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Monday, September 12, 2011 – Daily News 3A Local Calendar To add an upcoming event in the Local Calendar, submit information well in advance to the Daily News, attention Calendar, P.O. Box 220, Red Bluff, 96080 or e-mail to clerk@redbluffdailynews.com. Include a contact name and telephone number. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 Red Bluff 3101 Antelope 4-H, 6:30 p.m., Antelope School, 527- Cardiac Support Group, 7 p.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Columba Room, 527-5077 English as a Second Language class, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Red Bluff High School Adult Ed building, 1295 Red Bud, 736-3308, same time Tuesday and Wednes- day and 9 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Thursdays, free child- carefrom 9 a..m. to 12:20 p.m. classes in Richlieu Hall, 900 Johnson St. Head Injury Recreational Entity, 10 a.m., St. Eliz- abeth Community Hospital, Coyne Center, Rusty, 529- 2059 High school diploma prep class for adults, 3:30- 5:30 p.m., Red Bluff High School Adult Ed building, 1295 Red Bud, 736-3308, same time Tuesday and Wednesday and 3:30-6:30 p.m.Thursdays Key to Life, 6 p.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Ste. 101, 528-8066 Masterworks Chorale Rehearsal, 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m., Red Bluff Presbyterian Church, 838 Jefferson St., 527-4203 Red Bluff Community Band reharsal, 7-9 p.m., Red Bluff Presbyterian Church, 838 Jefferson St., 727- 8744 Salvation Army Writing Class, 9:30-11:30 a.m., 940 Walnut St., 527-8530 Spartan Athletic Booster Club, 6:30 p.m. Red Bluff Union High School Library Sun Country Quilters Community Service Group, 9 a.m.to 3 p.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Ste. 101, 528-8066 TeenScreen Mental Health Appointments, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., free, by appointment only, Youth Empowerment Services, 1900 Walnut St., 527-8491, Ext. 3012 Tehama County Sheriff's Search and Rescue, 7 p.m., Stillwell Training Center, Park Ave. near Baker Road. 527-7546 US citizenship preparation class, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Red Bluff High School Adult Ed building, 1295 Red Bud, 736-3308, same time Tuesday and Wednesday 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 4-H, 7 p.m., Woodson Elementary School, 527-3101 Corning Neighborhood Watch, 5:30 p.m., City Hall, 794 Third St. Dance with Juana, noon to 1 p.m., Corning Fami- ly Resource Center, 1488 South St., 824-7670. Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m., 820 Marin St., 385- 1169 or 566-5270.Meetings are everyday through Sat- urday with an additional meeting at noon on Mondays Olive 4-H, 6:30 p.m., Maywood School, 527-3101 Sewing group, 9 a.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Spanish Adult Education, 5 p.m., Family Resource Center, corner of 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 Tehama County Mental Health Stakeholders meeting, 1 p.m., Rolling Hills Casino, Carlino's Event Center Los Molinos Los Molinos 4-H, 7 p.m., Los Molinos Elementary School, 527-3101 Richfield Richfield Neighborhood Watch Program, 6:30 p.m., Richfield Fire Station, 6115 Grange, 824-6260 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Red Bluff Antelope School Board, 5:30 p.m., Antelope Dis- trict Board Room, 22600 Antelope Blvd. Community BLS/CPR class, 6 p.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Columba Room, 529-8031 Cribbage Club, 6:30 p.m., Rio Vista Mobile Estates. Call Jerold 527-6402 for more information. Fun Senior Aerobics with Linda, 8-9 a.m., $1 per class, Red Bluff Community Center, 1500 South Jack- son Street 527-8177 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 P.E.T.S.,6 p.m. Cozy Diner, South Main Street 527- 8702 Photo club, 6 p.