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CONTRIBUTEDPHOTO NorthridgeEyeCare,formerlyat1056WashingtonSt.,welcomesDr.StacyCullum,formerlyat444UnionSt.,toits new state of the art Eye Care Center at 530 Main St. The new office opened Monday and hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays. The business is accepting new patients. Pictured at the Thursday ribbon cutting are Dr. Brian Haugen, Dr. Stacy Cullum, Dr. Michael Merry, Penny Haugen, Steve Haugen, Trisha Haugen, Lexi Haugen, Dave Gowan, Lisa Hansen, Kim Berry, Lois Rogan, Ryan Stephens, Scott Camp, Clay Parker, Suzanne Birch, Vicki Stroud, JB Stacy, Tiffany Eaton, Krystal Todd, Sue Ampi, Amanda Jenkins, Christine Janc, Linda Jensen, Savannah Kenyon, Dulce Garcia, Wanda Feeney, Robin Bavier Nancy Gabdios, and Jamie Robertson. RIBBONCUTTING EYE CARE CENTER OPENS SeeyouSaturdayatthe Market by the River from 7:30 a.m. to noon at River Park. Come get some de- licious certified produce and meet great vendors. Fairweek Come on out Thurs- day through Sunday. For more information or tick- ets, please call 527-5920 or visit tehamadistrict- fair.com. Daily schedule of activ- ities during the 96th An- nual Tehama District Fair, Sept. 22-25, is available on line and in the Daily News starting Wednesday. Voters night The Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce and the Sun- rise Rotary are hosting a Red Bluff Voters Night at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11. The doors will open at 5:30 p.m. to meet candidates and write out questions to place in the question box. The Red Bluff City Coun- cil candidates will be an- swering questions with our moderator. Also, local experts with address measures and propositions that have lo- cal significance. Snacks will be provided and the event will be at the Veterans Hall, 735 Oak St. Thanks to sponsors Thank you to all of the 2016 Annual Dinner Spon- sors. Gold Sponsors: Walker Printing, Red Bluff Dodge, PG&E, Tri Counties Bank, Rolling Hills Casino, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Lassen Medical Group Silver Sponsors: Blunk- all & Napier, Express Em- ployment Pros, Comfort Inn, MNS Designs, Green Waste of Tehama, Ben's Trucking Bronze Sponsors: Sta- ples, Zelma's, Jack in the Box, Northern California Title, Shasta.com Table Sponsors: Tehama County CattleWomen, Blunkall & Napier, Amer- ican Embroidery Mart, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Lassen Medical Group, Express Employ- ment Pros, Lariat Bowl, North Valley Services, Cheryl Forbes, Umpqua Bank, Rape Crisis Cen- ter, Tehama District Fair- ground, Red Bluff Commu- nity Center Networking Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce network- ing event Good Morning, Red Bluff is scheduled for 7:50-9 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 29 at Kelly-Griggs House Museum, 311 Washington St. Come out for this ex- cellent event and sample some great food. RED BLUFF CHAMBER Last Market by the River of the season The Corning Chamber of Commerce would like to welcome The Greatful Dog as a new member. Located at 1600 Solono St., Ste. C, it is a dog groom- ing business and can be reached at 824-5499. Grand opening The grand opening for Olive City Pharmacy, at 954 99W, is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Sept. 23 and 24, and the business would like to invite its neighbors to experience the unique services that will make this pharmacy a special part of the community. The grand opening will take place from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. The rib- bon cutting ceremony will be held at noon on Friday. Both days will include food and refreshments, special customer giveaway while supplies last and a grand prize drawing to win a Kindle Fire or FitBit. Olive City Pharmacy is a full service pharmacy open six days a week. For further information, call Charlie Williams at 824-0954. Fair kicks off Don't forget that the 96th annual Tehama Dis- trict Fair will kick off this Thursday through Sunday at the Tehama County Dis- trict Fairground, 650 Ante- lope Blvd. in Red Bluff. A multitude of activities will guarantee to keep you busy. For more information, visit www.tehamadistrict- fair.com or call 527-5920. Bunco fundraiser The Ladies of Xi Mu Chi will be holding a Bunco Fundraiser Night on Mon- day, Sept. 26. The event kicks off at the Corning Senior Center, 1015 4th St., at 5:30 p.m. with a tri-tip sandwich dinner. The games begin at 6:30 p.m. Cost is $10 for Bunco, $5 for dinner. Tickets can be purchased at the door or from any Xi Mu Chi member. For more information, call Linda Johnson at 586-0759. Olive Festival The Corning Chamber of Commerce is getting ready for this year's Olive Festival