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Saturday, February 4, 2012 – Daily News 3A Local Calendar Submit calendar items to P.O.Box 220, Red Bluff, 96080 or clerk@redbluffdailynews.com. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Red Bluff BMX racing, 5:30 p.m., Red Rock BMX Track, Tehama District Fairground, $10 Red Bluff Outlaws Karts Points Race 11- Autism Awareness Night, 10 a.m. gates, 1 p.m. qualifying, Tehama District Fairground, 527-2477, 567-5286, www.rboutlaws.com Weight Watchers meeting, 8:30 a.m., Weigh-in starts half-hour before meetings, 485 Antelope Blvd., #N, next to Bud's Jolly Kone, 1-800-651-6000 Corning Corning Boy Scout Troop 5 Paper Drive, put papers on curb morning of, 824-3240. Alternate date if rain: Feb. 11 Los Molinos Senior Dance, 7 p.m., Senior Center, Josephine Street, 384-2100 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Red Bluff Celebrate Recovery, 6-8 p.m., Vineyard Christian Fellowship, 738 Walnut St., 527-2449 Knights of Columbus All-You-Can-Eat Break- fast, 8:30 a.m. to noon, $4 adult, $2 child or $10 fam- ily, Sacred Heart Parish Hall, 2285 Monroe St., 527- 6310 Super Bowl Pancake Breakfast, 7-11 a.m., Elks Lodge, proceeds benefit Scouting programs WHEEPicnic and Prayer Circle, 4:20 p.m., 22116 Riverside Ave. Corning Evangelist services, 7 p.m., Family Bible Church, 609 Marin St., 824-9989 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Red Bluff Bend Jelly 4-H, 6 p.m.,Bend School, 527-3101 Diabetic Support Group, 6:30 p.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Coyne Center, Columba Room 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. Fun Senior Aerobics with Linda, 8-9 a.m., $1 per class, Red Bluff Community Center, 1500 South Jack- son Street 527-8177 Head Injury Recreational Entity, 10 a.m., St. Eliz- abeth Community Hospital, Coyne Center, Rusty, 529- 2059 Key to Life, 6 p.m., Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Ste. 101, 528-8066 Line Dancing, beginners at 9 a.m.; intermediate at 10 a.m.;Community Center, 1500 S. Jackson St. Masterworks Chorale rehearsal, 6:45 p.m. to 8 p.m., Red Bluff Presbyterian Church, 838 Jefferson St., 527-4203 PAL Martial Arts, age 5 - 18, 3-5 p.m., 529-7920, www.tehamaso.org. Red Bluff Community Band rehearsal, 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 Sons in Retirement, 11:30 a.m., Riverside Cafe, 529-5700 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 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 Bingo, 5:15 p.m. early bird, 6:30 p.m. regular games, Maywood Grange, Highway 99W just past Lib- eral Avenue, 833-5343. Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m., 820 Marin St., 824- 1114 or 824-2090, meetings are every day through Saturday with an additional meeting at noon Mondays Sewing class, 9 a.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Spanish Adult Education, 5 p.m., Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Breakfast Special Homemade Chicken Fried Steak Served with 3 eggs, hash browns or home fries & toast $799 Served 6:30am-2pm 7 days a week No substitutions ORDERS TO GO 7875 HWY 99E LOS MOLINOS, CA 384-1265 Don't count on artificial sweeteners for diet Q: I have a real sweet tooth and I used to eat a lot of sugar. In an effort to curb this habit and drop a few pounds, I've turned to artificial sweeteners, but I'm worried they could be just as bad for me. What can you tell me about them — am I mak- ing a mistake? A: It's good that you're trying to control your sugar intake. Sugar comes in many forms, and all are major contributors to obe- sity and heart disease. In turn, overweight and obe- sity are tied to a whole host of other health problems. Concentrated sweets, such as table sugar (sucrose) and high-fruc- tose corn syrup, cause big jumps in blood glucose and insulin levels, which boost triglycerides, various inflammatory markers and oxygen-free radicals in the blood. In addition, long- term consumption of the large amounts of fructose found in many sugary products may damage the liver and cause insulin resistance. At present, there are five FDA-approved artifi- cial sweeteners: acesul- fame, aspartame, neotame, saccharin and sucralose. Stevia is a plant-derived non-caloric sweetener that also has FDA approval. Though concerns about cancer have been largely dismissed, the chemicals in these artificial sweeten- ers may cause headaches and other reactions in some sensitive people. Like you, most people consume artificial sweet- eners because they want to lose weight. Replacing concentrated sugar with products that have very few, if any, calories should tilt energy balance in favor of weight loss. And some Police reports The following informa- tion is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff's Department, Corning Police Department and California Highway Patrol. Arrests • Tehama Interagency Drug Enforcement task force agents arrested three men in Corning Thursday after a caller reported hear- ing an argument in which a man was screaming about killing everyone. Deputies stopped a white Mitsubishi with Texas plates and then called in task force agents to a single-wide mobile home near Hillcrest Drive and Maverick Road. Those arrested were Brian Keith Glasco, 42, and Clifford Gene Glasco, 63, both of Corning and Robert Lynn Freeman, 34, of Sny- der, Texas. All three were charged with possession of marijuana for sale and pos- session of concentrated cannabis. Freeman and Brian Glasco had an addi- tional charge of selling mar- ijuana. Bail was set at $45,000 each for Freeman and Brian Glasco,t $35,000 for Clifford Glasco. • A 17-year-old girl was arrested Thursday near the TRAX bus station down- town when she ran from officers and threatened to hit one officer in the face when they caught up to her. The girl had been reported as a runaway and someone had reported seeing her in the area of Pine