he ‘‘didn’t remember.’’ Another friend rubbed her hands up and down his back while say- ing hello. She’s not that friendly with anyone else. There have been other incidents, too. I am so sick of putting up with this. I trust my husband, and he knows how I feel. Please give me some advice before another woman puts her paws on my man. — Not Handling this Well Dear Not Handling: Honey, you married an attractive man who enjoys the attentions of other women. While some women are terribly aggressive, the truth is, men can put the kibosh on most of this flirting if they make the effort. You say you trust your husband, but it obviously isn’t enough to make you feel secure. Ask him to stop tacit- ly encouraging this flirting because it is disrespectful to your marriage. He can be friendly and still dial down the charm a few notches. Dear Annie: If ‘‘Dutiful Daugh- ter’’ had written: ‘‘My mother is in her late 60s and is becoming increasingly difficult,’’ you would have responded by asking what in Mom’s life was making her so unhappy. Instead, because the daughter said her mother was in her late 80s, you suggest this could be early dementia and that she needs an evaluation. Even people with cognitive impair- ments can be made unhappy by cir- cumstances in their lives. And the cur- rent state of medical ‘‘evaluation’’ mainly adds to the stigma without helping mother or daughter. — Mar- garet M. Gullette, Ph.D., Resident Scholar, Women’s Studies Research Center, Brandeis University Dear Margaret Gullette: We appreciate that some folks, regardless of age, can be unhappy, and that there may be very specific reasons why. But it would be terribly irresponsible of us to ignore the possibility that a person in her late 80s may have age-related issues, including some mild dementia. Like it or not, age is often a factor in physical as well as mental changes. COMMUNITY CLIPS Hospital president speaks Jon Halfhide, president of St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, presented a Health Care Reform update to the Tehama County Tea Party Convention May 31. During his presentation, Halfhide stressed the impor- tance of addressing MediCare and MediCal coverage as these reimbursement programs are paying less than the cost of care, while populations utilizing these programs are growing at an increasing rate. Halfhide speaks with significant experience in the healthcare industry. His father was one of the founders of MD Imaging in Redding and he has been a member of the Catholic Healthcare West team for over 25 years. After many years in Sacramento as a CHW finance man- ager, Jon, raised in Redding, returned to the Northstate as the Chief Financial Officer for the CHW hospitals of the region. He has been the Senior leader for the market for 11 years and resides on several CHW corporate steering com- mittees for healthcare reform. The Tea Party meets Tuesdays at the Westside Grange on Walnut Street in Red Bluff. On June 14, the meeting con- flicts with a U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service meeting, which will be 6-8 p.m. at the Red Bluff Community Center. The purpose of the meeting is to receive input on its proposed California Foothills Legacy Area Project. The Tehama County Tea Party would like to encourage all persons with large parcels of land to attend this meeting. Thank you to the Red Bluff Tehama County Chamber of Commerce, The Red Bluff Daily News and Rolling Hills Casino for bringing us the 2011 Ribs, Rods & Rides Event. Thank you Tehama County for voting us #1 in the People’s Choice Rib Cook Off! 2 Bud’ B.B.Q.s 3 years in a row! We sell out most days, be sure to call ahead for special orders. 22825 Antelope Blvd., Red Bluff Mon.- Fri. 11am-6pm Sat. 11am-3pm 530 528-0799