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Ste. 101, 528-8066 Red Bluff Emblem club, dinner at 5:30 p.m., meet- ing at 7;30 p.m., Elks Lodge, 355 Gilmore Lotto numbers SACRAMENTO (AP) — The winning num- bers drawn Saturday night in the California Lottery's ''SuperLotto Plus'' game were: 7-11-15-20-342 Meganumber: 2. The North State's premier supplier of stoves STOVE JUNCTION The Over 25 years of experience NOW OPEN! Sales • Service • Installation *Wood Stoves * Pellet Stoves * Gas Stoves Tues-Sat 9am-5pm Closed Sunday & Monday 22825 Antelope Blvd., Red Bluff www.thestovejunction.com 530-528-2221 Fax 530-528-2229 ENGLAND'S BOOKKEEPING SERVICES Need help organizing your information for your tax preparer? Email acownteen@yahoo.com Call or Text 530 739-9413 SPORTING CLAY TOURNAMENT Nor Cal Jr. Clay Busters 2nd Annual September 18th Starting @ 9am Clear Creek Sporting Club @ Rolling Hills Casino Open to the public All ages welcome from 10 to 99! Anyone Over 100 yrs. Shoots FREE! Followed by a Luncheon, Award Ceremony & Raffles at Carlino's Room in the Casino FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 529-2343 IRS reaches out to small business As the upcoming filing extension tax deadlines approach, the Internal Rev- enue Service, in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Ser- vices, is announcing a new round of outreach to small employers and the profes- sional service providers they rely on to encourage review of the Small Busi- ness Health Care Tax Cred- it to see if they are eligible. The small business health care tax credit was included in the Affordable Care Act enacted last year. Small employers that pay at least half of the premiums for employee health insur- ance coverage under a qual- ifying arrangement may be eligible for the small busi- ness health care tax credit. The credit is specifically targeted to help small busi- nesses and tax-exempt organizations that primarily employ 25 or fewer work- ers with average income of $50,000 or less. Small employers face two important tax filing deadlines in coming weeks: • September 15. Corpo- rations that file on a calen- dar year basis and requested an extension to file to Sep- tember 15 can calculate the small employer health care credit on Form 8941 and claim it as part of the gener- al business credit on Form 3800, which they would include with their corporate income tax return. • October 17. Sole pro- prietors who file Form 1040 and partners and S-corpora- tion shareholders who report their income on Form 1040 and requested an extension have until October 17 to complete their returns. They would also use Form 8941 to cal- culate the small employer health care credit and claim it as a general business credit on Form 3800, reflected on line 53 of Form 1040. In addition, tax-exempt organizations that file on a calendar year basis and requested an extension to file to November 15 can use Form 8941 and then claim the credit on Form 990-T, Line 44f. As these 2010 deadlines approach and businesses begin planning for the end of 2011 and 2012, the IRS's new outreach campaign will focus on working with our partners: • The tax software indus- try to improve access to educational information and to help alert small employers and practitioners when taxpayers may be eli- gible for the credit. • Insurance agents, bro- kers and carriers who work with small businesses to help ensure that participants in the health insurance mar- ketplace understand the fea- tures and benefits of the credit. The Department of Health and Human Ser- vices today sent an email to 2,000 agents and brokers alerting them to the credit for their small business clients. • The small business and tax practitioner community to provide additional webi- nars and educational oppor- tunities about the credit. Information will also be available through social media and other venues, including IRS YouTube videos in English, Spanish and American Sign Lan- guage. Targeted e-mails and tweets will be sent to the small business commu- nity and tax preparers. The IRS's new outreach effort will remind employ- ers about the upcoming extension deadlines and will also provide details on other important information about the credit, including: • Businesses who have already filed can still claim the credit: For small busi- nesses that have already filed and later determine they are eligible for the credit, they can always file an amended 2010 tax return. Corporations use Form 1120X and individual sole proprietors use Form 1040X • Businesses without tax liability this year can still benefit: The Small Busi- ness Jobs Act of 2010 pro- vided that for Tax Year 2010, eligible small busi- nesses may carry back unused general business credits (including the small Beef 'N Brew Sept. 17, 2011 Downtown Red Bluff Microbrew, vendors Beef appetizers Tickets @ Sparrow Antiques Main St. employer health care