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Youngpeoplewithphysi- cal disabilities will be mak- ing Chico State University their home June 21-27 as they participate in the 30th annual Ability First Sports Camp on campus. The camp is committed to enhancing the quality of life for its campers as they learn sports fundamen- tals and experience ath- letic competition. Camp- ers also gain skills in com- pleting daily life activities and are exposed to college life, including how to obtain scholarships. The weeklong sports camp, for students ages 8-17, will provide oppor- tunities to engage in a va- riety of sports including adapted aquatics, basket- ball, cycling, quad rugby, rock climbing, soccer, ten- nis, track and field and wa- ter skiing. "Ability First Sports Camp makes a significant impact on the athletes," said Laura McLachlin, co- director of Ability First and professor in the Recreation, Hospitality, and Parks Management Department. "They leave camp more con- fident, more aware of re- sources in their own com- munities and motivated to pursue a college degree. They are more likely to pur- sue sports upon returning home and feel more inde- pendent in their daily life skills." The program costs $900 and includes room and board, instruction and equipment. The program will also have on-site nurses around the clock to help with any medical issues. Counselors include stu- dents from the kinesiol- ogy and recreation, hospi- tality and parks manage- ment departments as well as students from the Boys and Girls Clubs of the North Valley. All coaches are current or former athletes with dis- abilities who specialize in a particular sport. Paraplegic big-wave surfer Christiaan Bailey, a professional surfer from Santa Cruz, has been coaching at Ability First for the past seven years. "No matter where I am in the world, I always make the trip back every year to coach at Ability First Sports Camp," he said in a testi- monial on the Ability First website. "The Ability First staff are among the most expe- rienced and fun-loving peo- ple I've ever had the plea- sure of working with. The kiddos become part of our extended family and it's an honor to be able to play my small part in having such a positive and fundamental impact on their lives." For more information on Ability First, visit www. abilityfirstsports.org/. CHICO Sportscampwelcomes youth with disabilities COURTESYPHOTOBYJASONHALLEY Ability First camper Christian Humber is assisted by volunteer Delphine Winter during the 2014camp. By Shirley Felder Yes, it has happened again. Because it has happened again, friends don't make eye contact. Acquaintances cross the street and pretend they don't see you. Neighbors don't open their doors. What is this thing that happened? Well, it is zuc- chini season and once again we have planted way too many of them. Fifteen plants, as a mat- ter of fact. Zucchini ev- erywhere. Yikes! I have become quite the magician. When friends, acquaintances and neighbors see me coming again with a de- termined look in my eyes and a bag of squash in my hands, they disappear. I can seemingly produce zucchini out of thin air when I meet a stranger. Before they are aware of what is happening, they have an armful of squash and I am happily on my way. What is it about a zuc- chini that one morning it is six inches long and if you don't pick it right away, the next day it is as big as a baseball bat. As an interesting fact, the longest zucchini on re- cord was grown in On- tario, Canada on Oct. 22, 2005 and was 7 feet, 10.3 inches long. To cut down on an over abundance of squash, they say the blossoms can be picked and fried. I tried that, and by the time I washed them to make sure all the bugs were out, they were a sodden mess and unfry- able. I could not even use them for garnish. Picking the blossoms did mur- der quite a few squash though. I still had an- other plan. Plan B was giving the blossoms and leaves to my tortoise, named Tommy, but he didn't know he was sup- posed to like them. He warily sniffed them and ambled away. Another failure. The plants just keep on producing no matter what I do. Zucchini, or cucur- bita pepo, a member of the cucumber and melon family, originated in the Americas thousands of years ago, but the squash called zucchini we know now is a variety devel- oped in Italy. It means "little squash" in Ital- ian. Zucchini is treated as a vegetable, but bo- tanically it is a fruit. The first records of zuc- chini in the United States were in the 1920s, proba- bly brought over by