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DISCOVERYCENTER COURTESYPHOTO Sacramento River Discovery Center day campers dig for treasure. The Sacramento River Discovery Center Summer Day Camp students have had fun learning about dirt, water and how to keep from getting lost, and the next camp deals with ways to get rich. Campers will have a op- portunity to dig for the trea- sures buried in the earth. Could it be gold? Or silver? Or liquefied swamp plants — oil to make gasoline or other petroleum prod- ucts? Campers will have a chance to learn about possi- ble riches in space, perhaps mining a simulated asteroid or comet. The fun part of these summer day camps, that run from 8 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday, is that every day is something new and different. Creating a pipeline to carry the oil or creating a pirates treasure map are good possibilities for activities. In the following week, July 18 to 22, the campers will be learning ways they can spend their riches at the "Get Going" camp that is sponsored by Union Pacific Foundation. The focus will be on ways of moving goods and people from place A to site B. A variety of transpor- tation vehicles will be ex- plored such as steamboats, solar-electric cars, and the construction of a bridge us- ing craft sticks. The last time bridges were built by campers, there were two groups who successfully constructed a bridge that held 115 pounds of weight and did not break. Can the campers top that in 2016? This is going to be a great camp for potential en- gineers. The Discovery Cen- ter the Community Action Agency are looking for 10 families who have an inter- ested youth ages 6-12 who would like to experience the camps. The fees will be paid for by the Community Ac- tion Agency. The camps are held at the center, 1000 Sale Lane in the Mendocino National Forest's Red Bluff Recre- ation Area. Hats, draw- string bags and healthy snacks and drinks, are pro- vided to all campers. Fees for general at- tendees range from $50 to $75 for each week. For more information, write to Zach Whitten at teach- erwhitten@gmail.com or the Discovery Center at bhughessrdc@gmail.com, or call 527-1196. Su mm er d ay c am ps c on ti nu e The California Heat, Red Bluff's chapter of the Sweet Adelines Interna- tional, will stage a Sum- merfest II program at the Tehama County Museum in Tehama at 7 p.m. today, July 9. The community is in- vited to come and sup- port this group that en- tertains throughout the county throughout the year, usually charging no admission. Admission is $10 and proceeds enable the Heat to cover some of their expenses for music and travel. You now have the op- portunity to do it again. The Heat has an ex- panded repertoire and will be devoting part of the program to featuring America's patriotic songs as only four part women's harmony can do. The doors of the muse- um's main building will open at 6 p.m. with per- sonnel on duty to escort you down some of Te- hama County's memory lanes before you enter the Marty Graffell Annex for the evening's enter- tainment, complete with snacks and cold drinks. CALIFORNIA HEAT Vocal group to perform tonight in Tehama County REDDING The Veterans Home of California — Red- ding has been awarded a Five-Star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS created the Five- Star Quality Rating Sys- tem to help consumers and their families com- pare nursing homes more easily via the Nursing Home Compare website at https://www.medicare. gov/nursinghomecom- pare/search.html. Nurs- ing homes receiving five stars are considered to have "much above aver- age" quality. "Serving Veterans and their families is our mis- sion at CalVet," said Cal- Vet Secretary Dr. Vito Imbasciani. "We set high standards and are seeing excellent results thanks to the hard work and dedica- tion of our veterans home personnel." The survey inspec- tion for the determina- tion evaluates compliance with Medicare health and safety standards for acute and continuing care pro- viders, including nursing homes, with respect to registered nurse staffing, support staffing, quality measures, healthcare and overall quality. "We could not be more pleased that our five-star CMS rating reflects our ef- fort to provide the highest quality care for our resi- dents," said Tim Bouse- man, administrator at the Redding Veterans Home. "Our focus now is on maintaining that level of service." Redding is one of eight homes operated by CalVet, with other homes located in Yountville, Fresno, West Los Angeles, Bar- stow, Ventura, Lancaster and Chula Vista. See all the homes and learn more about CalVet at www.cal- vet.ca.gov. The Veterans Home of California — Redding is a 154-bed facility offering residential care for the elderly and skilled nurs- ing facilities. It is located at 3400 Knighton Road. Home tours are given ev- ery Wednesday at 1 p.m. For more information follow the Redding Vet- erans Home on Facebook and Twitter. RATING Redding Veterans Home receives five stars Advocacy American Legion, Las- sen Post 0167 Red Bluff, 528-1026 American Legion, Rais- ner Post 45 Corning, 518-3152 Am Vets, Post 2002 Corning, 526-2883 VFW Los Molinos, 384-1301 Red Bluff, 528-1026 Corning Post 4218 Dis- trict 15 Auxiliary 4218, District 15 824-5957 DAV 529-4579 Marine Corps League, Detachment 1140 (888) MCL-1140 Military Family Support Group 529-1852 or 529-2416 Services Tehama County Veter- ans Service Office 529-3664 Tehama County Veter- ans Collaborative Tehama Together, 527- 2223 Veteran Resource Cen- ter Chico (530) 809-2831 Redding (530) 223-3211 VA Crisis Hotline (800) 273-8255 VA Homeless Outreach (530) 247-7917 Redding VA Outpatient Clinic (530) 226-7555 Chico VA Outpatient Clinic (530) 879-5000 Veterans Home, Red- ding (530) 224-3800 Faith Based Advocacy PATH — Poor And The Homeless 736-3959 Pastor Dave Lambers, VCF 736-3400 Serving veterans? If your local organiza- tion