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There are a few non- public domain books avail- able for a fee, but the vast majority are free. CARPOOL KIDS. Are your kids scheduled for lots of activities this fall? Are you feeling over- whelmed already? Car- pool-Kids is a website and app that allows you to co- ordinate driving with other parents so you can save time, gas money and sanity. The app is available for iOS, or you can simply open the website on any browser on your Mac, PC, tablet or smartphone. Wouldyouliketosend a tip to Mary? You can email her at mary@ everydaycheapskate. com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, 12340 Seal Beach Blvd., Ste. B-416, Seal Beach, CA 90740. EVERYDAYCHEAPSKATE Easy ways to plan for college, save money, read books, carpool kids Mary Hunt The 9th Annual Gem, Mineral and Jewelry Show will be held at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds on Sat- urday and Sunday, Sept. 17- 18. This event is open to the public from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday. More than 30 vendors from the western United States will feature fin- ished fine jewelry, polished rocks, minerals, and fossils. A wide range of displays including painted rocks, necklaces and silversmith- ing will show handiwork by club members. The event offers great ac- tivities for kids and families including geode cutting, raffle prizes which include jewelry and cash, silent auc- tions for adults and kids and a door prize announced every 30 minutes. Each day, the first 200 kids through the door will receive a wire wrapped arrowhead neck- lace. Other activities in- clude a treasure hunt. Rockhounds or rock and mineral collectors will travel from across the north state including Sacramento, Roseville and Redding, and as far away as Reno to en- joy the show. In 2015, more than 3,000 people attended the event. Admission is $3 and kids 16 and younger are free. The Feather River Lap- idary and Mineral Society hosts the event annually providing opportunities for collectors and vendors and to increase the pub- lic's knowledge and inter- est in geology, gems, and lapidary. The Society meets monthly at the Oroville's Thermolito Grange. It of- fers rockhounding field trips, classes and hands-on learning experiences at its rock shop providing mem- bers to cut and create their own rocks into jewelry. To learn more, visit www.featherriverrocks.org or https://www.facebook. com/pages/Feather-River- Lapidary-Mineral-Society/. CHICO Annualgem,mineral and jewelry show set for this month PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. The Tehama County Museum welcomes Me- gan Bradshaw, who will be working with curators Darrell Mullins and Pam Britting as an intern and is helping stage the new ex- hibit on flumes in Tehama County to debut at the Ju- bilee this starting at 8 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 10. Bradshaw was born in Red Bluff and raised in Redding. During her ju- nior college days she at- tended her first Anthro- pology class and has loved it ever since. After gradu- ating Shasta College, she continued her education at California State University, Chico where she majored in Anthropology with a specific emphasis on zoo- archaeology — or animal remains — as well as mu- seum studies. Bradshaw's first exhibit installation was in 2007 through Chico State's Mu- seum of Anthropology and focused on the Maidu In- dians of Northern Califor- nia. That same year, she participated in The Betty's Hope Archaeological Field School in the Caribbean. Bradshaw is copy editor for author Aaron Stein- metz's "The Sleepy P.I. Tril- ogy," so she is kept very busy. With Bradshaw's addi- tion to the staff, the Te- hama County Museum has three Chico State grad- uates with museum stud- ies credentials serving as curators and display tech- nicians. Bradshaw moved to the Red Bluff area in 2010, and since then has worked in multiple aspects of the farming community. "I am excited to join the Tehama County Museum, and I look forward to learning more about local history, and giving back to the community," Brad- shaw said. "Although this event is not my first rodeo, I was excited to learn about all that will be happening this Saturday. I knew about the attractions inside the An- nex and the main build- ing, but I was excited to learn about the focus on kids outside — especially in the park." In addition to the arti- sans and crafters in the park and live entertain- ment all day, Masonic Lodge #150 will have a booth for free child photo identification where the parents keep all of the in- formation generated and the Masons keep nothing except the good feeling of serving the interests of the family. Maurice Grandquist and his antique trucking friends will return with their very popular valve cover races for the kids as well as a display of vintage trucks. A contingent of Civil War re-enactors will be in Habert Park where they will appear in cos- tume and engage the chil- dren in games appropri- ate to the Civil War period while they engage adults in conversation about the American Civil War itself. April Pryor will be by the raffle table under the trees where she will ap- ply her elementary school teaching background to activities for the kids. There will be food pro- vided entirely through a very supportive grant by the Sierra Pacific Foun- dation and prepared by the Central Tehama Ki- wanis Club 8-10 a.m. for an eggs, pancake and sausage breakfast and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a burg- ers and salad lunch from on the front lawn of the museum. The Tehama County Museum is at 275 C St. in the city of Tehama and is open 1-4 p.m. every Saturday or by appoint- ment. The museum may be reached at 384-2595 or by writing to tcmuse@te- hama.net. TEHAMA COUNTY MUSEUM Bradshaw joins staff just in time for Jubilee MeganBradshaw Visitors are invited to join the 6th Annual Har- vest Festival 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 17 at the park's Tower House Historic District at Whis- keytown