and Rio streets. She was charged with resisting or obstructing an officer and booked into the Tehama County Juvenile Justice Center. Burglary • An outbuilding to a vacant house was reported burglarized Thursday in the 4900 block of Freeman School House Road in the Corning area. Theft • Registration paperwork and CDs were reported stolen Thursday from a 2001 Pontiac in the 400 block of James Avenue. • A green 1998 Saturn, lic. no. 3XLN901, was reported stolen Thursday from the Corning area. It has a Tinkerbell sticker on the back window and the driver's side hubcap is miss- ing. • Several flower boxes were reported stolen Thurs- day from behind Westside Hope for the End Bible Prophecy Seminars Tuesday-Wednesday-Friday-Saturday Sunday Evenings 7:00-8:00pm Saturday's Topic "A Thief in the Night" Sunday's Topic "The United States in Bible Prophecy" Please Join Us Seventh-day Adventist Church 720 South Jackson St., Red Bluff Showing Live Via Satellite Flowers and Gifts, 850 Wal- nut St. The boxes, valued at $250, were taken between 5 and 11 a.m. Vandalism • Someone throwing rocks at passing motorists in the 300 block of South Jackson Street Thursday evening hit the rear passen- ger side door of a 2007 Kia, causing $250 damage. • The front passenger side window of a 1997 Ford Explorer was reported bro- ken Thursday in the 7800 block of Stanford Avenue in Los Molinos. The $55 dam- age occurred during the night. Animals • The Humane Society of the U.S. asked deputies to check on cattle near Raw- son Road and Ohm Road. The association had received photos of possibly underweight black Angus cattle including a calf in the area. Deputies found noth- ing wrong with the animals and closed the case. short-term studies suggest that artifi- cial sweeteners may have that effect. Dr. K by Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D. But other research raises concern that they may do just the opposite and actu- ally promote weight gain. How so? Artificial sweeteners are extremely sweet — hundreds to thousands of times sweeter than table sugar. So people who habitually consume them may wind up desensitized to sweetness. Healthful, filling foods that are less sweet, such as fruits and vegetables, may become unappetizing by compari- son. As a result, the overall quality of your diet may decline. The calories you remove from your diet with a sweetener-for-sugar swap may also sneak back in, in other ways. You may end up replacing the miss- ing sugar with other unhealthy simple carbohy- drates and low-quality fats. Some studies have even linked artificial sweetener consumption to obesity. But this connection should be interpreted cautiously, since it's likely that people consume artificial sweet- eners because they've gained weight, not the other way around. Your best bet may be to try to overcome your sweet tooth by gradually changing your flavor pref- erences. That way, perhaps you can reduce your desire for both sugar and artificial sweeteners. Several studies have shown that people who manage to follow a low- sodium diet for several months wind up preferring lower concentrations of salt in their food. Yearning for sugar and fat can also be changed, although there's less experimental evidence for it. And, believe it or not, you can increase your taste for foods that are cer- tifiably healthful. By increasing your taste for and intake of vegetables, you may be able to edge out sugary and other unhealthy elements of your diet. For example, if you don't like vegetables, it may be the bitter taste that is turning you off. But there are many dif- ferent bitter-tasting com- pounds. Inborn varia- tions in the two dozen or so bitter receptors in the tongue mean different people are more (or less) sensitive to the particular bitterness compounds in specific vegetables. You may respond more to the bitter compounds in, say, broccoli than those in kale. Experimenting with new, healthful foods may open your mind to foods that aren't at all sweet. Don't count on artificial sweeteners for weight loss — they will never take the place of the tried-and-true method of taking in fewer calories and burning up more with daily exercise. It's true that artificial sweeteners are less harm- ful than added sugars, but most doctors recommend them only as a transitional aid to wean people off sug- ary beverages. With patient experimentation, you may come to prefer fresh fruit and other healthful foods that can't be matched by anything that comes from a factory. That would be sweet indeed! Submit questions to harvard_adviser@hms.ha rvard.edu. Crash • A non-injury crash involving a Corning High School bus with 30 students on board took place at 12:35 p.m. Thursday on Mar- guerite Avenue at Solano Street. The bus and Jerry McGahan, 62, of Corning were heading south on Mar- guerite when the bus began to make a right from a posi- tion closer to the center of the road. McGahan went to the right to make a turn, pulling up beside bus as it began to turn, clipping the corner of car. Fires • The cause of a structure fire at an abandoned house with no utilities reported at 11:21 p.m. Thursday in the 1300 block of Yolo Street in Corning is under investiga- tion. The fire started on the back porch, destroying the building before it was con- tained at 12:20 a.m. Dam- age estimate is $50,000. Corning Volunteer Fire Department responded. SWEETHEART SALE BIG DOUBLE TAX REFUND Saturday, 2/11/12 10:00 am - 4:00 pm While most retailers are asking customers to spend their tax refund, we are the only ones offering to DOUBLE it! • Double Your Tax Refund Promotion We are matching home buyers' tax refund amount that they use as cash deposits on purchasing new homes with a price reduction, visa gift card or an interest rate buydown. Max $8,000 Mon-Fri: 9am - 7pm Sat: 9am - 5pm Sun: Closed En Español 26 Sale Lane, Red Bluff • (530) 529-2192 www.Claytonredbluff.com Your