tax credit) five years. Previous- ly these credits could only be carried back one year. Small businesses that did not have tax liability to off- set in 2010 should still eval- uate eligibility for the small business health care tax credit in light of this expanded carry back oppor- tunity. • Businesses that could- n't use the credit in 2010 can claim it in future years: Some businesses that already locked into health insurance plan structures and contributions for 2010 may not have had the opportunity to make any needed adjustments to qual- ify for the credit for 2010. So these businesses may be eligible to claim the credit on 2011 returns or in years beyond. Small employers can claim the credit for 2010 through 2013 and for two additional years begin- ning in 2014. More information about eligibility requirements and calculating the credit can be found on the Small Busi- ness Health Care Tax Cred- it for Small Employers page of IRS.gov. Let's Talk About Hair Jeannie Stroing Perm, Cut & Set Special $ 450 Antelope Blvd. Bus 528-2900 Cell 526-1304 Sept. 1st through Dec. 31st long hair extra 35 Stop consuming, start producing The dreaded disease we know today as tuberculosis was at one time simply called consump- tion. A highly contagious illness, consumption got its name from the way it takes a person's life slowly from within -- first with a bloody cough and then fever, pallor and the long, relentless wasting away. What irony that consumption, as we know it today, has an eerily similar effect. Consumption is what consumers do to excess. We buy, acquire, eat and listen. We'd rather pay to have things made and done for us. We want to be served and entertained. And, when we take it to an extreme, it eats us from within and causes a relentless econom- ic wasting away of soul, spirit and finances. If consumption is at one end of the spectrum, production is at the other. Take food, for instance. When you buy and eat food, you consume it. When you grow, store, preserve or cook, you produce it. The United States used to be the world's dominate producer. And we were also the world's dominate credi- tor. We made enough to lend to others. We produced so well that we created wealth at home and exported it to the rest of the world, too. Slowly, over many decades, that has changed. We stopped saving. We sent manufacturing overseas, deciding, instead, to deal in nonex- portable services. Now today, we have become the world's biggest debtor nation -- borrowing money to finance excessive con- sumption of imported goods, our hat in hand looking for more credit. A life of consumption stifles productivity -- the production of physical objects, experiences, rela- tionships and knowledge. You've been so busy con- suming what others have produced, you haven't taken time to be productive yourself. And the more you consume, the lazier you get. Consumers import, producers export. Consumers borrow, producers lend. Of course, we cannot eliminate consumerism altogether. Consumers are an important part of the production process. The problem arises when we're consuming more than we pro- duce. Then it becomes a crippling and addictive drug. If you are thinking about your own life as you read this, you may be ask- ing, "What can I do to start produc- ing?" Downsize. That may mean shopping at a different grocery store, moving to a cheaper area or making your own clothes or holiday gifts. Whatever you can do, get up off the couch and get busy. Save. Stop whining about Mary Hunt Everyday Cheapskate not having enough to save. Just give it up. Take $50 from your next paycheck, and put it away. Period. If that means you have to ride your bike to work, fine. Great, in fact. You will produce energy. Produce. What can you do so you don't have to buy from someone else? What skills do you have that have become dormant? Where can you give back? What can you do for oth- ers? Can't think of a thing? Look at "100 Things You Can Make Yourself" blisstree.com/thriftymommy/100- things-you-can-make-yourself/). That should get your creative juices flow- ing. You'll know you've made the transi- tion from consumer to producer the day that your exports exceed imports! Junior Round-Up Courtesy photo by PRCA photographer Larry Smith David Prior com- peting in Bull Rid- ing Saturday at the Red Bluff Junior Round-Up. Results of the event will be published when available.