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2A Daily News – Saturday, March 3, 2012 Community people&events Senior menu Leap Year leaps, March blows in The Senior Nutrition Program serves meals Monday through Friday at the Red Bluff Community-Senior Center, the Corning Senior Center and the Los Molinos Veterans Hall. The suggested donation for seniors 60 and older is $2.75. For those guests under the age of 60, the guest charge is $6. A donation is not a requirement for you to receive a meal if you qualify for the program. Reservations must be made a minimum of one day in advance by calling 527-2414. Two percent milk is served with each meal. Menu is subject to change. Week of March 5-9 Monday Swedish meatballs, steamed rice, wheat roll, spinach, cranberry juice and fruit ambrosia Tuesday Ethnic Menu Healthy Heart Chicken tortilla soup, tossed salad, tropical fruit cup, and cinnamon churro Wednesday BBQ ribette, garlic roasted potatoes, marinated veg- etable salad, seasoned bread stick, and pear cranberry cobbler Thursday Chicken tettrazini, brussels sprouts, marinated pea salad, wheat bread and peaches Friday Beef stew with potatoes, peas, beans and carrots, pineapple orange juice, biscuit and banana cream dessert SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight In an announcement of the celebration of John and Phyllis Bedford's 65th wedding anniversary that was published on page 2A Thursday, the certificate that was presented by Supervisor Bob Williams was given by him alone and not on behalf of the Tehama County Board of Supervisors. –––––––– 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. The delightful sunny days are a relief from the windy, rainy weather of winter. Crispy cold mornings and nights usher in comfortably sunshiny days. We start to notice the daffodils pushing upward with their buds, we hear the frogs sing, such as frogs sing and we embrace the hope that these kinds of days will visit us every week. Sounds perfect, but perfect is never perfect so we begin to notice that the car needs washing, a good job for a sunny day, then as we walk to the car the grass appears to have grown tall over night. We have the fleeting thought that we will need to haul out the power mower and cut the lawn. The drift of this week's column is a part of the almost winter to spring per- sonal adjustment. I suspect it makes us all take a closer look at the chores we need to do on a regular basis and the ones we skip over when the weather isn't right. My brother and family live in Ketchikan, Alaska where it rains approximately 150 inches per year. I am thinking that there is little difference there between rainy day and sunny day chores. Real- ity is that some chores have to be done rain or shine; we only have a brief respite from them. Putting off needed activities is often referred to as procrastination. Put it off, put it off and put it off again if you dare. It is often thought that putting something off means you may never have to deal with it. Not so, in my experience, in fact my postponing doing various things has proved to produce many more problems than I had in the beginning. More over it doubles my misery, first the constant recognition that I have stalled the action I needed to take. To top it off I am in super disgusting mis- ery, having to deal with the punishing results of procras- tinating. The old saying; "a day late and a dollar short," invades my mind and seems to be impossible to ignore. The month of February may have been one of pro- crastination. It is known as putting off the acknowledge- ment of the "29th" until every fourth year. A few people never see the difference, and believe that the 28th is always the last day of Febru- ary. Even the best computers of this day and age drop the "29th" when someone who is born in Leap Year gives his birthday. The Leap Year baby is often lost in the environs of modern technology and is only acknowledged when he/she agrees to type in the 28th of February when the real birth occurred on the 29th. Dur- ing the three years when the 29th doesn't exist the Leap Year born per- son never knows for sure when the birthday party will be held, will it be February 28th or will every one forget and not get around to it until March 1st? There are those Leap year born Carolyn Barber individuals who thrive by telling peo- ple that they have had 4 or 8 or 12 birthdays so that they can remain forever young. It is great fun for the Leap Year born gang but for those of who seem to age by leaps and bounds it doesn't seem so funny. There is one of them in our family and he always accuses me of mar- rying a child. On the twen- ty-ninth of February 2012 he officially had only 20 birthdays. That gives me a few more birthdays than my husband. I stubbornly declare that I was younger than he when we married. I will leave it to you readers to figure out just how chronologically mature each of us is. Hurley actually celebrated a real February 29th this year. He received a tremendously large number of "Happy Birthday" cards on the real 29th of February. Some anonymous persons treated him to a Happy Birth- day Dinner in celebration of the hon- estly real Feb. 29th this year. Thanks to the wonderful Red Bluff residents for honoring of those who had a "real" birthday this year. Carolyn Barber has been writing her column in the Daily News since 1992. It appears on Saturdays. She can be contacted by e-mail at hurcar@yahoo.com. Boyfriend bothers besties Dear Annie: I'm 18 and a senior in high school. I have been with my bo yfriend, ''Mike,'' for a year, and I love him more than any- thing. However, my friends feel dif- ferently. They find him loud and rude. 