on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the Corning Community Park. If you are a vendor, have a parade entry or would like to enter either the bed races or the barbecue competi- tion and would like more information or applications regarding this, please con- tact the Chamber of Com- merce at 824-5550. For more information about these or other Corn- ing Chamber of Commerce events, call 824-5550, visit www.corningchamber.org or like the chamber on Fa- cebook. CORNING CHAMBER Dog groomer is newest chamber member By Ken Sweet TheAssociatedPress NEW YORK When Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf tes- tifies before a Senate com- mittee hearing Tuesday, it won't be just his bank un- der fire for turning friendly branches into high-pressure sales centers. It'll be the en- tire industry. Wells Fargo is in the spot- light now after its employ- ees allegedly opened up to 2 million bank and credit card accounts, transferred customers' money without telling them and even cre- ated fake email addresses to sign people up for online banking in an effort to meet lofty sales goals. But cross-selling, as it is called, is the lifeblood of the entire retail banking indus- try. Other banks don't face allegations of fraud, like Wells Fargo is, but experts say the industry as a whole engages in high-pressure sales tactics. Once custom- ers open a basic savings or checking account, banks give them the hard sell to sign up for even more, whether that's a credit card or a mortgage or a retire- ment account. Overdraft protection was one common tactic, former Wells bankers said, telling customers to open an ad- ditional savings account to put aside money to cover overdrafts even though the customer didn't have the re- sources to fund the account. Or getting the customer to open a new credit card just for overdraft protection. Surveys done last year by consulting firm cg42 showed that roughly 40 percent of Wells Fargo cus- tomers asked said their No. 1 complaint was employees' constant pushing of prod- ucts the customers did not need or want. But custom- ers at other banks made similar complaints. Of Bank of America customers, 31 percent said they felt overly pressured for products they didn't want or need. At both Chase and Citigroup, that figure was 27 percent. "Bank of America, Citi, Chase were all envious of Wells' ability to cross-sell as well as they did," said Steve Beck, a managing partner with cg42. While customers com- plained of overly aggres- sive sales tactics, none of the other banks have been accused of wrongdoing ex- cept Wells. SALES TACTICS Banks focus more on new accounts — and the fees By Jeff Martin The Associated Press ATLANTA Gas prices spiked and drivers found "out of service" bags cov- ering pumps as the gas shortage in the South rolled into the work week, raising fears that the scat- tered disruptions could be- come more widespread. The shortage is blamed on a pipeline rupture and leak of at least 252,000 gal- lons (954,000 liters) of gas in Alabama. The pipeline company has two main lines and said Monday that it is shipping "significant volumes" on the second of the two lines to limit the impact of the interruption on the other line. Colonial Pipeline said it was working "around the clock" to repair the break and supplies have either been delivered or are on their way to locations in Alabama, Georgia, Ten- nessee, South Carolina, and North Carolina. Still, some motor- ists discovered bone-dry pumps. Lindsey Paluka, 28, stopped at a Shell gas sta- tion in the East Atlanta neighborhood only to find a gas pump handle cov- ered by a black garbage bag. "I'm definitely on empty, so I'm going to have to fig- ure something out," she said. Alpharetta, Georgia- based Colonial has ac- knowledged that between 252,000 gallons (954,000 liters) and 336,000 gal- lons (1,272,000 liters) of gasoline leaked from a pipeline near Helena, Al- abama, since the spill was first detected Sept. 9. It's unclear when the spill ac- tually began. According to a prelimi- nary report, it wasn't pos- sible to immediately pin- point the leak, partly be- cause highly flammable benzene and gasoline va- pors hung in the air and prevented firefighters, company officials and any- one else from being near the site for more than three days. State workers discov- ered the leak when they noticed a strong gasoline odor and sheen on a pond, along with dead vegeta- tion nearby, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration said in the report. The report does not identify the cause of the leak. The agency, part of the U.S. Department of Transportation, is investi- gating the leak in a section of the pipeline constructed in 1963, it said. 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