Red Bluff Daily News

Monday, June 27, 2011 – Daily News 3A Local Calendar MONDAY, JUNE 27 Red Bluff Head Injury Recreational Entity, 10 a.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Coyne Center, Rusty, 529-2059 Key to Life, 6 p.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Suite 101, 528-8066 Line Dancing for Beginners, 9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., 1500 S. Jackson St., Free, 527-8177. Intermediate class 10:15-11:15 a.m. Masterworks Chorale Rehearsal, 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m., Red Bluff Presbyterian Church, 838 Jeffer- son St., 527-4203 Red Bluff Community Band Summer Con- certs in the Park, 8 p.m., Red Bluff River Park Monday nights through Aug. 29, 727-8744 Red Bluff Community Center Auxiliary, 1:30 p.m., 1500 S. Jackson St. Red Bluff Garden Club Annual Picnic, 12:30 p.m. social, 1 p.m. program and meeting, 384- 1913 or www.redbluffgardenclub.com Salvation Army Writing Class, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 940 Walnut St., 527-8530 Sun Country Quilters Community Service Group, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Suite 101, 528-8066 Sun Country Quilters Guild Meeting, 7 p.m., Westside Room, Red Bluff Community and Senior Center, 1500 S. Jackson St. TeenScreen Mental Health Appointments, 10 a.m.to 2 p.m., free, by appointment only, Youth Empow- erment Services, 1900 Walnut St., 527-8491, Ext.3012 Corning Alcoholics Anonymous, noon Monday through Friday, 5 p.m. Thursday, 7 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday, 783 Solano St., behind the Church Corning Healthcare District, 6 p.m., District Conference Room, 275 Solano St. Healthcare District, 6 p.m., district office build- ing, 145 Solano St., conference room Narcotics Anonymous, and 7 p.m., 815 First St., 824-114 or 586-0245. Meetings daily through Saturday, additional meeting noon Mondays Sewing group, 9 a.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Spanish Adult Education, 5 p.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824- 7670 Strategies for Success, Life Skill classes, 1:30 p.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Rancho Tehama School Readiness Play Group, 3-4 p.m., chil- dren 4 and younger, free, Rancho Tehama Ele- mentary School, 384-7833 TUESDAY, JUNE 28 Red Bluff Alzheimer’s and dementia support group, 6 p.m., Lassen House, 705 Luther Road, 529-2900 Cribbage Club, 6:30 p.m., Rio Vista Mobile Estates. Call Jerold 527-6402 for more information. First Five Tehama, 3-5 p.m. Tehama County Department of Education, 1135 Lincoln St. International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, 6:45 p.m., Masonic Hall 822 Main St. 527-6715 PAL Kickboxing, 6 p.m., 1450 Schwab St., 529- 8716 or 200-3950 Pinochle for Seniors, 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., 1500 So. Jackson St., Free, 527-8177 Playtime Pals Playgroup, 9:30 a.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Suite 101, 528-8066 Red Bluff Rotary, noon, Elks Lodge Senior Fitness, 8-9 a.m., 1500 S. Jackson St., free, 527-8177 Take Off Pounds Sensibly — TOPS, 10 a.m., First United Methodist Church, 525 David Ave., 824-0556 or 529-1414 Tehama County Board of Supervisors, 10 a.m., board chamber, 727 Oak St. Tehama County Tea Party Patriots,6 p.m., Grange Hall, 20794 Walnut St. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1932, 7 p.m. Veterans Building, Oak St. Weight Watchers meeting, 9 a.m., 6 p.m., weigh-in starts half-hour before meetings, 485 Antelope Blvd., #N, next to Bud’s Jolly Kone, 1- 800-651-6000 Corning City Council, 7:30 p.m., City Hall, 794 Third St. Disabled American Vets, 7 p.m., Veterans Memorial Hall, 1620 Solano St. Domestic Violence Information and Support Group (Spanish language), 10 a.m. to Noon, Olive Room at the Corning Healthcare District, 275 Solano St. 528-0226. Jewelry beading class, 9:30 a.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824- Lotto numbers SACRAMENTO (AP) — The winning num- bers drawn Wednesday night in the California Lottery’s ‘‘SuperLotto Plus’’ game were: 9-16-27-34-45 Meganumber: 21 How to chase away the dark cloud of doom Has the current state of the econo- my planted a little dark cloud over your head that follows you wherever you go? Over- whelmed by stress and worry that your job might be the next to go? Some experts, as report- ed in the United Kingdom's Daily Mail, suggest an unlikely remedy: Throw a tantrum. They say screaming and shouting expels negative energy caused by stress and that an all-out tantrum will make you feel better. With all due respect to the experts across the pond, I'd like to suggest five more reasonable ways to chase away the dark clouds: 1) Take control of your thoughts. I don't care what the subject matter is, if you immerse yourself in it every day by watching it on cable news, reading about it in the newspaper and talking about it with everyone you see -- you will begin to think about it all the time. Your thoughts determine your actions, and your actions dictate your behavior. These days, the media are having a field day with what's going on in Washington, D.C., and on Wall Street. You don't have to be a willing recipient. Choose your thoughts by monitoring what you put into your mind. 2) Launch into austerity. What would you do starting right now if you got notice that your job will be eliminated in six months? You'd start saving like crazy and eliminating unnecessary spend- ing, and you'd probably dust off your resume. Do that right now. Start living as if that is going to happen. 