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2A Daily News – Monday, September 19, 2011 Community people&events Slow Food to offer three-course meal at fair Slow Food Shasta Cascade presents the Tehama Table and Vine at the 2011 Tehama District Fair at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22. Proceeds will go to support regional awareness of our bountiful local market place. Join us in the Wine Garden for a three-course local walnut and wine inspired dinner featuring Bianchi Walnuts and a variety of Tehama County wineries. Billy's Real Food will be delighting us all with the following locally grown, raised and prepared courses: Course 1: Tehama Heirloom Caprice Bite — sum- mer fresh and yummy! Course 2: Local Pasta duo featuring walnut pesto and white walnut meatball sauces accompanied by a Rosser's olive baked cristoni and lightly brushed with Lucero olive oil. Course 3: Mary Anne's signature vanilla ice cream topped with a caramelized walnut dream drizzle The cost to get in the fair is $1 and Meal tickets, which are available at Discover Earth, 641 Main Street, in Red Bluff, are $20. More information available at 529-3856. Tickets available online at Brown Paper Tickets by visiting www.brownpapertickets.com/event/199280. Representatives from Tehama Oaks and Mt. Tehama Wineries will join for dinner. The Wine Garden opens at 4 p.m. and dinner begins about 6:30 p.m. at the Tehama District Fair- ground, 650 Antelope Blvd., in Red Bluff. Turtle Bay run set The Redding Lions are hosting the Lions Turtle Bay Run on Sunday, Oct. 2. Start times are 8:30 a.m. for the half marathon, 8:45 a.m. for the 10 K and 9 a.m. for the two mile run. For more information call Egon Harrasser at 243- 3957 or Ole Jensen at 515-9176. 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. Stupidity in the quest of 'Skinny' In the sixties, the main diet methodology was a purple collec- tion of mimeographed pages cov- ered with a lengthy list of foods and their calorie counts. Dieters were instructed to eat only 1,000 calo- ries. Not knowing how to manage our eating (or we would not have been fat), we'd scarf down our daily allotments before lunch and were then faced with two most unhappy options: a) starve the remainder of the day, or; b) quit. Either way, the process was unsuccessful. Frustrated, many opted for easier fad diets; "The Grapefruit Diet," "Egg Diet," and "Watermelon Diet," to name a few. Same results. Time marches on but stupidity is eternal; so many continue to engage in diet foolishness. Let's take a tour of some of today's more bizarre diets. (I did not make these up.) As they say, "Do not try these at home." We'll begin with the Vision Diet, based on the logic that if something looks bad, we're disinclined to eat it. So, don a pear of blue-tinted glasses all day and everything you plan to eat will look disgusting. The flaw? Well, aside from the fact that you could hurt your eyes from wearing tinted spectacles too long, the hole is that — for those of us who overeat — we aren't overly concerned with food's appearance. Let's be honest. When you're gob- bling down handfuls of three-day- old leftovers at midnight while standing in front of the refrigerator in your boxers, food presentation isn't the main criterion by which you're making culinary decisions. Next is ear stapling, whereby surgical staples are placed in the inner cartilage of the ear, supposed- ly stimulating pressure points that control appetite. (One might assume the constant stress of having sharp objects in your ear would actually cause you to eat.) In actual- ity, the body shortly gets used to it, so one reverts to old habits — or amplifies the process by adding more, developing an abnor- mal attraction to office products. While on the subject of body altering, make some noise for the Tongue Patch, whereby a one-inch square of mesh is sewn onto your tongue. Unlike medical patches, it contains no medicine. Instead, it merely makes it difficult — even painful — to eat solid food, so the dieter literally starves herself. But wait! There's more! For $1,500 or more, you get the further benefits of possible choking and nerve damage. Of course, once the patch is removed, old habits return, albeit with a strong craving to chew on your pants. Scott Q. Marcus nutritional value in these not-found- in-nature foodstuffs, you might as well engage in an all-chocolate or all-vodka diet for the same results. Finally, winning the "most disgusting award" is The Tapeworm Diet, illegal in the