Ital- ian immigrants. It was little known or used in the United States un- til the early 1970s when it was made popular by "The Classic Italian Cook Book" written by an Ital- ian American chef, Mar- cella Hazan. The zucchini is now the jewel of sum- mer squashes and easily grown in our area. What is that noise I hear? It is the back door quietly closing. I go in the kitchen to check. My husband has sneak- ily brought in a big bas- ket of, what else, zucchini and he has made himself scarce. I told you I was a magician and could make people disappear. "It was an itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, silver striped green zucchini; while we slumbered, what went wrong? Over- night it's two feet long; the giant, flesh-eating zucchini, or so my chil- dren say, is on the loose in the garden and they're not going back today; and what's more, they swore, they'll never eat it again anymore." Anonymous Red Bluff Garden Club is a member of Cascade District, California Garden Clubs, Inc. and Pacific Region, National Garden Clubs, Inc. RED BLUFF GARDEN CLUB Oo ps , we p la nt ed t oo many zucchinis again The 16th annual Matt Dailey Memorial Slow- pitch Softball Tourna- ment is scheduled for June 27 and 28 in Oro- ville at the Nelson Sports Complex, State Route 70 and Nelson Avenue. The double elimination tournament will host men's teams on Saturday and co-ed teams Sunday. Hamburgers, hot dogs, snacks and refreshments will be available and there will be first place and all tourney shirts awarded. Entry fee is $275 per team. To register or for more information, call Jamie Turner at 570- 2448. Since its inception, the tournament has raised more than $100,000 for the Wings of Eagles char- ity in Chico. FUNDRAISER So ball tournament supports charity Charles Dale, a well known young insurance man of this city, had an experience yesterday that has left him a sadder but wiser man; sadder in that his head has a gash in it about two inches long and his person has numerous other bruises, and wiser in the knowledge that the roadbed of railroad cross- ing is not as fixed as the law of gravity. Dale was riding his mo- torcycle at a reasonable rate of speed along Union street and started across the railroad track with- out paying any particu- lar attention to the cross- ing. During the forenoon a section crew had been en- gaged in replacing some ties and as a result the road bed was piled up in one place leaving a deep hole where it used to be. The motorcycle hit the hole and eventually Dale hit the ground, mostly with his head. He was consider- ably dazed by the fall and was assisted off the track by men who had witnessed the accident. After ascertaining that his machine was not hurt as bad as he, Dale re- mounted it and rode down to the office of a local phy- sician and had his wounds sewed up. — June 18, 1915 100 YEARS AGO... Insurance agent is sadder but wiser PLEASERECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thankyou! The following informa- tion is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Red Bluff Fire, Tehama County Sheriff's Depart- ment, Corning Police De- partment, Corning Fire, Cal Fire and California Highway Patrol logs. The s FourthStreet,Corning: Someone reported Tuesday a ernoon a blue or black drill and an extension cord were stolen sometime be- tween Monday evening and Tuesday morning. Toomes Avenue, Corn- ing: A woman at the Tehama Village Apartments reported Tuesday that she believed a caregiver was responsible for a the of Oxycodone, Klonopin and cash from her patient. Arrest Emily Ann Carlton: 27, of Red Bluff was arrested Tuesday in the 700block of Lakeside Drive and booked into Tehama County Jail on the charge of inflicting corporal injury on a spouse or cohabitant. Police were dispatched to the resi- dence a er a woman called reporting her daughter was creating a disturbance. Suspicious Solano Street, Corning: A search of the area was made, but officers were unable to locate suspects a er a man reported at 4:33p.m. Tuesday that two men on bicycles, one with no shirt and another wear- ing a dark colored shirt and a black hat on backwards, had been following his chil- dren in the area of Solano and Marguerite Avenue. Vandalism Fourth Street, Corning: Tuesday a ernoon a broken window was reported in the alley of the Corning Con- signment and Resale store. The damage was estimated at $350. Jefferson Street: A call was received about 11:15 p.m. Tuesday of a van- dalism in progress. 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