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Today REDBLUFF Celebrate Recovery:7 p.m., Bethel Assembly of God, 625Luther Road, 527-0445or 366-6298 Hospice Second Hand Store half price sale: all day, Riverside Shopping Center 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 Chamber Certified Farm- ers Market: 7:30a.m. to noon, River Park 527-6220 Frontier Village Farmers Market: 8a.m. to 1p.m., 645Antelope Blvd. 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., group tours any day by appoint- ment, 384-2595 Sunday RED BLUFF AA Live and Let Live: noon and 5:30p.m., 785 Musick St., seven days a week except Thursday meets at 8p.m. Al-Anon New Comers At Heart: 6:30-7:30p.m., Presbyterian Church of Red Bluff, 838Jefferson Road, Room 2, 690-2034 Kelly-Griggs House Mu- seum: 1-3p.m., 311Wash- ington St., group tours by appointment, 527-1129 TEHAMA Tehama County Museum: 1-4p.m., 275C St., group tours any day by appoint- ment, 384-2595 Monday RED BLUFF Community Band Con- cert: 8p.m., River Park, free 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, 900Johnson St. Head Injury Recreational Entity: 10a.m.-2p.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hos- pital, 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, 220Syca- more St. #101 PAL Martial Arts: 3-5 p.m., ages 5-18, 1005Vista Way, Ste. C, free, 529- 7950 Salvation Army Writing Class: 9:30-11:30a.m., 940Walnut St., 527-8530 Senior Writing Class: 10 a.m. to noon, Sycamore Center, 220Sycamore St., 527-5762 Sun Country Quilters Community Service Group: 9a.m. to noon, Family Resource Center, 220Sycamore St. Suite 101, 528-1126 Sun Country Quilters Guild Meeting: 7p.m., Westside Room, Communi- ty Center, 1500S. Jackson St. 528-1126 TeenScreen Mental Health Appointments: 10a.m. to 2p.m., free, by appointment, Youth Em- powerment Services, 1900 Walnut St., 527-8491, Ext. 3012 TOPS Club (take off pounds Sensibly): 8:30 a.m., First Christian Church, 926Madison Ave., 527-7541or 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 Venture Crew 1914meet- ing: 6:30-8p.m., Moose Lodge on 99W, coed ages 14-20welcome CORNING Alcoholics Anonymous: noon Monday through Friday, 5p.m. Thursday, 7 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Saturday and 1p.m. Sun- day, 783Solano St., behind the church Bingo: 5:15p.m. early bird, 6:30p.m. regular games, Maywood Grange, High- way 99W just past Liberal Avenue, 833-5343 Narcotics Anonymous: 7 p.m., 820Marin St., 824- 114or 586-0245, meetings daily through Saturday, additional meeting noon Mondays Sewing group: 9a.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Spanish Adult Education: 5p.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 Weight Watchers: weigh in 5:30p.m., meeting 6 p.m., Senior Center, corner of South and Fourth streets LOS MOLINOS Senior Dance: 7p.m., Senior Center, Josephine Street, 384-2100 Tuesday RED BLUFF Childbirth Class: 6:30- 8:30p.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Co- lumba Room, 529-8026 Cribbage Club: 6p.m., Cozy Diner, 259S. Main St., 527-6402 Fun Senior Aerobics: 8-9a.m., $1, Community Center, 1500S. Jackson St. 527-8177 PAL Kickboxing: 6p.m., 1450Schwab St., 529- 8716or 200-3950 Penny Bingo: 9:30a.m., Community Center, 1500S. Jackson St. Pinochle for Seniors: 12:30-3:30p.m., 1500S. Jackson St., free, 527- 8177 Red Bluff Derby Girls open tryouts and prac- tice: 6:30p.m., Tyler Jelly building, Tehama District Fairgrounds Red Bluff Rotary: noon, Elks Lodge Take Off Pounds Sensi- bly - TOPS: 10a.m., First United Methodist Church, 525David Ave., 824-0556 or 529-1414 Tehama County Board of Supervisors: 10a.m., board chamber, 727Oak St. Tehama County Tea Par- ty Patriots: 6p.m., Grange Hall, 20794Walnut St. WWE self defense train- ing for women: 5:30-7 p.m., 1005Vista Way, Ste. C CORNING Corning Alcoholics Anon- ymous: noon and 7p.m., 783Solano St., behind the church Dance with Juana: noon to 1p.m., Family Resource Center, 1488South St., 824-7670 Calendar Staffreports In partnership with GreenWaste of Tehama, the Tehama County Sani- tary Landfill Agency is of- fering free recycling col- lection cart rentals during events held throughout Te- hama County. The free recycling col- lection cart rental is