U.S., but still offered elsewhere. One ingests beef tape- worm cysts, which even- tually interfere with digestion and absorption of nutrients, generating significant weight loss. Once goal weight is reached, an antibiotic is given, which kills the tapeworm so it can be expelled. Aside from the "yick factor," other side effects can include cysts in the liver, eyes, brain, and spinal cord with poten- tially lethal consequences. However, just thinking about that is enough to squelch one's appetite causing a drop of a few pounds — so maybe it does work after all. Other examples of dietary dumb- ness include the Cigarette Diet; you smoke instead of eat. Total weight loss is determined by how much your lungs weigh upon removal. The Cotton Ball Diet involves swal- lowing cotton balls to fill up before eating. One could accomplish the same objective by consuming paper — while having the added benefit of helping to recycle trash. Feed your sweet tooth with The Twinkie Diet. Twinkies, day and night, night and day. Since there is insignificant About the author: Scott "Q" Marcus is a professional speaker and the CRP of www.ThisTimeIMeanIt.com, a website for people and organizations who are frustrated with making promises and are ready to make a change. Sign up for his free newsletter at the site or friend him at facebook.com/thistimeimeanit. He is also available for coaching and speaking engagements at 707.442.6243 or scottq@scottqmarcus.com. Student Art Contest Thanks to downtown Red Bluff businesses, including Discover Earth, Plum Crazy, Prairie Rose and Wink, the 11th annual Tehama County Student Art Contest has increased its Best of Show award to $100. 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Tourist Declares California Has Bad Reputation Up in Shasta County Saturday a tourist from New York had another tourist arrested for speeding around a corner and almost crashing into the New Yorker. It now develops that the gentleman who swore out the com- plaint asserts that he is making a trip through the West under the auspices of the New York automobile associ- ation, and that he is particularly commissioned to study the habits of the automobile drivers on the highways of California. According to his own statement, California has a bad reputation in New York for reckless driving. — September 19, 1921 Community Clip? e-mail: clerk@redbluffdailynews.com or Fax: 527-9251 ENGLAND'S BOOKKEEPING SERVICES Need help organizing your information for your tax preparer? Email acownteen@yahoo.com Call or Text 530 739-9413 Many other great prizes will be awarded to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each of four grade divisions on Oct. 8. This year's theme is "Cos- mic Wonders" and Tehama County students in grades K-12 are encouraged to participate. Art Contest forms and rules are available at the Red Bluff-Tehama Coun- ty Chamber of Com- merce, 100 Main St. Red Bluff, Los Molinos Chamber of Commerce, 7904 Hwy 99E, Los Moli- nos, Corning Chamber of Commerce, 1110 Solano St. Corning, Sacred Heart School, 2255 Monroe St. in Red Bluff and on the Courtesy photo Pictured, from left, are Keri Campbell of Prairie Rose, Mary Jayne Eidman of Discover Earth and Janell Fitzgerald of Plum Crazy. These are three of the downtown Red Bluff business owners who have graciously contributed to the 11th annual Tehama County Student Art Contest. Tehama County Arts Council website www.tehamaarts.org. Forms were sent to each Jr. Livestock Auction 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. Sept, 24th • 10:00 am Champions 1pm Sale of See you there! Tehama County school in August. The deadline for entry submission is 4 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 27, to Sacred Heart School in Red Bluff. Entries will be displayed at the Tehama District Fairground Home Arts Building on Satur- day, Oct. 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. At noon there will be an artists reception officiated by Venita Philbrick and Mayor Bob Carrel, where winners will be announced and prizes awarded. Entries will be judged by the Red Bluff Art Association on originality and creativity. The win- ning entries will be mat- ted by the Big Picture; the Best of Show will be mat- ted and framed. Sponsors include Red Bluff Art Association, Sacred Heart School, Tehama County Arts Council, The Big Picture, Discover Earth, Mike and Louise Stovich, Norm's Printing, Philbrick Family Trust, Plum Crazy, Prairie Rose and Wink. For more information, call Lisa at 527-6807.