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The following infor- mation is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff 's Department, Corning Police Department and California Highway Patrol. Theft •A tip jar containing $10 was reported stolen from a Main Street business. •A check was reported stolen Friday afternoon on Sacramento Avenue. •A wallet was reported stolen Friday afternoon on Kimball Road. It is believed the wallet may have been stolen March 6, when it was left in an unlocked vehicle. The wal- let reportedly contained $780 cash, a Social Securi- ty card, a Wells Fargo bank card and a driver's license. Odd Friday morning a person reported giving a suitcase with a pair of diamond ear- rings inside to the Hospice Secondhand Thrift store. By the time the person con- tacted police, the suitcase had been sold. Monday, March 15, 2010 – Daily News – 3A CHINESE RESTAURANT 945 S. Main St. (Between Raley's & Wal-Mart) (530) 529-1198 ABC Monday thru Sunday 11AM-9PM NEW OWNERSHIP OPEN DAILY Buy 2 GET 1 FREE of equal or less value Lunch & Dinner Specials $ 8 99 Specials pecials 645 Antelope Blvd. #1 in Frontier Village across from the fairgrounds. • (530) 527-1420 $ 7 99 Breakfast Corned Beef & Eggs $ 7 99 Lunch Grilled Reuben Sandwich Dinner Traditional Corned Beef & Cabbage SACRAMENTO (AP) — The winning numbers in Saturday evening's drawing of the California Lot- tery's ''SuperLotto Plus'' game were: 09-15-20-24-43, Mega Ball: 2 Lotto numbers Local Calendar To add an upcoming event in the Local Calendar, submit information well in advance to the Daily News, attention Calendar, P.O. Box 220, Red Bluff, 96080 or e-mail to clerk@redbluffdailynews.com. Include a contact name and telephone number. MONDAY, MARCH 15 Red Bluff Al-Anon, 6 p.m., Presbyterian Church, Jefferson and Hickory Gastric Bypass Support Group, 6 p.m., St. Eliza- beth Community Hospital, Columba room, 529-3066 Gerber Elementary School Board, 6 p.m., Gerber School, 23014 Chard Ave. HIRE (Head Injury Recreational Entity), 10 a.m., St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Coyne Center, Rusty, 529-2059 Key to Life, 6 p.m., Red Bluff Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Suite 101, 528-8066 Red Bluff Community Band, 6:45-8:45 p.m., Red Bluff Community and Senior Center, 1500 S. Jackson St., 527-3486 Retired and Active Federal Employees, 11:30 a.m., Elks Lodge, 585-2494 Sun Country Quilters Community Service Group, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Red Bluff Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Suite 101, 528-8066 Tehama County Military Family Support Group, 6 p.m., Green Barn, 529-1852 Corning Kirkwood School Board, 5 p.m., 2049 Kirkwood Road Narcotics Anonymous, 7 p.m., 815 First St., 385- 1169 or 566-5270, daily through Saturday, noon Mon- days and no meeting the third Wednesday Sewing group, 9 a.m., Corning Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Spanish Adult Education, 5 p.m., Corning Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Strategies for Success, Life Skill classes, 1:30 p.m., Corning Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824-7670 Los Molinos Senior Dance, 7 p.m., Los Molinos Sr. Social Club, Los Molinos Senior Center, Josephine St. Gerber Gerber Union Elementary School Board, 6 p.m., 23014 Chard Ave. Flournoy Flournoy Elementary School Board, 6 p.m., 16850 Paskenta Road TUESDAY, MARCH 16 Red Bluff City Council, 7 p.m. City Hall, 555 Washington St. Diabetic Education, 12:30 p.m. St. Elizabeth Com- munity Hospital, Columba Room, 529-8031 Playtime Pals Playgroup, 9:30 a.m., Red Bluff Family Resource Center, 220 Sycamore St. Suite 101, 528-8066 Red Bluff Rotary, noon, Elks Lodge Tehama County Board of Supervisors, 10 a.m., board chamber, 727 Oak St. Tehama County Resource Conservation Dis- trict, 8 a.m., USDA Service Center, 2 Sutter St., Ste. D Tehama County Patriots, 6 p.m., Trinity Landmark Missionary Church, 20920 Hampton Rhodes Drive Tehama District Fair board, 1 p.m., Tehama Dis- trict Fairground, 650 Antelope Blvd. Corning Planning Commission, 6:30 p.m., city hall, 794 Third St. Spanish Adult Education, 1:30 p.m., Corning Family Resource Center, West and South streets, 824- 7670 Tehama County Health Partnership, 1-3 p.m., City Hall, 794 Third St. Tehama County Society for Crippled Children and Adults, Elks Lodge, noon Cottonwood Cottonwood Community Library Readers Club, 4 p.m., 347-4818 Los Molinos Bingo, doors open at 4:30 p.m., dinner, Early Bird round 6:15 p.m., regular session 6:30 p.m., Los Moli- nos Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, 7900 Sherwood Blvd., 384-2738. