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2A Daily News – Saturday, June 30, 2012 Community The Senior Nutrition Program serves meals Monday through Friday at the Red Bluff Community-Senior Center, the Corning Senior Center and the Los Molinos Veterans Hall. For those guests under the age of 60, the guest charge is $6. A donation is not a requirement for you to receive a meal if you qualify for the program. Reservations must be made a minimum of one day in The suggested donation for seniors 60 and older is $2.75. Sweet & sour meatballs, green & yellow squash, can- taloupe, wheat roll, pineapple pudding Tuesday Week of July 2-6 Monday BBQ chicken, baked bean medley, macaroni salad, cranberry juice, watermelon Wednesday Crab cake, orange rice, peas & carrots, 3-bean salad, Mandarin oranges Friday Closed for the Holiday Thursday Chinese chicken salad, pineapple chunks, Mandarin oranges, wontons, fortune cookies Healthy Heart Day Hawaiian-themed 30-year class reunion July 20-22 at the Elks Lodge, 355 Gilmore Road, Red Bluff. The three-day event includes a Friday Night Mixer at 5 p.m. with a no-host bar; a Saturday Night Hawaiian Luau from 3 p.m.-midnight featuring a mix 'n' mingle, a raffle, no- host cocktails, a buffet dinner and dancing to a DJ; and a Sunday Family Barbecue from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with hot dogs and hamburgers. RBUHSClass of 1982 Red Bluff Union High School's Class of '82 presents its Hawaiian Luau is $50 per classmate, $30 per guest by July 1 and $55 per classmate, $35 per guest by July 10. The class- mate price includes a class photo and reunion booklet. The Sunday Family Barbecue is $10 per person. T-shirts are $15, and raffle tickets are $1 each. Classmates must reg- ister and pre-pay by July 10 for the Saturday and Sunday events. Online registration (and a snail mail option) is avail- able at www.rbuhsclassof1982.webs.com. For more infor- mation, contact Julie Walters Curl, 530-527-0888; LaRae (Winstead) Pfeffen, 916-723-2315; Karen Owens-Fyfe, 661-733-5454. The Friday Night Mixer is free. The Saturday Night 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. Senior Menu Wow, what a week! people&events advance by calling 527-2414. Two percent milk is served with each meal. Menu is sub- ject to change. It is time for a column and already many items on my mind, some helpful, some not worth a dime. Each day has surprises, both wonderful and horrible. Decisions must be made, frustrations to be cooled, messages of importance to be addressed and solved, messages of importance to be tackled imme- diately. face. I am currently listening to the "The Doctors." This TV show has many surprising medical issues. It seems that lately a large number of medical topics have caused me to do some pretty important checking on a variety of happenings. It was very helpful in the area of medical needs and actions. Okay, so the day is going pretty good after all, I think I will take a break and pick up the mail. Hmm, okay this is an advertisement, and this is a WHAT? fornia, Parking Violations Bureau! Addressed to myself and my hus- band! I quickly ripped open the strange letter only to discover that a parking citation had been issued to our vehicle. I was not speechless, I was down right angry. It seems that a vehicle of the color white, a Honda had been illegally parked with our own car's license number. OUR CAR IS NOT A WHITE HONDA! YES, I was as angry as I could get. Our car had never set foot anywhere in the city of Los Angeles, CA. It is most- ly parked in our own Red Bluff, CA driveway. Was I angry? You bet your life! Angry, frustrated and exhausted was shown all over my The City of Los Angeles, Cali- I immediately made the effort to call the numbers listed on the L.A. letter. First time to call the numbers on the letter responded that one number was no longer used, the second numbered answered as if a machine sound was breaking the inner ear of anyone who dialed the number. Need- less to say I was totally dis- gusted. The next day I managed to receive mechanical message which continually asked me to hit numbers, 1,2,3,4, or more. I did just that and after two tries I realized that I would never be able to talk to an actual human being on the telephone. a was that I could send some kind of letter that would give them the mes- sage that we did not believe that our car was the one that was cited. We were then given an address to send our complaints to City of Los Angeles Parking Violations Bureau and they would consider whether we must pay an unknown fine of $88.00! Husband and I finally hung up our phones. I took pictures of my own "red" car, on all sides. I have made two copies just in case the Parking Violations Bureau loses our documents that we will put into the mail tomorrow. I will be writing a very clear letter as to why we should not be fined when we don't even have a car that they described. Do I think the powers that be will jump at the chance to disregard One such mechanical declaration Carolyn Barber ing Violations Bureau with an attached "Return Requested Tag." If any of you readers out there will consider