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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? Ifyourlocalorganization or government entity offers service specific to veterans, sendcontactinformationto editor@redbluffdailynews. com,faxto527-9251ordrop it off at 545 Diamond Ave. in Red Bluff during busi- ness hours to be added to this listing. RESOURCES Ve te ra ns s er vi ce s, advocacy groups The Northern Califor- nia Regional Land Trust is hosting another exciting hike on Saturday, July 22. Join local Land Trust ecologists John Hunt and Paul Kirk for a morn- ing of birding, botaniz- ing and natural history at The Land Trust's Deer Creek property northeast of Butte Meadows. The group will carpool out to the 600-acre site and start the hike with coffee and bagels along Deer Creek. Meet at the Chico Park and Ride park- ing lot on Highway 32 at 7:30 a.m. and expect to re- turn by 2 p.m. For updates and to RSVP visit the trust's Facebook page and se- lect "going" to reserve your spot at https:// w w w.fa c ebook .c om/ events/1762999180653941/. TO DO Land Trust to host Deer Creek hike Applications for Dignity Health Community Grants are now open to all agen- cies, especially those who serve the needs of the com- munity in the areas of obe- sity, substance abuse, ag- ing, welfare of children and mental health. In the 2014 Community Health Assessment, these five areas were found to be the highest need within the community. Grant funds are used to deliver services to and im- prove health and well-be- ing of under-served popu- lations within the commu- nity, including children, women, mentally or phys- ically disabled and mi- norities. Dignity Health partners with community agencies through grants in order to support real and lasting change and to pro- vide support within the community. By providing grants to agencies that also sup- port access to jobs, hous- ing, food, education and health care, Dignity is able to work in collaboration to increase access to quality health care. Applications are avail- able for one year grants worth up to $100,000, de- pending on your local hos- pital's cap, and they must include a brief budget nar- rative in application for grant. The first step in apply- ing for a grant is submit- ting a Letter of Intent by July 29 and making sure your organization meets all criteria for the com- munity grant application. For more detailed infor- mation about the applica- tion process and timeline, go to http://dignityhealth. org/cm/content/pages/ community-grants.asp. FUNDING Community grant applications sought IT only T A K E S A S P A R K . O N L Y Y O U C A N P R E V E N T W I L D F I R E S . s m o k e y b e a r . c o m Please This July, reserves of whole blood throughout BloodSource service areas ranging from San Francisco to the west through North- ern Nevada in the east, and the Oregon border south to Merced, are projected to be at least 4,700 pints be- low required inventory lev- els — the equivalent of more than 14,000 lives that could be saved — forcing Blood- Source to issue a critical public appeal urgently en- couraging blood donors of all types to give blood now. Visit the Red Bluff Com- munity Blood Drive 2-6 p.m. Wednesday, July 20 at the Veterans Memorial Hall, at 735 Oak St. The event is sponsored by the Emblem club and will directly sup- port your local hospitals and patients in need. The fluctuating blood inventory level has been trending at an approximate two-day supply for patients, which is half of the ideal quantity needed to provide a safe and available blood inventory. "It is critical that we are prepared to respond to blood needs because it is a matter of life and death. This unprecedented short- age of blood has great po- tential to compromise our ability to support the trans- fusions that physicians need to care for, or even save the lives of, their patients," said Chris Gresens, MD, Senior Medical Director of Blood- Source. "Additionally, many transfusion-dependent pa- tients have been requiring unusually large quantities of blood components." Hospital demand for blood has also increased significantly this year. Com- pared to last July, approx- imately 500 more pints of red blood cells are projected to be in demand from hospi- tals this July. This increase in blood usage among pa- tients, combined with the plummeting levels of blood donations since the Memo- rial Day holiday has cre- ated an extra strain on an already lean blood supply. Out-of-state resources to meet local patient blood needs have also been ex- hausted since blood centers across the country are still recovering from the wide- spread decline in dona- tions. Summer is typically a challenging time to col- lect blood due to many rea- sons including: high school and colleges — where many blood drives are hosted — are on summer break, reg- ular blood donors are on va- cations, and deferrals due to travel. This summer has been especially impacted by the effects of the Zika virus on several regions through- out the world. HEALTH Blood bank issues critical appeal for donors Contrary to popular be- lief, the VA will provide glasses and hearing aids to those who are not ser- vice connected for vision or hearing-related condi- tions — Priority Groups 6-8. In the past these were available only to those service connected for those conditions. These services are considered part of the preventative care package for all veter- ans enrolled in VA health- care who meet certain cri- teria. Also, veterans who are enrolled in the VA health care system are eligible for battery replacement and repair of hearing aids even though those aids were purchased from a private source. Even though glasses and hearing aids may be provided at no charge, there may be a co-pay re- quired for those in pri- ority group 6-8. Audiol- ogy is a specialty clinic, with a $50 dollar co-pay for some services. There is no co-pay for the devices or the batteries, nor are there any charges for vis- its for the purpose of ad- justing, repairing or mod- ifying hearing aids. No cost VA health care is available to many veter- ans, including those who recently returned from a combat zone. They are en- titled to five years of free VA care. The five-year clock begins with their discharge from the mili- tary, not their departure from the combat zone. The VA outpatient clin- ics in Redding and Chico have an enrollment coor- dinator available to pro- vide information. Michele Fox with the Redding Veterans Re- source Center will be at the Red Bluff VSO office 1:30-4:00 p.m. July 21. The VRC assists qualified homeless veterans with transitional housing. Free yearly TRAX bus passes are available for qualified veterans at the VSO offices. We will issue the bus passes at the Red Bluff office and at our sat- ellite office in Corning. Please see the VSO office schedules below. There are many state and federal benefits and programs available to vet- erans and their depen- dents. To find out if you are eligible for any of these benefits, call the Tehama County Veter- ans Service Office at 529- 3664. The VSO address is the Bank of America Build- ing, 955 Main St., Ste. C, in Red Bluff. Office ap- pointment hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, closed from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch. The Red Bluff of- fice VSO is by appoint- ment only. Corning VSO walk-ins are at the Vet- erans Memorial Hall 9-11 a.m. the every Tuesday of the month. Incarcerated and Probation Veteran ap- pointments are Thurs- day mornings. Friday's we are closed for admin- istration and outreach. We are looking forward to meeting you or seeing you again on your return visit. KellyOsborne,retired U.S. Coast Guard, is the Veterans Service Officer for Tehama County. VSO NEWS VA provides hearing aids, eyeglasses SERRF ST UD YI NG E AR TH SC IE NC E CONTRIBUTEDPHOTO RichfieldSERRFstudentshaverecentlybeenstudyingelementsofEarthscience.Thisweektheylearnedthe definition of gravity. If something goes up it must come down. They ended the Earth science unit with an egg drop. Students worked in teams to try to protect their egg from the force of gravity, with mixed results. 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