National Recre- ation Area. This fun and family friendly event will feature the tasting of rare heirloom apple varieties, an apple dessert bake-off contest be- tween local vendors, games for all ages, and light re- freshments provided by the Friends of Whiskey- town. Additionally, there will be fiddle music from the Down Home String Band, horse packing and "Leave No Trace" demon- strations presented by the Backcountry Horsemen of California, and the festival will also feature orchard tours by renowned arbor- ist Rico Montenegro. The Tower House His- toric District, listed on the National Register of His- toric Places, encompasses 20 acres and 16 structures and is home to 148 historic fruit trees. This area is sig- nificant because of the con- tributions of Levi Tower and Charles Camden in the development of com- merce, transportation, ag- riculture, and industry in Northern California in the two decades following the discovery of gold in 1848. Levi Tower was famous for his orchards, gardens and his hotel. The landscape in this area is a critical part of the story to be told in that it was described as "oasis- like" and a major attraction in the day. Tower planted the first peach trees north of Sacramento and was possibly the first person to experiment in the rais- ing of fruit and berries in Shasta County. He planted more than 1,000 fruit trees around the Tower House. It was so famous a landmark that it appeared on county and state maps for more than a century. Today there are only remnants of the lush gar- dens and orchards, which offers visitors a glimpse into the past. The apple dessert bake- off will be between local vendors and visitors will judge the best tasting cre- ations. More than 15 varieties of heirloom apples fresh- picked from the same trees harvested during the Cal- ifornia Gold Rush Era will be available to taste. Harvest festival partic- ipants should park in the Tower House Historic Dis- trict parking lot and follow the footpath to the Cam- den House where festivi- ties will be held. Overflow parking will be across the highway at the junction of Trinity Moun- tain Road and State Route 299, where visitors will be encouraged to take a walk- ing path that passes under the highway along Clear Creek. The day-use fee will be waived for those partic- ipating in the Harvest Fes- tival. For more information, call Jennifer Gibson at 242- 3457. For more informa- tion on Whiskeytown Na- tional Recreation Area, call or stop by the Visitor Cen- ter 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. or visit www.nps.gov/whis. WHISKEYTOWN Ha rv es t fe st iv al S ep t. 1 7 to c el eb ra te f al l se as on You may discover you made a mistake on your tax return. You can file an amended return if you need to fix an error. You can also amend your tax return to claim a tax credit or deduction. Here are 10 tips from the IRS on amending your return: 1. When to amend. You should amend your tax re- turn if you need to cor- rect filing status, the num- ber of dependents or to- tal income. You should also amend your return to claim tax deductions or tax credits that you did not claim when you filed your original return. The instructions for Form 1040X, Amended U.S. Indi- vidual Income Tax Return, list more reasons to amend a return. 2.Whennottoamend.In some cases, you don't need to amend your tax return. The IRS will make correc- tions, such as math errors, for you. If you didn't in- clude a required form or schedule, for example, the IRS will mail you a notice about the missing item. 3. Form 1040X. Use Form 1040X to amend a federal income tax return that you filed before. You must file it by paper; you cannot file it electronically. Make sure you check the box at the top of the form that shows which year you are amending. Form 1040X has three columns. Column A shows amounts from the original return. Column B shows the net increase or decrease for the amounts you are changing. Column C shows the corrected amounts. You should ex- plain what you are chang- ing and the reasons why on the back of the form. 4. More than one tax year. If you file an amended return for more than one year, use a sep- arate 1040X for each tax year. Mail them in separate envelopes to the IRS. See "Where to File" in the in- structionsfor Form 1040X for the address you should use. 5. Other forms or sched- ules. If your changes have to do with other tax forms or schedules,make sureyou attach them to Form 1040X when you file the form. If you don't, this will cause a delay in processing. 6. Amending to claim an additional refund. If you are waiting for a re- fund from your original tax return, don't file your amended return until after you receive the refund. You may cash the refund check from your original return. Amended returns take up to 16 weeks to process. You will receive any additional refund you are owed. 7. Amending to pay ad- ditional tax. If you're fil- ing an amended tax return because you owe more tax, you should file Form 1040X and pay the tax as soon as possible. This will limit in- terest and penalty charges. 8. Reconciling the Pre- mium Tax Credit. You may also want to file an amended return if you filed and incorrectly claimed a premium tax credit, or you received a corrected or voided Form 1095-A. For more information, go to www.irs.gov and see Cor- rected, Incorrect or Voided Forms 1095-A for Tax Years 2014 and 2015. 9. When to file. To claim a refund file Form 1040X no more than three years from the date you filed your original tax return. You can also file it no more than two years from the date you paid the tax, if that date is later than the three-year rule. 10. Track your re- turn. You can track the status of your amended tax return three weeks after you file with "Where's My Amended Return?"This tool is available on IRS. gov or by phone at 866- 464-2050. You can get Form 1040X on IRS.gov/forms at any time. IRS Tips on filing an amended tax return PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. 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