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Bull Sale Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale will be Jan. 26-30 at the Tehama Dis- trict Fairground. Catalogs for the bull, gelding and stock dog sales are avail- able at the office now. For information call 527-2045 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Information also availble at redbluffbullsale.com. Pet loss The Family Service Agency will hold a Pet Loss Support Group meeting from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan.21. For information call 527- 6702. Recycling drive The Red Bluff Leo Club is collecting cans and water bottles to pay for Relay For Life. Any- one interested in donating recycling is asked to con- tact Rita Hidy at 527- 7988 or 200-0036. Easley on Dean's List Nicole Grace Easley of Red Bluff, a pre-com- munication major at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has been named to the Dean's List for achiev- ing excellence in acade- mic work during the fall quarter 2009. The honor, which will be noted on stu- dents' permanent records, is earned by students who have attained the qualifying grade point average of 3.75 on a program of 12 or more graded units in the college of letters and science, or 3.50 in the college of engineering. Slow Food Slow Food Shasta Cascade, which covers Butte, Tehama and Shas- ta counties will be hold- ing its second annual National Seed Swap Day. The event will be at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 31 at Dis- cover Earth, 641 Main St., in Red Bluff. There will be guest speakers and good cof- fee. Bring seeds, ques- tions, advice, or just show up and see what we've got. Last year's event had so many seeds and straw- berry starts they couldn't be given away. For infor- mation call 529-3856. 2A – Daily News – Saturday, January 16, 2010 THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 Editor: Chip Thompson editor@redbluffdailynews.com Sports Editor: Rich Greene sports@redbluffdailynews.com Circulation Manager: Kathy Hogan khogan@redbluffdailynews.com Production Manager: Sandy Valdivia sandy@redbluffdailynews.com 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 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. 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NEWS News Tip Hotline: 527-2153 FAX: (530) 527-9251 E-mail: clerk@redbluffdailynews.com Daytime: (530) 527-2151 Sports: Ext. 111 Obituaries: Ext. 103 Tours: Ext. 112 After hours: (530) 527-2153 ______________________ ADVERTISING Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Display: 527-2151 Ext. 122 Classified: 527-2151 Ext. 103 Online (530) 527-2151 Ext. 133 FAX: (530) 527-5774 E-mail: advertise@redbluffdailynews.com VOLUME 125, NUMBER 48 A MediaNews Group Newspaper The Red Bluff Daily News is an adjudicated daily newspaper of general circulation, County of Tehama, Superior Court Decree 9670, May 25, 1955 © 2010 Daily News N EWS D AILY RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY SPECIAL PAGES ON THE FOLLOWING DAYS Mondays: Kids Corner Tuesdays: Employment Wednesdays: Business Thursdays: Entertainment Fridays: Select TV Saturdays: Farm, Religion HOW TO REACH US Publisher & Advertising Director: Greg Stevens gstevens@redbluffdailynews.com Dunn's Little Bit of Everything 2nd Hand Store 333 South Main St. Suite L, Red Bluff • 529-5480 NOW OPEN Come by & take a look Open: Mon-Fri 9:30-5:30 Sat-Sun 10-2 The Vacuum Man (530) 527-8644 440 Antelope Blvd., Suite 6 Red Bluff, CA 96080 Mon.-Fri. 9-5 Sat. 9-3 New & Used Sewing Machines Sales & Service 25% OFF Reconditioned Vacuum Cleaners All reconditioned vacuums 90 day normal use quarantee We service all makes and models SENIOR Discount $19.95 plus parts with coupon COUPON Community people & events Many Shifts Are Made Many Shifts Are Made In Location Of Homes In Location Of Homes J.C. Shufford has taken possession of the Conard & Boyd dairy ranch a mile west of Red Bluff, and the man- ager of the ranch, Tilden L. Williams, has moved to Vina, where he is to be employed to superintend the Dr. West place, recently purchased by Peter Johansen of Humboldt county. In the same neighborhood, Wm. J. Grinsell, also of Humboldt, will occupy this week the Dr. Westlake place bought by him. Both the Vina ranch- es, which are now in fruit, are to be highly improved and set to alfalfa, for which they are well adapted. — Daily News, Jan. 16, 1910 100 100 years years ago... ago... Setting it straight The caption for Friday's front page story Mentors celebrate with movie night contained an error. Pic- tured, from left, are Wayne Peterson, Getrude Cross- man and Melissa Mendonca receiving the National Mentoring Month Proclamation from Corning Mayor Gary Strack. There was an error on Friday's front page story Bumpy road ahead. Photo credit should have been given to Michelle Carlson of Tehama County Department of Education. The Daily News regrets the errors. –––––––– 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. