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Homecoming festivities begin with the parade at 3 p.m. Friday, starting at 3rd Street and continuing west on Solano to Houghton. There will be a turkey dinner for alumni at the cafeteria 4-7 p.m., and the cost is $6. Golden grads get in free. The JV game starts at 5:30 p.m. and between the JV and Varsity games there will be an introduction of the Golden Grads and the parade of floats. During the varsity half-time they will have the coronation of Homecoming Queen and her court. CorningintheEvening Please take note that Corning in the Evening will not be this Thursday, but will be next Thurs- day, Oct. 16, at 5:30 p.m. The new Corning Health Center, formerly Corning Medical Associates, will host this event, and we hope that you will attend. This is an opportunity to meet with other chamber members as well as inter- ested citizens and find out what is happening in the community. You are also welcome to make any an- nouncements about your business or club. Come and see what is new at Corning Health Center, 155 Solano St. You will want to know what has changed and will stay the same. Hometown Christmas Lighted Parade Postcards have gone out to those who have partici- pated in the chamber-or- ganized parades to save the date. As a reminder, there will be no vendors and other activities during the day this year, so we want to concentrate on having a great Lighted Parade and Tree Lighting ceremony af- ter the parade. The parade will start at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 6. We hope that you will participate this year and make it a great parade. Ev- eryone is welcome to enter. For rules and entry forms see the chamber website at www.corningcachamber. org. Business and Volunteer of the Year Nominations are open for Chamber Business and Volunteer of the Year. These awards will be presented at the annual Installation Din- ner Jan. 24, 2015. The award is selected based in part on the following criteria: Stay- ing power — a substantial history as an established business; growth in num- ber of employees — a bench mark to judge the impact of the business on the job mar- ket; increase in sales and or unit volume — an indication of continued growth; inno- vative products or services — illustration of the creativ- ity and imagination of the nominee; response to ad- versity — example of prob- lems faced in the nominee's business and the methods used to solve them; contri- bution by nominees to aid community oriented proj- ects — through the use of his or her personal time and other resources. To nominate a business or individual, submit a one- page letter outlining how the nominee deserves to be honored to 1110 Solano St., Corning 96021. Or you may email it to info@corningca- chamber.org. We are also receiving names for Volunteer of the Year. They should be chamber members and in some substantial way, have benefited the com- munity. CORNINGCHAMBER Homecomingfestivitiesstartwithparade Good Morning, Red Bluff is scheduled for 7:50-9 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 30 at Red Bluff Dodge. Are you attending the most popular networking event in town? Meet and network with more than 60 local business owners and their employees at Good Morning, Red Bluff the last Thursday of the month. This month we will be meeting at Red Bluff Dodge, which will be dishing up a full breakfast. New members Liquor & Food, (530) 528- 2721, 15 Antelope Blvd., Red Bluff; Rape Crisis Interven- tion & Prevention, 530- 529-3980, 723 Pine St., Red Bluff; UpState Hearing In- struments, (530) 243-7307, 332 Pine St., Ste. G, Red Bluff; Echo Whiskey Tacti- cal Training LLC, (877) 800- 4199, 21435 Wilcox Road, Red Bluff; U-Haul Moving & Storage of Red Bluff, (530) 366-3143, 2950 Main St., Red Bluff; Ice it!, (805) 815- 5148, 410 S. Main St., Red Bluff; GTI Solar, (530) 377- 5116, 20645 Gas Point Road, Cottonwood; Restaurant & Mariscos Playa Azul, (530) 527-4227, 200 S. Main St., Red Bluff. RED BLUFF CHAMBER Networking event set at car dealership RICHGREENE—DAILYNEWS The Red Bluff-Tehama County Chamber of Commerce held a voters night Monday at the Veterans Hall in Red Bluff. Pictured, from le , are supervisor candidates Sandy Bruce and Candy Carlson and City Council candidates Daniele Jackson, Orville Knox, Rob Schmid and Larry Stevens. Ice it! will hold its grand opening at noon Saturday, Oct. 18 in the Riverside Shopping Center on South Main Street in Red Bluff. A casual dinner with new friends led to a con- versation about favorite foods and desserts and a double date quickly turned into a business venture after realizing everyone had a passion for shaved ice. Not a snow cone, but shaved ice, shaved so finely that it melts in your mouth. Now combine the snow with premium ice cream and you get the perfect combination, a refreshing creamy treat — Ice it! These unique shaved ice treats, although not avail- able in Red Bluff until Oct. 18, are common in Hawaii. Flavors range from root beer float — vanilla bean ice cream and frosted with sweetened condensed milk to make it extra creamy — to sugar free flavors of wa- termelon and pineapple side by side. Shaved