3) Pay off debt. Now, more than ever, you need to rid yourself of your high-interest credit- card debt. Even though credit card companies have new rules they're sup- posed to operate under, they're trying just about every sneaky trick they can to get money from their customers. Get your Rapid Debt-Repayment Plan in place, and get going. 4) Keep a balanced perspective. Memorize a few statistics, and then emblazon them on your frontal lobe to arm yourself against the onslaught of gloom: 1) During the Great Depres- sion the jobless rate jumped to 25 per- cent. We have yet to reach 10 percent in this current go-round. 2) Bank fail- ures wiped out the life savings of mil- Mary Hunt Everyday Cheapskate lions of people -- not hedge funds or risky investments. To date, not one person has lost a nickel in an FDIC- insured bank account, and 3) Some 44 percent of all mortgages were delin- quent by 1934, compared with about 8 percent today. 5) Love the job you're in. Instead of worrying about losing your job, redirect that wasted energy into becoming the last employee your boss would ever let go. Start con- cerning yourself with the needs of the company. Dig in, and do more than is expected. Be the first to arrive and the last to leave. Instead of feeling entitled to every last drop of benefit you can wring out of the system, find new ways you can con- tribute to make your work- place an oasis of joy and optimism. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com and author of 18 books, including her best-selling classic "Debt-Proof Living." You can email her at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2135, Paramount, CA 90723. DFG California Outdoors Q&As By CARRIE WILSON California Department of Fish and Game Marine Biol- ogist What To Do About Increasing Mountain Lion Attacks? Question: I am looking for some information on the seriousness of the apparent increase in mountain lion attacks in the news lately. There have been several incidents of bears attacking humans, and we have a bear season. I'm wondering if it might not be time to recon- sider having a mountain lion season? I understand that more mountain lions are killed each year now with depredation permits than were ever killed with a mountain lion season. What can you tell me about the population increase in mountain lions in California in the past 10 years or so? Would it require legislation to overturn the existing law? Would Depart- ment of Fish and Game (DFG) data support the need for such a reversal? (Bill T.) Answer: It’s important to note that mountain lion (puma) attacks on humans are very rare. In the last decade, there have been only four confirmed attacks in California, three of which were nonfatal. Though you may be seeing more media coverage of mountain lion attacks on domestic animals, there’s no evidence that the number of these incidents is increasing. While DFG does not formally track the num- ber of domestic animals killed by pumas, we do keep track of the number of depredation permits issued for problem mountain lions. The numbers of depredation permits issued and resulting pumas killed have actually been fewer in recent years, though (www.dfg.ca.gov/news/issu es/lion/depredation.html ). According to Marc Kenyon, DFG’s Statewide Coordinator for Bear, Mountain Lion and Wild Pig Programs, keeping track of those permits is key. Since the original moratori- um was placed on mountain lion hunting in California in 1972, DFG has been unable to assess the statewide puma population size in the tradi- tional way (by inputting har- vest numbers and age and gender ratios into statistical models). Researchers have attempted to develop indi- rect count methods over the years, but none have proven to be cost-effective with widespread applicability. Hence, Kenyon relies on the annual number of depre- dation permits as an index to the statewide population size. It’s a logical assump- tion that as the number of permits decreases, so too does the puma population. He believes the puma popu- lation is following this index, and the population size is, in fact, smaller than it was 10 years ago. This trend in the puma population closely follows the trend in the statewide deer popula- tion, as depicted on DFG’s website (www.dfg.ca.gov/wildlife/h unting/deer/population.html ). When viewing this website, note the simi- larity in the curves depicted on the graphs from the years 1972-2000, understanding that predator and prey popu- lations