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2A Daily News – Saturday, July 21, 2012 Community people&events 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. Senior menu $2.75. 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 Turkey & Cheese Deli; w/Lettuce, Onion & Tomato 3- Bean Salad; Cranberry Juice; Wheat Bread; Cinnamon Applesauce Tuesday Week of July 23-27 Monday Beef Fajitas; Spanish Rice; Refried Beans; Tortilla; Mango Chicken Parmesan; Cauliflower; Pineapple Orange Juice; Seasoned Bread Stick; Apple Crisp Wednesday ETHNIC DAY Pulled Pork Sandwich; Black Bean Salad; Macaroni Salad; Strawberries; Pumpkin Cake Friday Thursday Coney Island Dog on Bun; Potato Salad; Colorful Coleslaw; Luau Fruit Slow Food event today Farwood Bar and Grill 12 tastes of 2012 and Slow Food Shasta-Cascade will present a summer bash 2-5 p.m. today in Orland. There will be seven varieties of Sierra Nevada beer paired with local food and local vendors will sample and sell their products. Cost is $10 — free to slow food members. Farwood is on the corner of Hwy. 32 — also called Walk- er Street — and Fifth Street at 705 Fifth St. in Orland. For more information, visit www.farwoodbarandgrill.com/index.html or call 865-9900. Save the date for Sunday, Sept. 9 Field to Fork event at Maywood Farms in Corning. There will be brunch, fig judg- ing and farm tours. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. 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. advance by calling 527-2414. Two percent milk is served with each meal. Menu is subject to change. Cognitive nurturing of the brain For some reason I kept finding things to do that interfered with my completing my column for this week. Did I not have any ideas? Not the case this time, the problem was I had too many ideas and need- ed to focus on one or two so that the other interests would not distract me. In my supreme effort to con- centrate on one idea I resorted to praying a prayer of desperation; "Dear Lord, help me pick a topic I can focus on, one that might be of interest to at least a handful of read- ers." Did a bolt of lightening descend from the heavens and spread a banner with an answer? No I am afraid not, however my mind did settle down after the prayer, I indulged myself in some creative activities instead of doing the always present, "have to do tasks." A little flower arranging here, a little poem writing there and I began to think in a somewhat more focused and organized man- ner. My thoughts traveled to the sub- ject of brain processing. I began to remember some recent writings I had perused in line of my day job. The articles had to do with the actions and the processing of the human brain. A few people in the crowd of acquaintances that cross paths with me have expressed some similar concerns about brain processing saying that often a well known name of someone they know escapes them at the moment it is needed and comes to their mind sometime during the midnight hours. Others have regular routine exercises they do to keep the mind sharp, like doing crossword puzzles or acrostic word puzzles. Some people take the physical approach and take routine walks or put in a few hours every day at the health club exercising. think it is helping with our brain processing; the fact is that several of us still have what is referred to as "senior moments." You have heard of the term, it is a gentle way of say- ing that we are becoming: "chrono- logically more mature." We all The articles I referred to previ- ously are written by Robert Syl- wester, Ed.D, who writes a month- ly column on the subject of scien- tific and technological develop- ments that pose problems for edu- cational policy and practice. DAILYNEWS HOW TO REACH US RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 VOLUME 127, NUMBER 180 On the Web: www.redbluffdailynews.com MAIN OFFICE: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Main Phone (530) 527-2151 Outside area (800) 479-6397 545 Diamond Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ Fax: (530) 527-5774 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. 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Volbrecht Buys Block On Walnut Street For $6000 Richard Volbrecht, a local barber, is reported to have purchased the brick block on Walnut Street now occupied by a shoe repairing shop and a restaurant. He bought the property of Mrs. Frank Morse of Sacramento, who formerly resided in Red bluff and was Miss Frankie Albright. — July 21, 1922 wester (no not Sylvester, the "w" in his name is correct), is an Emeritus Professor of Education at the Uni- versity of Oregon. He has written several books and over 150 journal articles on the subject of the brain. In one of his columns he refers to the writing of Elkhonon Goldberg who has written the book, The Para- dox of Wisdom: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your Brain Grows Older (2005). Goldberg has drawn on extensive cognitive neu- roscience research and his own Syl- experience as a clinical neuropsy- chologist to write about a positive possibility of cognitive potential especially in the elderly. Hmmm, I wonder if that includes the "chronologi- cally more mature". He presents the fact that com- petence represents our abil- ity to relate new challenges to existing knowledge or skills, and wisdom repre- sents its supreme manifes- tation. He states that talent suggests promise, compe- tence its realization. Talent and genius are commonly associated with youth, and wisdom with maturity. An example of this is Albert Ein- stein an exhibited genius at age 26 when he proposed his theories of relativity – but wisdom in his sixties when he advised the US govern- ment on issues related to nuclear energy and war. It seems wisdom