or government en- tity offers service specific to veterans, send contact information to editor@ redbluffdailynews.com, fax to 527-9251 or drop it off at 545 Diamond Ave. in Red Bluff during busi- ness hours to be added to this listing. RESOURCES Veterans services, advocacy groups listed The Tehama County Cat- tlewomen have awarded a total of $9,000 in scholar- ships to a group of seven ac- complished Tehama County students this year. The generosity of the Te- hama County community at various CattleWomen events has made this pos- sible, and the students and the CattleWomen are all very grateful. This year five scholar- ships were awarded to col- lege students majoring in an agricultural field and two scholarships were awarded to students from an agricultural family who are not ag majors. The three ag major scholarships went to Emily Andreini, Bailey Brownfield, Will Macdonald, Jase Northrup and Stacy Stroing. The two scholarships to non-ag ma- jors went to Jessica Mac- donald and Jenny McClus- key. Emily Andreini is at UC Davis in a PhD program in Beef Sustainability with the goal of becoming a profes- sor of Sustainable Beef Cat- tle Systems. She graduated from Red Bluff High School and is the daughter of Nor- man and Cathy Andreini. Bailey Brownfield, from Red Bluff, is the daughter of Robert and Marianne Brownfield. She graduated from Red Bluff High School and is transferring to Chico State in the fall of 2016. She will major in agriculture business with the goal of a profession in ag lending and finance. Will Macdonald, a grad- uate of Red Bluff High School, attends Lassen Community College, where he is studying agriculture business management and animal science. He is the son of Rob and Shelley Macdonald. Jase Northrup has just completed his sophomore year at Chico State, ma- joring in Animal Science. He is the son of Rick and Stacy Northrup. He grad- uated from Los Molinos High School and plans to become a university pro- fessor. Stacey Stroing gradu- ated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and will attend UC Davis in the fall of 2016. She is in a credential and master's degree program with plans to become an ag teacher. She is the daughter of Tom and Jeannie Stroing and is a graduate of Red Bluff High School. Jessica Macdonald, the daughter of Shelley and Rob Macdonald, is a graduate of Red Bluff High School. She is a senior at the University of Nevada, Reno and is ma- joring in nursing which is her chosen career. Jenny McCluskey is a graduate of Red Bluff High and is the daughter of Mi- chael and Kendra McClus- key. She attends Arizona State University where she is majoring in kinesiology. She plans to work in the field of prosthetics. The students were ranked based on their in- terview, financial need, un- derstanding of and contri- bution to agriculture, un- derstanding of the cattle industry and their grade point average. The stu- dents will all be outstand- ing ambassadors of the ag- ricultural industry and the committee is proud that the CattleWomen is able to help them complete their educa- tion. TEHAMA COUNTY CATTLEWOMEN Scholarships awarded to local students By Malcolm Foster TheAssociatedPress BANGKOK Thailandis smit- ten by Japan: Sushi restau- rants fill the malls, Issey Miyake's luxury "Bao Bao" bags are all the rage and Thai tourists are flocking to Japan in record numbers to visit a country many view as a role model. "I love Japan. They really puttheirheartintowhatever they do," says Aunyawee Sa- hachalermphat, 26, who has traveled to Japan more than a dozen times since study- ing there five years ago and owns at least 10 Comme des Garcons shirts, another popular brand that sounds French but is actually Jap- anese. Like many Thais, she loves Japanese food and ad- mires the quality of its prod- ucts and its advanced, or- derly economy that retains a respect for tradition. "We look up to them," she says. Japan, too, has a soft spot for Thailand, although it doesn't loom nearly as large in the public mind. It's seen more as a warm, easygoing tourist spot — a welcome break from Japan's often oneroussocialcodes—anda vital production and export hubformorethan4,500Jap- anese companies, including behemoths such as Toyota, Honda and Canon. All this has resulted in a mutual affection between these two nations that's rare in Asia, where historical, po- litical and territorial ten- sions often complicate ties. Typical of many in her generation, Aunyawee traces her positive feelings to watching Japanese car- toons such as "Doraemon" and "Sailor Moon" as a child. As an adult, she instinctively trusts anything "Made in Ja- pan" and admires the cour- teous, subdued manners of many Japanese — wide- spread sentiments among Thais. Economic and bureau- cratic changes have helped foster these ties. Three years ago, Japan waived visas for Thais for up to 15 days, prompting tourist numbers to surge to nearly 800,000 last year, up five-fold from 2011. As Thai incomes have grown and budget carriers such as AirAsia have intensi- fied competition, trips to Ja- pan have become more af- fordable. Likewise, Japanese touristscannowflyfromTo- kyotoBangkokforaboutthe same price asto Okinawa, in southern Japan. There seems to be a cul- tural affinity between these two peoples — a gentleness, an aversion to conflict and an emphasis on proper eti- quette—thatcreatesasense of familiarity and safety. Yet there are still enough intriguing differences to make the other culture ap- pealing in a non-threaten- ing way. Buddhism, for example, has influenced both coun- tries, although in Thailand itplaysamoreovertroleand it is epitomized by brilliantly colored temples and monks in orange robes, while in Ja- pan it takes on a more sub- dued form. Both countries haveroyalfamilies,although the Thai king holds greater sway over society than the emperor does in Japan. 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