traditionally cycle with a three to four year lag (the predators lag behind the prey). The California Wildlife Protection Act of 1990 (Proposition 117) placed the current ban on puma hunt- ing in California. According to the language in the Act, a four-fifths vote by both houses of the Legislature is required to approve any amendment to the Act. The Act further states (in Section 8): "Any amendment of this act shall be consistent with, and further the purposes of, this act..." which essentially means that no amendment shall reverse the Act's intent. A 1996 ballot measure, Proposition 197, asked vot- ers whether the specially protected status of the mountain lion afforded by Proposition 117 should be repealed and the species managed by the Fish and Game Commission like all other mammals. This mea- sure failed with a vote of 58 percent opposed, 42 percent support. It is difficult to answer your last question regarding the data supporting a need to reverse the legislation. We have data that documents puma densities in a few Uni- versity-sponsored study locations throughout the state. We have puma depre- dation and public safety incident data. We have deer (prey) numbers throughout the years. We have habitat availability models. Howev- er, the amount of data need- ed to adequately support this type of legislative action is subjective. Kenyon says that he suspects any such pro- posal would be highly con- troversial. Spearfishing rockfish and lingcod after dark? Question: Can rockfish and lingcod be taken by spearfishing after dark? (Brian S.) Answer: Yes, you may spearfish for rockfish and lingcod at night, except in San Francisco Bay(Califor- nia Code of Regulations Title 14, section 27.56). Is it legal to keep live wild pigs on private prop- erty? Question: Are there cir- cumstances under which a California resident can keep live wild pigs on their prop- erty? Where can I find a reg- ulation that addresses this? (Mike A.) Answer: It is not lawful for a California resident to possess wild pigs (Sus scro- fa) (CCR Title 14, section 671(c)(2)(Q)). However, there is an exception for Sus scrofa domestica, also known as the domesticated pig one commonly sees on a farm (CCR Title 14, section 671(c)(2)(Q)(1)). Check Station Operations to Change for 2011-2012 Waterfowl Hunting Season The California Depart- ment of Fish and Game (DFG) advises hunters to plan ahead during the upcoming 2011-2012 waterfowl season in Califor- nia. Check stations at Type A Wildlife Areas will no longer sell passes or any license items on-site. Hunters will need to make all such purchases in advance. One-day passes, which were formerly available only at waterfowl check sta- tions, as well as two-day and season passes and stamps, must be purchased from DFG license agents or license sales offices through DFG’s new Automated Nicole Richardson Salon Bella Dona Full Service Salon June Special 30% OFF Located next to any service. Bud’s Jolly Cone Call for appt. 527-4843 (exp. June 30, 2011) COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR All makes and models. We perform dealer recommened 30K, 60K, 90K SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES Smog Check starting at $ (most cars and pick-ups) 2595 + cert. Pass or FREE retest 527-9841 • 195 S. Main St. License Data System (ALDS) prior to the shoot day. Daily hunting permits will not be issued at Type A Wildlife Areas without proof of a pre-paid one-day, two-day or season pass for the 2011-2012 waterfowl check station. Type B Wildlife Areas will still require proof of a season pass for issuance of a daily hunting permit. Through ALDS, licens- es, stamps, permits and passes are printed instantly at DFG license sales offices and approximately 1,500 license agent locations. The first time a customer pur- chases a license via ALDS their customer information and hunter education certifi- cation is stored in the ALDS database, making future transactions quicker and easier. Hunters and anglers may now conveniently purchase most license items online at www.dfg.ca.gov/Online- Sales. To purchase a hunting license online, proof of com- pletion of a hunter education course must be on file with DFG. If proof of hunter edu- cation is not on file, the pur- chaser must present proof in person at a license agent or DFG license sales office prior to purchasing a hunt- ing license. The 2011-2012 water- fowl hunting season will open in October. To find a license agent near you, to purchase items online, or for more information on ALDS, please visit www.dfg.ca.gov/licensing. For more information on licenses, stamps, reserva- tions and passes for water- fowl hunting, please visit www.dfg.ca.gov/licens- ing/waterfowl/. FREE Sonar/Fish Finder Seminar Learn how to maximize the benefit of your unit. Intermediate Level Course Thursday, June 30th 5:30 PM Lots of Free Giveaways Call for info. (530) 529-3877 501 MADISON ST., RED BLUFF Located inside Reynolds Ranch & Farm Supply

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