ideal for local events such as a school fair, family reunion, birthday bash, wedding re- ception, anniversary cele- bration, fundraiser, tour- nament, community of faith gatherings, and more. As fun as festivities are, post event cleanup is time consuming and more often than not, un- pleasant. Events generate a lot of unwanted materi- als in its wake resulting in dumpsters full of bottles, cups, flyers, food scraps, and more stuff to be dis- posed. A large amount of these materials are not waste at all, but resources worth collecting for recy- cling. A little bit of pre- event planning can ease cleanup and keep valuable recyclables from ending up in the Tehama County Landfill. Common recy- clables from events in- clude plastic, glass and aluminum beverage con- tainers, cardboard, food cans, jars and trays, and paper. Make a subtle and pro- found impact during your next event and offer recy- cling. Recycling enhances events by conserving re- sources and has a positive impact in our community. To receive free recycling cart event rentals contact the agency at 528-1103. A simple request form is to be filled out and re- turned to the Agency two weeks prior to the event date. The form and more waste reduction tips are posted on the Agency's website at tehamacounty- landfill.com. Please note, events held in the City of Corning are not eligible, contact Waste Management for event re- cycling options at 824- 4700. LANDFILL Freerecyclingprogrambeingofferedforlocalevents A friend of mine is the comptroller of a small corpora- tion. As such, she is required to handle all aspects of that company's finances including payroll. She takes the op- portunity to figure and tweak the withholding from her own paycheck to reach her goal of neither owing taxes nor being due a refund on April 15. She's really smart and fortunate to be able to track this so closely. Her goal is to always come within $100 of her total tax liability after itemiz- ing her tax return. And she does. I always wince with pain when a person tells me he or she is getting thousands of dollars in a tax refund. And it's even worse when they do so with such gusto and pride — like it's some kind of savings account. A righ- teous accomplishment. And invariably these are people who carry credit- card debt, con- vinced that they need it "just in case of emergencies," followed by, "Hey, emergencies hap- pen!" It makes no sense for you to willingly over pay your taxes every payday, and then depend on credit cards to make up the shortfall when some- thing unexpected happens. Paying double-digit inter- est on a revolving credit- card balance just adds in- sult to the financial injury. Another friend, a sin- gle mother, just recently got $4,500 in the mail as a federal tax refund. She's one who struggles, de- pending heavily on her credit cards to make it through the month. Imag- ine if she would wise up and adjust her withhold- ing so that the nearly $400 monthly overage stayed in her paycheck. And imagine further that she put that $400 into a special safe place just for emergencies. She would have the $4,500 available to stay out of debt. That just may be the money she needs to live financially re- sponsibly. Instead, she finds her- self deeper in debt than she was a year ago and sees her tax refund as some kind of a windfall — found money, a gift from the government. I just don't get why peo- ple are so content to over pay their taxes and then receive not even a nickel in interest for having lent it to the government all year long. I hope you just don't get it either. If you have already or plan to receive a big re- fund in the future, do this: Divide the amount of your refund by the number of pay periods you have each year. Or if you are self-em- ployed, divide by four. This is a rough estimate of the amount you are over pay- ing each pay period, or quarterly if you pay esti- mated withholding. Make an appointment with the department or person who handles pay- roll and request to fill out a new W-4 form. Ask this person to assist you in de- termining how many de- pendents to claim to make the proper adjustment. Or go to IRS.gov and use the withholding calculator. If you are self-employed have your accountant make the adjustment to