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The American Red Cross responds to nearly 70,000 disasters a year-one every eight minutes — and most are home fires. Last year, the Ameri- can Red Cross Gold Coun- try Region responded to more than 800 local di- sasters the great majority home fires. With Thanks- giving just around the cor- ner, families are encour- aged to prevent kitchen fires by taking some basic safety measures. "Thanksgiving is the peak day for kitchen fires, and most of those are caused by unattended cooking," said Lilly Wyatt, regional communications director for the American Red Cross Gold Country Region. "The good news is that home fires can be pre- vented by following some simple, safety tips." Tips to avoid cooking fires include: Stay in the kitchen when you are frying, grilling or broiling food. If you leave the kitchen even for a short period of time, turn off the stove. Keep young children and pets at least three feet away from the stove. Move items that can burn away from the stove such as dishtowels, bags and boxes. Clean the stove and the area around it before turn- ing on the heat. Don't leave food on the stove unattended. Turn pot handles to the back of the stove to avoid spills. If a pan catches fire, don't move it. Slide a pan lid or cookie sheet on top of the pan to put out the fire. Turn off the heat. Keep the lid on the pan until it cools. Never try to stop a grease or oil fire with water — it will fuel the fire. If something catches fire in the oven, keep the door closed. Call 9-1-1 so firefighters can make sure the fire didn't spread to the walls. If a fire occurs in the microwave, keep the door closed and unplug the mi- crowave if you can. Don't use it again until a repair- man checks it. If the kitchen catches fire, make sure everyone gets out and call 9-1-1 when outside. Once outside, stay out. Never go back inside a burning building. REDCROSS Stay safe while cooking for holidays REDDING Shasta Regional Medical Center will kick off Thanksgiving Day with its annual Turkey Trot Thursday. This year marks the 30th anniversary of Red- ding's biggest and lon- gest standing tradition on Thanksgiving morning. To celebrate this year's anni- versary, Air Shasta will be flying the largest Ameri- can flag towed by a heli- copter in the north state during opening ceremo- nies at 7:45 a.m. Pet's Without Partners will be there with a few pooches looking for a new home along with other vendor booths joining in on the festivities. The Turkey Trot in- cludes the Diestelhorst Dash for children 8 and younger, the 2-mile fun run or walk for the en- tire family and the timed 6-mile run for the more se- rious runner. In 2014, Turkey Trot had a more than 1,150 runners in the 6-mile run and more than 2,300 in the 2-mile fun run or walk along the Sacramento River Trail. All the proceeds from this event are donated back to the community. This year's main recipient will be The Good News Rescue Mission, the re- maining proceeds will be allocated to Shasta Fam- ily YMCA, Girls on the Run and city of Redding Parks & Recreation. For more information, visit www.ShastaRegional. com or call Karen Hoyt at 510-3670. REDDING 'T ur ke y Tr ot ' ra ce turns 30 this year I did something really dumb that cost me $750. It's so dumb that I'm a little embar- rassed to even tell you about it. That was the price tag on my fancy- schmancy progres- sive eyeglasses. I went for the pricey frame and all the bells and whistles be- cause I do enjoy seeing well. But if you've ever worn the "progressive" style of lenses you know that they are not 100 per- cent awesome. So I have a second pair I call my computer glasses. That means I am switching back and forth quite of- ten. The pair I'm not wear- ing I jam in my purse; I also happen to enjoy car- rying a fairly large nail file in there — the kind that has fine sandpaper on both sides. The kind that can sand the finish right off polycarbonate lens material used in eye- glasses. Yes, that's what I did. And yes, I do have a great eyeglass case that holds two pair of glasses, but it's annoying to take the time to find it then open it to switch out the glasses. I don't know how many times I jammed those pricey progres- sives into my purse and scraped them up against that nail file. What I do know is the scratches be- came so severe that those $750 glasses were ru- ined. And because the frames were unique, re- placing the lenses was more costly than starting over with more sensible frames. That bad habit hurt so badly, I had to have a lit- tle talking-to with myself. This is ridiculous. You have a case. Stop whin- ing, dump the excuses al- ready and use it. The first day I had the new glasses I thought I was going to go mad. But I forced myself to find the case, to take the time to open it, switch out the glasses, then replace the case in a spot in my purse that would hope- fully become quite handy. It was awkward and time consuming. The second day, same thing. Still annoying. Third day, not so bad. Fourth day, don't remem- ber. Fifth day, Voila! It started to feel quite nat- ural. After three weeks, I am home free. I do the find-switch-replace thing so automatically, I don't even think about it. I al- ways know where my computer glasses are and I always know where my progressives are, too. I'm at that stage in my life where I must be wear- ing one or the other. And since my case holds two pairs of glasses, I always know where my sun- glasses are, too. And I still carry my nail file in the same place. The power of habit is something all of us pos- sess if we will but draw upon it. Anything you wish to change or adopt into your life can be done by creating a new habit or breaking an old one. 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