saying a prayer for this red hot challenge, we will be exceed- ingly thankful. the $88.00 Fine? Many people who have had sim- ilar notices said it was extremely difficult to get the Los Angeles Parking Viola- tions Bureau to respond to the information given them. I believe I will continue to note that we do not own the car that they attached a parking citation to the body of a white Hondo. We will continue t0 state that nei- ther, husband or I have driven any car to Los Angeles. We will have sent our documents to L.A. Park- I will be spending a good bit of time constructing our letter to the L.A. Parking Violations Bureau. I will frame the proper sentences regarding the mistake of the mys- tery fine on a car that definitely has never been owned by us. courage I muster up reminds me of the following statement made by an extremely knowledgeable woman. Courage — "You must do the thing you think you cannot do." - Eleanor Roosevelt The Carolyn Barber has been writing her column in the Daily News since 1992. It appears on Saturdays. She can be contacted by e-mail at hurcar@yahoo.com. have been with my husband more than 20 years. We have never been separat- ed, even for a few days. We have stuck it out through the good, the bad and the horrible. We have two Will marriage change after kids graduate? 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O. Ballard and was placed in the county jail pending further proceedings. — June 30, 1922 July 21st , 2012 1 Day Only!!! 90 years ago... Dear Patty: It's true that once the kids leave the nest, some couples discover that they have nothing else in common. But most couples use this time to revitalize their marriages and enjoy things they could not do when raising children. This actually can be the best time of your married life. boys who are about to graduate high school, and I am wondering how this will affect our relationship. I am scared that he won't find our life together interesting without any kids to keep things active. I worry that the kids have been the knot that has kept us together. Will change split us up? — Patty that first attracted you to your husband. Start culti- vating interests that don't involve your kids, but in which you and your hus- band can participate Think of the qualities Mailbox by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar month. And you do not have to do everything together. You and your husband undoubtedly have hobbies you'd like to devote time to now that you can, and they don't have to be joint activities. It's OK to have your own interests. It will give you something to talk about over dinner. together: gym memberships, book clubs, com- munity choirs, dance lessons, travel, whatever could be fun for both of you. Plan a romantic vaca- tion. Become members of a local theater troupe. Schedule a cooking class together once a father, I was deeply offended by the piece you published on Mother's Day indicating that Mom did all kinds of work while Dad watched TV and then went to bed. The portrayal of fathers as lazy, clueless couch pota- toes is antiquated. My wife and I both work full time. I changed as many diapers as did my wife and took my daughter to day care, swimming lessons and soccer prac- tice. Dear Annie: As a I still do all of the gro- cery shopping, yard work and home repairs, most of the cooking and at least half of the laundry and housecleaning. I am not the only husband who does this. — Burlington, VT Dear Burlington: We were surprised at the number of people who objected to the essay we ran on Mother's Day. Read on: From Redondo Beach, Calif.: I'm a retired ob-gyn. My starter wife had two children from a previous marriage, and we had two of our own. She did not work outside the home, but she had a housekeeper, a gar- dener and a pool guy, all bought with the income from my medical practice. My income also bought our house, the kitchen in which she made the sand- wiches, the food in the freezer and the electricity to keep it running. I bought the clothes in the laundry, the dog, Mom's moisturizer and tooth- paste. When I came home, I'd snuggle with the kids and then sit on the couch and watch the evening news while Mom pre- pared dinner. Occasional- ly, I'd doze off, and Mom would chastise me, even though my day began at 2 a.m. with a patient. Mississippi: In the future, would you please omit the phrase about Mom putting the cat out? As an animal rights activist, I can tell you that letting pets roam puts them into a plethora of grave dangers. Texas: The headline in my local paper said, ''Take time to appreciate all moms.'' I disagree. It should read MOST moms. My mother abused me throughout my grow- ing years, and I never heard her say anything positive or encouraging. When she attempted the same with my daughters, that was the last straw. Boston: I loved the piece on what the Mom and Dad do before they go to bed. Very amusing, and how true! What about adding one more sen- tence? Dad says: ''I'm going to bed. What do you mean you're not in the mood?'' Annie's Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. 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