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2A Daily News – Thursday, October 27, 2011 Community people&events LM Elementary Carnival The Los Molinos Elementary Booster Club will again be hosting its annual Halloween Carnival from noon to 3 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 29, at the school, 7700 Stanford Ave in Los Molinos. The public is invited to attend this festive event featuring over 15 game booths, including three newly intro- duced this year, where children can win tickets to purchase items from our well stocked prize room. The event also features a costume contest at 1pm with winners in several age categories, bingo for children and adults at 50 cents per card with terrific prizes, and delicious food offerings like pizza, nachos, and snow cones. Wrist- bands for unlimited play will be just $5 each and are avail- able to children eighth grade and younger. This is the carni- val you won't want to miss! For more information call Los Molinos Elementary School at 384-7903. Moose Halloween party Red Bluff Moose 2002 Family Center, 11745 Highway 99W, in Red Bluff is holding its annual Kids Halloween party noon to 2 p.m. on Oct. 29. The event is for one-year- olds to 13-year-olds. There will be free lunch, pizza and cookies, lots of games and prizes and every one gets a free bag of Trick Or Treat candy. For more information call 690-3351. Halloween Carnival Home Depot, 2650 Main St., is holding a Halloween Car- nival from 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30. There will be games, a costume contest, a dance contest, children's workshop and face painting. The public is invited to attend. Treat Street Plans are well underway for the annual Treat Street in downtown Red Bluff, which will be 2-6 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 31. The Downtown Red Bluff Business Association and many of its business/merchant members have teamed up to provide a safe and fun Halloween adventure for kids. It's easy to join in the fun. Simply wear a costume, dig out your candy bag, snag a parent and get ready to stroll down- town Halloween-style. More than 30 businesses are slated to participate in this year's downtown Treat Street route. Be on the lookout for special posters in the windows of participating businesses. 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. Nurture those tiny alligators By SHARON KESSEY If you see what looks like a minia- ture dark alligator with tiny orange markings crawling on a stem or leaf of one of your plants, cheer it on and give it room. It's probably a larval ladybug. One of the best insects to encour- age in the garden is the ladybug, that roundish little beetle with the red (or orange, gray, black, yellow, brown, or pink) wing covers often with black spots. There are more than 5000 species of ladybugs worldwide and more than 500 in the United States. In California we have about 150 species, including genera such as Hippodamia, Coccinella, Harmonia, and Exo- chomus, among others. A ladybug is an eager consumer of such pests as aphids, scale, and mites, and the larval form is even more vora- cious than the adult. So it's important to know what its different forms look like so one of them doesn't accidental- ly get squished. The familiar female lays its tiny yel- low or golden eggs in a cluster of ten or fifteen, under a leaf that is usually near some aphids. Depending on the weath- er the eggs hatch in one to three weeks and the larva eats the egg case then starts eating aphids. It is this "in-star" larval stage that looks like a tiny alligator. Ranging in size from less than an eighth of an inch, it grows as it enthusiastically consumes unwanted aphids off the garden plants and molts half a dozen times over a couple of weeks, before fastening itself to a stable structure, as a roundish pupa, where it stays for another couple of weeks before metamorphosing into the adult form. How long each stage takes depends on the temperature, humidity, food eaten, and what species it is. Usually the egg, larval and pupa stages each last from one to three weeks, and the adult lives three to nine months, or up to two years, becoming inactive at tempera- tures below 55 degrees F. A ladybug is not poisonous, but if it senses danger it will release a small amount of its smelly yellow blood as a defense, or it may play dead. Several predators will eat it anyway, if they are not offended by the color, smell, or blood -- birds such as swal- lows and crows; insects including drag- onflies, parasitic wasps, and ants; and tree frogs, anoles, and various para- sites. Because the ladybug is one of the helpful insects to have in our gardens, we need to do all we can to encourage its survival … even when it look like an alligator. The Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with Cascade District Garden Club; California Garden Clubs, Inc; Pacific Garden Clubs and National Garden Clubs Inc. Lassen Park announces winner D NEWSAILY HOW TO REACH US RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 VOLUME 126, NUMBER 291 On the Web: www.redbluffdailynews.com MAIN OFFICE: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Main Phone (530) 527-2151 Outside area 800-479-6397 545 Diamond Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ Fax: (530) 527-5774 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. 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Rube Testifies Today at Murder Trial in Behalf of Own Case Marion Rube testified in his own behalf in Superi- or Court here today at his trial on the charge of slay- ing Oscar McCardle in the Corning district. Pierce Ryan of counsel for the defense called him to the wit- ness stand shortly before noon recess, and the early part of his evidence, on direct examination, was cal- culated to show that Rube had no motive for killing McCardle. — Oct. 27, 1921 Lassen Volcanic National Park Superin- tendent Darlene Koontz announced that the win- ning entry for the 2012 Lassen Annual Pass photo contest was sub- mitted by I-Ting Chiang of Fremont. The mag- nificent photograph entitled, "Painted Dunes from atop Cinder Cone" showcases Lassen Vol- canic National Park and its awesome volcanic scenery. The Lassen Annual Pass photo contest is held annually and is open to the public. The winning photograph was selected by park employees and volun- teers from over 100 sub- missions. Chiang will receive photo credit and a $50 gift certificate from the Lassen Associ- ation to use at one of the park bookstores, and his photo will be featured on the 2012 Lassen ADOPT A NEW FRIEND FROM TEHAMA ANIMAL CARE CENTER PET ADOPTION THIS SATURDAY! OCTOBER 29, 2011 • 9:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M. TRACTOR SUPPLY 249 S. MAIN STREET, RED BLUFF Annual Pass. To view the 2012 winning photo, please visit the park website at: http://www.nps.gov/lav o/parknews/winner-of- 2012-annual-pass-con- test.htm The photo contest for the 2013 Lassen Annual Pass will run again next summer. Photographs may be submitted begin- ning May 1 and no later than Sept. 7, 2012. For more information, please contact the fee office at (530) 595- 6120. The $25 Lassen Annual Pass is valid for one year from the month of purchase and is also honored at Whiskey- town National Recre- ation Area. The 2012 pass will be available for purchase in the new year at the southwest area of the park or online through the park website at http://www.nps.gov/lav o/planyourvisit/feesan- dreservations.htm or http://www.pay.gov. The Lassen Volcanic Annual Pass is part of the Federal Lands Recreation Enhance- ment Act, which enables Lassen Volcanic Nation- al Park to retain 80 per- cent of fees collected through the selling of passes and the collec- tion of entrance fees. These funds pay for needed repairs and pro- jects to improve visitor services and facilities. For more informa- tion, please contact the park at (530) 595-6100 or for TDD at (530)595- 3480, Monday through Friday, except holidays, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or visit the park website at www.nps.gov/lavo.