ice is available with or without ice cream. There are more than 30 flavors of ice and 12 different ice creams for almost unlimited possibil- ities. The shop is on South Main Street next to the movie theater in Red Bluff. Bright blue water move- ment tiles on the floor are unique and make for fun conversations right when you walk in the door. There are flat screen TVs on the walls playing ex- treme sports clips, outlets to charge cell phones and free Wi-Fi. In order to give back to the community, the shop is partnering with schools and local teams to provide incentives for students. The grand opening cer- emony is scheduled for noon Saturday, Oct. 18. GRAND OPENING Shaved ice and ice cream shop to open in Red Bluff By Steve Rothwell TheAssociatedPress NEW YORK The pros- pects of weakening global growth weighed on the stock market Tuesday. U.S. growth may be strengthening, but the outlook elsewhere is far less encouraging. On Tuesday the International Monetary Fund trimmed its forecast for global eco- nomic growth. A surpris- ingly weak report on in- dustrial production in Germany, Europe's big- gest economy, added to the concerns. Industrial companies, whose fortunes are closely tied those of the global economy, led the sell-off. Government bonds ral- lied as investors snapped up safe assets, pushing the yield on the benchmark 10- year Treasury note close to its lowest level of the year. After a weak Septem- ber, the slump in stocks is showing no signs of abat- ing in October. The Stan- dard & Poor's index has now dropped almost 4 per- cent since closing at a re- cord Sept. 18. "Investors have become a bit more cautious about earnings and about the pace of global growth," said Kate Warne, a prin- cipal at Edward Jones, an investment firm. "That reassessment is leading to a bit more caution on stocks." The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 29.72 points, or 1.5 percent, to 1,935.10. The index closed at a re- cord 2,011.36 on Sept. 18. The Dow Jones indus- trial average dropped 272.52 points, or 1.6 per- cent, to 16,719.39. The Nas- daq composite fell 69.60 points, or 1.6 percent, to 4,385.20. General Motors was among the biggest declin- ers in the S&P 500 after analysts at Morgan Stan- ley cut their price target for the stock. The ana- lysts predict that the au- tomaker's earnings will suffer as it invests heavily in production. GM's stock dropped $1.98, or 5.9 per- cent, to $31.77. WALL STREET St oc ks c on ti nu e slide over global gr ow th c on ce rn s The Associated Press NEWYORK Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to eliminate health insurance coverage for some of its part-time U.S. employees in a move aimed at controlling rising health care costs of the nation's largest private employer. Wal-Mart said that start- ing Jan. 1, it will no longer offer health insurance to employees who work less than an average of 30 hours a week. The move affects 30,000 employees, or about 5 percent of Wal-Mart's to- tal part-time workforce, but comes after the company al- ready had scaled back the number of part-time work- ers who were eligible for health insurance coverage since 2011. The announcement fol- lows similar decisions by Target, Home Depot and others to completely elimi- nate health insurance bene- fits for part-time employees. It also comes a day after Wal-Mart said it is teaming up with an online health in- surance agency called Di- rectHealth.com to help cus- tomers shop for health in- surance plans. "We had to make some tough decisions," Sally Wel- born, Wal-Mart's senior vice president of benefits, told The Associated Press. Welborn said she didn't know how much Wal-Mart will save by dropping part- time employees, but added that the company will use a third-party organization to help part-time workers find insurance alternatives. The announcement comes after Wal-Mart said far more U.S. employees and their families are en- rolling in its health care plans than it had expected following rollout of the Af- fordable Care Act, which re- quires big companies to of- fer coverage to employees working 30 hours or more a week or face a penalty. It also requires most Ameri- cans to have health insur- ance or pay a penalty. Wal-Mart, which employs about 1.4 million full- and part-time U.S. workers, says about 1.2 million Wal-Mart workers and family mem- bers combined now partic- ipate in its health care plan. And that has had an impact on Wal-Mart's bottom line. Wal-Mart now expects the impact of higher health care costs to be about $500 million for the current fiscal year, or about $170 million higher than the original es- timate of about $330 mil- lion that it gave in February. But Wal-Mart is among the last of its peers to cut health insurance for some part-time workers. In 2013, 62 percent of large retail chains didn't offer health care benefits to any of its part-time workers, accord- ing to Mercer, a global con- sulting company. That's up from 56 percent in 2009. "Retailers who offer part- time benefits are more of an exception than the rule," says Beth Umland, director of research for health and benefits at Mercer. 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