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ByJulieZeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter REDBLUFF Asmallpartywasgo- ing on in the 600 block of Main Street Saturday, when shoppers bustled from store to store for the Merry Martini Holiday Shop- ping Social. The event included six stores that provided cocktails along with the chance to get $10 off a purchase at a location of the shop- per's choosing within the partic- ipating businesses for those who visited all of the locations. Dis- cover Earth, Enjoy The Store, Cook, Plum Crazy, The Closet on Main and Wink were full to the brim with potential customers browsing merchandise. At The Enjoy Store, Mark Co- hen of Red Bluff provided enter- tainment on the piano while shop- pers browsed. At Discover Earth visitors were greeted by owner Mary Jayne Eidman's poodle, So- phie. "It's the 600 block's way of say- ing Merry Christmas and thank you to all our loyal customers," Ei- SHOPPING MerryMartini Holiday Social fills downtown shops By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter REDBLUFF Tehama County Chief Administrator Bill Goodwin was recently given the 300 Centen- nial Donor Award by BloodSource for his 300th donation since he started donating blood in 1979. For Goodwin, his reason for donating is a personal one that started first with his need for blood from a blood bank follow- ing a car crash in 1977 in which he underwent surgery to remove his spleen. "When they removed my spleen, I used at least a few pints of blood so when I recovered I decided I ought to become a do- nor," Goodwin said. "I moved to the North State in 2000 and in 2005-2006 I switched to donating (blood) platelets." Goodwin now donates platelets every other week. Part of his de- cision was that donations can be done on the weekend and not af- AWARD Goodwin given 300th donation award By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter REDBLUFF An outage of services occurred early Sunday for Verizon Wireless and Charter Spectrum customers in Red Bluff and Cot- tonwood after a storm late Sat- urday damaged fiber-optic cable lines near the Sacramento River. All services were restored at 1:45 p.m. Monday, said Kim Hass, director of communications for Charter. Verizon Wireless ser- vices were fully restored at 3:30 p.m. Monday. The services that were not working included Charter Inter- net, cable television and phone. Verizon Wireless Internet, phone and texting services were also down. Those who have both com- panies as their providers were without Internet and phone ser- vices for all of Sunday and much of Monday. The Verizon Wireless service outage was caused by the same damaged fiber-optic cables that impacted Charter Commu- nications, said Heidi Flato, Veri- zon Pacific manager. Some of Ve- rizon's cell sites were damaged as well during the storm. A request was put in Sunday for a boat to assist with Pacific Gas and Electric lines down in the river, according to the Tehema County Sheriff's Office dispatch logs. This incident was related to the Charter cables down in the area. The resolution of the issue took as long as it did because of safety reasons, but nothing fur- ther was disclosed. OUTAGE Cabledamagecutsoffcustomers By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF The Green Room Community Art Studio, 331 Oak St., hosted a fun day for children of all ages to explore their creativ- ity Saturday at the Elves Work- shop. It was the second of three elves workshops and one of several Christmas-themed activities put on by the Tehama County Arts Council for the holidays. The fi- nal elves workshop is Dec. 20 from 1-3 p.m. "The Elves Workshop is a chance for kids to do something where they can be creative and make gifts for their family," in- structor Nora Schwaller said. "The ceramic workshops have been doing great and it's one of our more popular ones offerec. We're going to try and continue doing workshops as much as we can." The majority of the workshops are offered free of charge thanks to community partners who spon- sor the workshops the Tehama County Arts Council puts on, Schwaller said. "Kids need to learn that art can be fun," Schwaller said. "It doesn't have to be perfect. The more you experiment, the more you learn." This is the third year the arts council has offered the Elves Workshop and every year they try to do a few more projects and get a little more organized, Arts Council board member Chrissie Clapp said. The number of attend- ees varies from week to week with 35 attending last week and 20 the week prior and about 15 at Satur- day's event. "It depends on what's going on in the community and the weather," Clapp said. "We've had a good time and the cool thing is we've connected with people who have walked by and thought our projects in the window looked cool." Other classes have included making a ceramic Santa plate and beginning jewelry making, which cost $5 per class, to free classes like pipe cleaner ornaments and snowflake painting. "I love it here," said Karen Harris of Red Bluff who brought her daughter Emma and a few friends. "It's a good outlet for kids who get excited about the holidays, but don't always have a place to participate. They can let their imagination go crazy." Shannon Nason of Red Bluff brought her son Nathaniel after hearing about it on Facebook. "This is awesome," Nason said. "It's a great place for me to get ideas." Remaining classes through December include: Dec. 16, 1:30- 5:30 p.m., tissue paper Christmas tree; Dec. 17, 3:30-8, Santa por- ART GR EEN R OO M AR T ST UD IO HOLDING HOLIDAY CLASSES JULIEZEEB—DAILYNEWS Emma Harris, 9, of Red Bluff works on creating a tree at the Elves Workshop held Saturday at the Green Room Community Art Studio, 331 Oak St. Nathaniel Nason of Red Bluff works on picking out stickers for his gingerbread man at the Elves Workshop held Saturday at the Green Room Community Art Studio, 331Oak St. Calendar..........A2 Community.....A3 Health..............A4 Lifestyles........A5 Opinion............ A7 News................A8 Index............... ## INDEX Feds respond to incidents of run-ins with manned aircra with new rules, including ways for easy identification. 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