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 Red Bluff Adult Wood Carving Class, 10 a.m. to noon, Veterans Memorial Hall, 735 Oak St., 824-5669 Al-Anon, noon to 1 p.m., Presbyterian Church, Jefferson and Hickory Blood Drive, sponsored by Emblem club, Red Bluff Veterans Memorial building, Oak and Jackson, 2 to 6 p.m. Tehama County Mental Health Board, noon, Tehama County Health Services, 1860 Main St. Simple trick to stop mindless spending Most of us think of spending money in the least painful terms. I suppose that's only natural. If we could see clearly how a simple pur- chase fits into the big finan- cial picture, perhaps spending money on little stuff wouldn't be quite so easy. According to Starbucks, the average customer spends $4.05 per visit for coffee and makes 18 visits per month. I'm fairly certain that most of these customers think of that as a series of $4.05 expendi- tures because it's less painful than seeing it as an $874 annual expense, spent $4.05 at a time. Get into the habit of quickly cal- culating the annualized costs of things and you'll achieve an effec- tive way to get mindless spending under control. Here's the rule: Take a monthly figure, and then add a zero plus a little. Say you spend $5 a week in the vending machine at work. That $5 weekly expense is about $20 a month. Now add a zero ($200) plus a little (say, $50), which makes it $250 a year. Let's check the num- bers: $5 x 52 equals $260. Pretty close. Do you get it? Adding a zero to a monthly expense gives you a 10-month equivalent. Adding a lit- tle accounts for the other two months in a year. Here's another example. Heather gets her nails done every two weeks at a cost of $20 per visit. That's about $40 a month. Times 10, that's $400. Adding a little, say, $85, makes it $485. Again, let's check the numbers: $20 x 26 equals $520. Not far off - - and shocking when Heather has been trivial- izing this as just a little something she does for herself. Don't get me wrong. I'm not against nail appointments. I just want you and Heather to know the true cost of what you believe to be insignificant expendi- tures. Most people think of their incomes in loose, inflated terms. Take Tom and Susan. They live in the false securi- ty of a $50,000 income, as in "We make $50,000 a year, so we should be able to buy what we want with- out feeling guilty." The truth is Tom makes $48,275 a year, which is close, but not exact- ly $50,000. Allowing for taxes and other payroll deductions, their take- home pay is something closer to $35,000. Of that amount, their actu- al discretionary income (what's left after allowing for essentials of food, shelter, insurance, transportation, etc.) is more like $5,000, hardly the fictional $50,000 on which they base their lifestyle. With practice, Tom and Sue can get real about their income by thinking in more realistic terms. They might make close to $50,000 a year, but they have just $450 cash to spend each month. That makes blowing a hundred bucks here or $4.05 there more significant. Start annualizing your spending, and think of your income in realistic terms. It's painful at first, but once you get past the shock, it will keep your financial feet planted in reality. Even better, money will stop dribbling out of your life. Mary Hunt is the founder of www.DebtProofLiving.com and author of 18 books, including her latest, "Can I Pay My Credit Card Bill With a Credit Card?" You can e- mail her at mary@everydaycheapskate.com, or write to Everyday Cheapskate, P.O. Box 2135, Paramount, CA 90723. Mary Hunt Everyday Cheapskate Obituary BENJAMIN TERRENCE KLUGA Benjamin Terrence Kluga, born March 18, 1923 passed away on March 3, 2010 at home after a short but fierce battle with lung cancer. Ben was born in Buffalo, NY and moved to California when he enlisted in the Navy. He served in the submarine service dur- ing WWII. He was a great story teller, and the family never tired of hearing sto- ries about the war and of his childhood during the depression. A craftsman, inventor and artist, he was truly a remarkable and tal- ented man. An extraordinar- ily private man, nothing was more important than his family. Dad will hold a place in our hearts as a uniquely passionate man. Ben is sur- vived by his wife of 65 years, Eugenee and his 4 children, Richard (Alissar), Kathleen (Bill), Maureen (Marty) and Jennifer (Norm), grandchildren Alysia, Bryce and Erin, Angie, Leah and Nick. Ser- vices for Ben will be held on March 18th at 2:00 pm at the Igo Veterans Cemetery, 11800 Gas Point Road, Igo, CA 96047. Donations in Ben's memory may be made to Cuttlefish Base, P. O. Box 491661, Redding, CA 96049-1661 or to St. Elizabeth Hospice, 1425 Vista Way, Red Bluff, CA 96080 Police reports cent to 25 percent greater demand. Combined with reductions in federal fund- ing, the department must work to solve a $243,000 drop in its share of rev- enues, though it can save more than $515,000 by holding six positions vacant. Thanks to careful bud- geting, the Health Services Agency looks to remain unaffected up through the end of the fiscal year, though the governor's pro- posal to use mental health money to offset the state's deficit may further impact local mental health ser- vices, according to the report. The county may be fur- ther strained by a federal mandate requiring local governments to fund the latest extension of unem- ployment benefits. All of it means the coun- ty is likely to begin work on next year's budget as soon as the mid-year budget reallocations are approved, Peters said. The preliminary budget could be introduced before the end of the month, according to the report. Better business County documents indi- cate plans to allocate more than $170,000, most of it federal funding, to a Busi- ness Incubation Program. These funds could be used for grants or loans to business owners whose income is 20 percent or less of the county's median income. The county's median income was $38,160 as of 2008, according to census data. A public hearing on the subject will be held no sooner than 10:30 a.m., with a vote to move the funds or keep them held soon after. Pot plan A vote on the first read- ing of a medical marijuana ordinance linking growth to property size is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Drafted by supervisors Bob Williams and Gregg Avilla, the proposal is in some ways more lenient than the one Williams alone proposed in July. It carries over require- ments that gardens be kept 1,000 feet away from churches, schools and other places where children are likely to gather, and requires six-foot fences around outdoor growths. Unlike that first propos- al, growers would be allowed to have as many as 99 plans — if they have 160 acres to grow them on. Smaller parcels would come with tighter restric- tions, all the way down to 12 mature or 24 immature plants for anyone with 20 acres or fewer. Prominent medical mar- ijuana advocates have decried the measure, instead calling for limits tied to medical need. The board cannot hold a vote on whether to adopt the ordinance unless it is approved for a second read- ing. The soonest a second reading would be sched- uled would be if the board were to meet March 25. The Tehama County Board of Supervisors meets at 10 a.m. Tuesdays in its chambers at 727 Oak St. More information is avail- able by calling 527-4655 or visiting co.tehama.ca.us. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailyn ews.com. Continued from page 1A POT as far as 11 years, Dawley said. The after-effects of the state bond freeze in 2008 spread into 2009, but the district has since recovered and has enough funding to host free classes. Veteran gardeners John and Gail Harris, who live outside of Red Bluff and have been planting and harvesting for about 30 years, said the workshop offered tips that can prove useful to even the greenest thumbs. Even if you just garden as a hobby, the district's advice can be useful. Gardening is the most expensive hobby you can have, John Harris said. The group's next workshop is scheduled for 9 a.m. April 10 and will focus on creating defensible space to avoid fires. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailynews.com. Continued from page 1A GARDEN Woman with medical pot pleads guilty in Idaho REXBURG, Idaho (AP) — A Humboldt County woman with a rec- ommendation for medical marijuana will serve time after pleading guilty in Idaho to drug possession and posses- sion of paraphernalia. Thirty-five-year-old Aurora Hathor-Rainmenti of Garberville pleaded guilty last week in 7th District Court and was sentenced to five days in jail with 115 additional days at the discretion of the court, and fined $800. Idaho authorities say a civil forfei- ture is in progress on the vehicle Hathor-Rainmenti was driving and $514 in cash was confiscated. Idaho doesn't honor recommenda- tions for medical marijuana.