your quar- terly estimated forms. One last thing. Before you see a dime of this ad- justment in your next pay- check, take the steps neces- sary to make sure the over- age does not evaporate or become absorbed in your daily spending. Have that amount automatically de- posited into a savings ac- count so you can keep you eye on it and so it will be there when you need it. Would you like to send a tip to Mary? You can email her at mary@eve- rydaycheapskate.com, or write to Everyday Cheap- skate, P.O. Box 2099, Cy- press, CA 90630. EVERYDAY CHEAPSKATE Tax refund: Not a good thing Mary Hunt Sue Manning Associated Press CHINO HILLS Almost ev- ery horse rescue in the country is running out of room or money as they continue to be strained by an influx of abandoned equines, a trend that be- gan during the recession. Although hundreds of nonprofits nationwide care for thousands of horses, re- sources are stretched thin. When the downturn started seven years ago, some own- ers got rid of their horses, many donors discontinued contributions to horse char- ities and adoptions plum- meted. "Some nonprofits are down 50 percent," said Shir- ley Puga, executive director and founder of the Califor- nia-based National Equine Resource Network. "If you have a fixed population of animals and your donations go down 50 percent, that's a huge constraint financially." The economy has turned a corner, but things have only improved marginally for the rescues, Puga said. An astonishing number of horses are still being aban- doned and many people are still worried about their fi- nances and not ready to re- sume donating or adopting yet, she said. At the Red Bucket Equine Rescue about 50 miles east of Los Angeles, Susan Peirce has taken in old, sick, starving, feral and abandoned horses, as well as those considered too slow or lame to race. She's intercepted horses headed for legal slaughter in Mex- ico and Canada and to auc- tion in the U.S. As a result, space and cash are in short supply. Plus, the recession led to higher prices on every- thing horses need, includ- ing boarding, vets, farri- ers, feed, vitamins, elec- tricity and bedding, Peirce said. Susankelly Thomp- son, director of Mylestone Equine Rescue in Phillips- burg, New Jersey, says the story is the same there: they are full and fundraising is a constant fight. When the barns are at ca- pacity and rescue owners can't take in more animals, they will network to try to find an empty stall at an- other rescue, a foster home or with a potential adopter. The Mylestone rescue has helped or placed as many as 500 horses over the last two decades, and although the facility is full with 37 horses, "we would always make room for a starving horse," she said. She said the rescue got a boost recently after win- ning a $10,000 grant from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Money from animal wel- fare groups has helped chip away at the effects of the re- cession that started in 2007, the same year the last Amer- ican slaughterhouse closed its doors. Slaughterhouse advocates claim bringing them back would eliminate the burden on rescues. The federal government last year approved allowing plants in New Mexico, Mis- souri and Iowa to resume slaughtering horses, but their plans were blocked when Congress voted against funding the re- quired inspections. When seeking a com- panion animal, potential owners need to consider their lifestyle. They can choose a 20-pound dog or a 1,000-pound horse and decide to spend $100 or $1,000 a month. No mat- ter the choice, Peirce hopes people will turn to rescues to get their animals. Peirce's shelter, Red Bucket, named for what her rescued horses eat out of, started in Janu- ary 2009 with nine horses. Since then, it's taken in 253 horses and found homes for 133, she said. "When a horse comes to us, they get a bucket, a name and dignity," Peirce said. "And we make a prom- ise to them that it's for life." ANIMAL WELFARE Ab an done d hor se s ke ep flooding overtaxed rescues JAE C. HONG - ASSOCIATED PRESS Susan Peirce, founder of Red Bucket Equine Rescue, bonds with a rescued horse at the Red Bucket Equine Rescue in Chino Hills, Calif. FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM |LIFESTYLES | 5 A