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Wildcatting Cooperation Is Badly Needed A party of Red Bluff and Corning citizens met in the Chamber of Commerce rooms at Corning last night to make an informal review of the oil situation in Tehama county and suggest if possible some method of hastening the development of the territory, which for some month has been lagging. —March 3, 1922 some of their personal choices. Mike makes an effort to get along for my sake, but my friends make it really difficult. They don't want to be around him, and the feeling is mutual. This hurts me tremendous- ly. And the part that really burns me is that my friends' boyfriends treat them like dirt, yet they think I'm the one with a lousy relationship. This is putting stress on me and often results in arguments with all of them. I plan to be with Mike for a long time, and I also want to keep my best friends. How do I do this? — Trying To Be the Glue Dear Trying: Your friends may not accept Mike for any number of reasons, not the least of which could be jealousy and possessiveness. But someone who can't get along with your friends may also have a few personality issues that you are pur- posely disregarding. Not all high school friendships survive gradua- tion, and not all boyfriends last. Take your time. Let your friends get used to you and Mike as a couple. Ask Mike to be more tolerant of their ''immaturity.'' Refuse to be pressured by anyone, and you even- tually will be able to decide which of these relationships are worth keeping. Dear Annie: ''Baffled Nurse in Indiana'' wrote in dismay about par- ents allowing their children to play with tongue depressors and exam gloves. You printed several respons- es, one of which was from ''Morris, Ill.,'' who said doctors are greedy because they overschedule, making patients wait an hour or more. As a physician who has been in practice for 23 years, there are legit- imate reasons for this. I may have had an emergency or got stuck in surgery. Patients show up late and talk too much about Great-Aunt Tillie's big toe problem. And keep in mind, if I take an extra five min- utes to comfort a patient or calm a frightened child, I will give you extra time, as well. If I scheduled fewer patients, you would need to wait six months before you could make an appointment. — Frustrated Doc Dear Doc: Thanks for weighing in. Here's more: From Oregon: In my 22 years of practice, I have never known a doc- tor to run late because of a leisurely lunch or golf game. In fact, most doctors spend their lunch (and sometimes dinner) trying to catch up. Medical care is by its nature unpredictable, so bring something to keep you (and your children) occupied. Florida: Parents are teaching their children that if they have to wait too long, it's someone else's fault and so it's OK to take gloves and tongue depressors. Those are not condiments at a fast-food place. I always brought books, paper, crayons and small toys with me when I took my children anywhere that might require a wait. And I always brought a book for myself. Oregon: I have six children and never would have dreamed of help- ing myself to medical supplies in order to entertain my kids. The greatest compliment I ever received was when we flew overseas with five children under age 10. It was obvious at each plane change that the flight attendants were not look- ing forward to having us on board. But at the end of each flight, these same attendants complimented us on our children's behavior. Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or write to: Annie's Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. Writers forum to focus on biography Writers Forum will host a meeting titled, "Write Your Own Biog- raphy," Saturday, March 10, from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Memorial Hall of All Saints Episcopal Church, 2150 Benton Drive, Redding, at the corner of Benton Drive and Quartz Hill Road. Author and lecturer Dr. Victoria Morse will present a workshop on how to write your own biography. Attendees will want to bring pen and paper for segments of writing and sharing. Morse teaches class- es on writing biogra- phies, and lectures on a variety of topics. She has written "The Hand- book for Happy Living and Glimpse of Light," among other titles. There will also be a very brief general mem- bership meeting to vote for a new slate of offi- cers. 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