paradox is that our potential for wisdom emerges as our body begins its inevitable decline. Aging is thus the price of wisdom, but wisdom itself is priceless. Goldberg suggests that the fun- damental organizing principle for the right and left hemispheres out of an important question a brain must ask wherever danger or opportunity looms: Have I confronted this chal- lenge before? He refers to the orga- nizing principle for the right and left hemispheres of the brain. The right hemisphere (in most humans) is organized to process novel chal- lenges and the left hemisphere to process familiar routines. We humans process strange faces in our right hemisphere, and familiar faces in the left hemisphere. Both hemi- spheres are active in processing most cognitive functions, the rela- tive level of involvement shifts from the right to left hemisphere over time, and with increased familiarity and competence. The exploratory right hemi- sphere is thus organized to rapidly and creatively respond to a novel challenge, but the more stable pro- cessing systems in the left hemi- sphere eventually transform the successful initial responses into an efficient established routine that we activate whenever the challenge or something close to it reoccurs. Negative emotions are processed principally in our right brain and positive emotions in the left brain. Goldberg says it makes sense to be wary about a novel challenge, and positive about a familiar challenge with an existing effective solution. (Wisdom) As we age or become "chrono- logically more mature" we may resent novel challenges, (change) because we lack the requisite ener- gy they require. This is sometimes referred to as "being set in our ways". In youth much time and energy is spent on play/game activ- Volunteers sought • The Health Insurance Counseling and Advocacy Pro- gram at Passages Adult Resource Center has ongoing recruitment for volunteers to be advocates on behalf of Medicare beneficiaries. Volunteers help to explain Medicare benefits and serve as advocates to help Medicare patients access the health care benefits. Infor- mation and application packets are available at 898-6716. • St. Elizabeth Community Hospital Auxiliary needs volunteers to assist in different areas of the hospital; front information desk, gift shop, and patient services. Information is available from Annemarie at 529-8002. • The Tehama County Team of the Long-Term Care Ombudsmen needs volunteers to become advocates for residents in skilled nursing and residential care facili- ties for the elderly. Training is provided. Information is available at 898-5923. Courtesy photo Omar Mendoza's 2nd- and 3rd-graders in Metteer Summer SERRF are thankful for bees. Students surprised more than 100 students and staff recently with a fresh fruit smoothie made in the classroom using apple juice, strawberries, man- gos, bananas, raspberries and peaches. The stu- dents are learning about how bees and people get along. Thanks to bees we have many good foods to eat in addition to delicious honey. K W I K K U T S Family Hair Salon $200 REGULAR HAIRCUT off with coupon Not good with other offers 1064 South Main St., Red Bluff • 529-3540 Reg. $13.95 Expires 7/31/12 NOW OPEN Amazing Finds RED BLUFF 530-917-1138 REDDING 530-917-7797 22660 Antelope Blvd. NEW & USED FURNITURE & MUCH, MUCH MORE! Two Locations - 30,000 square feet amazingfindsredbluff.com 3351 S. Market St. 9am – 8pm (closed Saturdays) 9am – 6:30pm daily amazingfindshome.com LOWEST PRICES GUARANTEED Carolyn Barber ities that prepare them for adult challenges. It also appears that such physical and cognitive exer- cise is equally important later in life. "Children prepare for a qualitative life, the aged seek to maintain it." Wisdom emerges in older people who have developed a large resource of useful solutions to life's chal- lenges-and can effective- ly incorporate them into the resolution of new challenges. Young people (chronological less mature) live in the here and now and don't actually recog- nize or give credit of wisdom of elders who often decry current cul- ture and talk and yearn of the old days. Goldberg suggests that per- haps we "chronologically more mature" people may benefit from having a cognitive personal trainer (like personal trainers in a fitness center) who can help with what's here and now in the cognitive life of the elderly. called teachers in the early part of our life, those people who can diag- nose cognitive needs and guide their resolution. Some older folks might see this as somewhat like what they needed when they began Kindergarten. These helpers are The whole gist of this brain thing is that it has become increasingly important to enhance our cognitive as well as our physical well-being through- out our lives. Many of my cogni- tive coaches are my grandchil- dren and those in my work place and space that is younger I am. Now I realize I can return the favor of their contributed knowl- edge with a large dash of wis- dom. I may do this while remi- niscing about the good old days when we used manual typewrit- ers instead of computers, hand held palms, digital cameras, i- pods and used ordinary caps on medicine bottles that were not child-proof and could be removed by the most arthritic of hands. In reality most of current technology has served us well most of the failed technology could improve by adding a huge dash of wisdom. I believe I will get on the inter- net and order that book by E.Gold- berg, "The Paradox of Wisdom: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger as Your BrainGrows Older." I can use the best of tech- nology while studying the cogni- tive writings on the nurturing of my brain. 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 hur- car@yahoo.com. Students all get bees