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Memories of Granny She was slim as a rail, had coal black hair, dressed in a brilliantly clean, starched housedress that was made for her by her daughter Josie of Oberlin, Kansas who had access to flour and feed sacks that were printed with flowers and designs. Josie could fashion the most beauti- ful garments from those sacks she would look into the 'Monkey Wards" more commonly known as the Montgomery Wards catalog and duplicate a garment that looked even better than the original. Josie would gift members of the family with these wonderful creations. Elsie Storm Fields was a petite, black haired lady who sat grinding bread crumbs for her daughter, Marjorie where she lived in the Vic- torian house on Dunkheld Place, Denver, Colorado. Her daughter prepared food for dinner, cajoling the giant gas range to work appro- priately. Marjorie, her husband Guy and their children Gary and Carolyn lived in the downstairs apartment, two uncles, Dick and Gordon rent- ed a room at the top of the stairs and took their meals with Marjorie and Guy and the children. The black haired lady was my maternal grand- mother. She and Grandpa Frank Fields lived in the upstairs apart- ment on Dunkheld Place. It was a great growing up experi- ence living in such close proximity with my mother's extended family. I absorbed a lot of basic informa- tion about living within those Vic- torian walls. The house was built with the exact floor plan of the Vic- torian House on the corner of Pine and Rio Street in Red Bluff. Most importantly I learned the impor- tance of unconditional love in the lives of people.During January I was listing all the things I am thankful for when I suddenly real- ized that the ability to be thankful at all was because of the influence of my grandmother Elsie Fields. Once I bust into that Dunkheld kitchen where mother and grandmother spent so much time and called my grandmother, "Granny," she began to laugh a gentle laugh and asked me if she looked so old as to be called Granny. I was startled because I thought all grandmothers looked old and since I had heard a classmate call her grandmother, Granny, I thought I would try it out. Grandma Fields gathered me to her and said "I love you Caroly" (my pet name used by Grandma F. and my aunt Pauline Fields). Needless to say that gentle reprimand kept me from calling her anything but Grandma Fields from then on. Born Elsie Fredona Storm on Nov. 23, 1889 in Vesta, Neb., she died June 20, 1954 one month before I was to be married. She was the daughter of Alfred Storm and Melissa Tolen Storm. She was 65 when she died. We no longer lived in the same house or even the same state as she and my grandfather lived. My mother, Marjorie was the only one of the family who could attend her funeral in Colorado. Grandma was frail as long as I knew her but in the fashion of families in those old days, none talked about the depth of her illness. I was over fifty years of age when I learned that she had long suffered the ravages of "consump- tion" as tuberculosis was referred to during her lifetime. Grandma was meticulous in her house keeping. She was careful not kiss anyone or let anyone drink out of the same glass even though it meant more dish washing for her. She kept her whole house in perfect order including her gold fish bowl. The golden fish were so health they frolicked and jumped out of the fish bowl. She solved the problem by putting a bright red hair net over the opening so that the fish would be gently stopped and would drop back into the water. Grandma had to rest a lot and the doctor had told her to drink a little beer each day for her health. She was so embarrassed about the doc- tor's prescription that she closed herself in her panty while forcing down the brew. Grandpa Fields truly loved Elsie in better and in worse and even carried her purse for her, which was a little heavy. It was quite a sight to see him guide her gently by her elbow as they entered the storefront church on the corner of Dunkheld Street. I went with them when I was a teenager visiting in Colorado. Grandma both embarrassed me and honored me by pointing out to the congregation members that "didn't I have the most beautiful dark hair?" Grandma sat in the pew next to me in her flocked nylon red dress and patted my hand. The love that passed between us was overwhelming and lasting. As I write this, it has been 121 years since Elsie Fredona Storm Fields was born. She bore Clyde, Ralph, Marjorie, Gordon, Elsie Josephine (Josie) and Athlene. Grandma herself began life without a living father as Alfred Storm died of lung dis- ease before she was born and her mother Melissa died when Elsie was but one year old. It has been thought that her mother, Melissa may have also died of consumption. Grandma Fields a dedicated mother who worked hard, even to sweeping her yard to cement tex- ture to avoid bringing dirt into her tiny Nebraska house. She lived through the depression years of having to leave Nebraska and her beloved pump organ. She played by ear and each child had their own favorite song that she played for them in the evenings. She and Grandpa Fields and family were forced to seek a new place in the mountains of Colorado. She mod- eled the admonition from the Bible that we should be content in what- ever state we find ourselves. In doing so she handed down high standards to her children who in turn handed them down to her grandchildren. I am thankful for being Elsie's grandchild and getting a glimpse of the best in people, learning to keep on keeping on, learning the value of making do, experiencing the rewards of a good work ethic and for understanding the importance of a spiritual life. Thank you Grandma Elsie for your unconditional love, sorry to have waited so long to voice this thanks to you. The Rev. Leon Thompson reminded the congregation last Sunday to "value the days gone by." As he presented Psalm 137, he stat- ed that "we are all a product of our past, our relationships of the past and of today." It certainly brought my memories of my family past to mind. 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. Carolyn Barber COMMUNITY CLIPS Courtesy photo Tehama County Police Activities League Martial Arts Center for Excellence is now located at Ginger's Fitness Palace near Cedar Street and Madison Avenue, across from the former Holiday market. Classes are 3-5 p.m. Mondays and Thursdays and are free for children 5 through 18. The students and staff want to thank the Bethal Assembly for giving them a place to train for several months. Ginger's welcomes PAL into the building where Zumba and other fitness activities are available. PAL moves