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2A – Daily News – Thursday, February 11, 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. Box 220 Red Bluff, CA 96080 Fax: (530) 527-5774 ______________________ CUSTOMER SERVICE: Subscription & delivery Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (530) 527-2151 Ext. 125 Home delivery subscription rates (All prices include all applicable taxes) Monday through Saturday $9.59 four weeks Rural Rate $10.69 four weeks Business & professional rate $2.21 four weeks, Monday-Friday By mail: In Tehama County $12.29 four weeks All others $16.23 four weeks (USPS 458-200) Published Monday through Saturday except Sunday, by California Newspaper Partnership. 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 70 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 Come in and see our new lower prices We are open and NOT CLOSING Everyday 7am-3pm 200 So. Main St. Red Bluff, Ca 529-9488 BUY TWO GET 3RD FREE! equal or lesser value Anything on the menu 623 Main St. 527-5180 Clothing & Gear Spring & Summer New Arrivals Community people & events 10 Cent T 10 Cent T ea ea T T o Be Held o Be Held The Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the M.E. Church North will give a 10-cent tea at the home of Mrs. Meyer, 839 Walnut street on Friday, February 11th from 2 p.m. on. Come and bring your friend. – Daily News, Feb. 11, 1910 100 100 years years ago... ago... Setting it straight –––––––– 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. The gardener's journal By LEEANN SHNAYER I lost my Gardener's Journal. It is a history book of my garden in Chico. I carried it often into the garden to be sure I marked a correct planting spot, but I misplaced it. I loved that book as much as I loved the garden. For a beginning gar- dener, a journal asks good questions. Mine also included a space to write about mentors that inspired me to garden. I wrote that my dad was a tidy vegetable gar- dener. When he was a boy in northern Germany his family was very proud of the compost pile located at the front of the house. He and his brothers would squash it down with their wooden shoes. As an adult in Chico he sold NH3 fertilizer to the North Valley farmers. He was famous in our neighborhood for growing his great corn. He took a picture of me when I was four years old sitting in the water ditch joyously naked. I still love mud to this day. When I was a young adult, I moved to San Francisco and met my mother's cousin. Gertrude was a passionate gardener. She and her three sons hauled sand and soil into her back yard year after year to build her garden. She and her best friend Elise collected cuttings and seeds because Gertrude was supporting her family. They both taught me how to propagate. From their cuttings, I started my own Gertrude's and Elise's flower garden along both sides of our Chico driveway in their honor. Gertrude took me to the Sunset Gardens in Menlo Park. She visited me dur- ing my first year of work in Canby, located in Modoc County. We drove my old 58 Chevy truck into the wilderness to get flat lava stepping stones for her garden. We drove up ravines, tilted sideways, bumped our heads on the roof, got lost and had a wonderful time together. The journal also had room for maps. Grids on some pages were to help with planning. My duplicate map was accordion folded and kept inside the book to be used separately. Because the journal was so used, the pages were beat up with smudges, pencil marks and mud spots. The journal included pages to list plants and tools purchased. I enjoyed the pages for listing blooms month to month adding the new blooms regularly. It also included great quotes to encourage my own. I even wrote an obit- uary and haiku for a favorite plant. When I found my jour- nal, a week later in the wet compost pile, slugs and snails had chewed it. Now the book has the look of great character, weathered just like the garden where it belongs. Since I have left my childhood home in Chico and moved to Red Bluff, I will deliver the garden journal and a photo album of the house and its' histo- ry to the new owners where it belongs. Guess I need a new journal. The Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with the Cascade District Garden Club; California Garden Clubs, Inc.; Pacific Region Garden Clubs; and National Garden Clubs Inc. Character Counts Community Leadership Day! Coming Soon... *Date: February 12 th , 2010 *Place: Throughout Tehama County *Time: During SERRF Hours Anniversary — Kelley Six Corning youth are heading to Sacramento in June with the Cali- fornia Focus Program. California Focus is a unique 4-H Citizenship educational experience that combine hands-on participation in workshops, debates and simula- tions with outstanding speaker and visits to historical, cultural and gov- ernmental sites. The youth will be citizens of Sierra Cascade where they will reg- ister to vote, conduct a political campaign, elect constitutional offices, analyze the needs and issues of their district and enact leg- islation with the goal of securing the governor's signature. Legisla- tive appointments at the Capitol will allow delegates to meet face- to-face with their Senator and Assembly Members to discuss cur- rent issues and advocate for issues critical to them and their fellow constituents. The delegates are comprised of Maywood Middle School students David Foss and Kyle Hansen; Mercy High School student Jessica Foss and Corning High School stu- dents Dorinda Walker, Dominic Azevedo and Nico Azevedo, all members of Corning 4-H club. These delegates are eager to learn how they fit into discussing and changing government views and ideas. Two members of the delegation have already written letters to gov- ernment officials, one to President Barack Obama and the other to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and both received letters back. This great experience is a five- day, in-depth conference full of experiences the students will remember, but it doesn't come cheap. These members have done fundraising and still need money to cover their fees. Each delegate is required to pay $475 and chaperone fees of $575. To donate, call the Tehama County 4-H Office at 527-3101. Local youth plan to visit state capital Pictured from left: delegates David Foss, Jessica Foss, Kyle Hansen, Nico Azevedo, Dorinda Walker, Dominic Azevedo Courtesy photo Bob and Dorothy Kelley of Red Bluff will be observing their 66th wedding anniversary on Feb. 13. Bob was born in Portland, Ore. on Jan. 4, 1922 and Dorothy was born in Ono, Calif. on Aug. 23, 1921. They met in Stockton on Dec. 25, 1943 and were married Feb. 13, 1944 in the Post Chapel at Hobbs army Air Corps Airbase in Hobbs, N.M. Dorothy was a stay-at-home wife and mother. After the war, Bob worked at Mountain Copper Company in Redding, Ono Trucking, Hawkey Transport, Swift and Company, D.P.M. Meats and R&R Fine Meats. They will be hosted Saturday by their daughter Ellen Kelley of Red Bluff and Dorothy's sister Iris Sobiski of Shasta Lake. Cell phone drive Wondering what to do with that functional but not so fancy cell phone? Liberty Tax Service, 1060 S. Main St. in Red Bluff, is hosting a cell phone collection event 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27. Donated phones will go to the Cell Phones for Soldiers organiza- tion, which is dedicated to enabling soldiers sta- tioned in Iraq and overseas to afford to call loved ones. Each donated phone can buy a calling card containing up to 100 minutes. Visit www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com for more information or to make a cash donation.