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Red Bluff High School invites parents of eighth- graders to attend a dinner and informational meeting Wednesday, March 8 in the high school's cafeteria. Dinner will be served 5:30-6 p.m. and an informa- tion presentation will follow. Spanish translation and childcare for children 9 and younger will be provided. Any questions can be di- rected to the Red Bluff High School's main office at 529- 8710. REDBLUFFHIGH CO NTR IBU TE D Re d B lu ff H ig h S ch oo l s t uden ts p os e w it h a b ann er p romo ti ng a n u pc om in g i nf or ma ti on m ee ti ng . Meeting, dinner for parents of eighth-graders Gleaners will distribute food as follows in March: Corning, 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, March 15, Corning Senior Center, 1015 Fourth Ave. Red Bluff, 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday,March15,Food Bank, 20699 Walnut St. RanchoTehama,noonto 2 p.m., Monday, March 13, Recreation Center. Los Molinos, 9 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, March 14, Masonic Hall, 25020 Te- hama Vina Road. Paynes Creek, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, March 10, at 30100 State Route 36E. Ponderosa Sky Ranch, 2-6 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at 18889 Juniper Ave. Manton, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, March 10, at 31555 Forward Road. Paskenta Community Center, Sunday, March 9. Applications for food bank cards may be on the dayofgiveaway.Bringlarge paper or plastic bags if pos- sible.Newapplicantsplease bring Rent Receipt, PG&E bill or something with a physical address. All income must be re- ported. Income is gross monthly per household not net. Only one card will be issued per household. Bringlargepaperofplas- tic bags for your food. GLEANERS Food distributions set for March The following informa- tion is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Red Bluff Fire, Tehama County Sheriff's Depart- ment, Corning Police De- partment, Corning Fire, Cal Fire and California Highway Patrol logs. Arrests ReneeLynnJackson: 39, of Red Bluff was arrested and booked into Tehama County Jail Thursday on the felony charge of caus- ing willful injury to a child and a misdemeanor charge of drunk driving. No bail was set. Philip Andrew Torres: 29, of Corning was arrested and booked Thursday on the charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, vandal- ism and participating in a criminal street gang. No bail was set. Fire South Main Street at Interstate 5: A 1971Gen- eral Motors personal bus caught fire at 8:30p.m. Thursday a er a 12-volt battery switch shorted. The fire did not extend to any other part of the bus and there were no injuries. Suspicious Redtail Drive: Three subjects in a black BMW were reported to be acting suspicious Thursday. Gyle Road, Gerber: It was reported Thursday that a man was sitting in a silver Honda Civic at a woman's driveway gate. When she went outside she noticed the vehicle and another man in the bushes, who came out of the bushes, got into the car and they pulled down the driveway. James Avenue: A man was reported driving around in a black truck with a white camper shell Thursday, stopping and looking into garages. Leisure Lake Estates on South Main Street: Two young men were seen with a tool box and bolt cutters behind homes. Humboldt Drive and Tulare Bend, Corning: It was reported at 5:42 a.m. Friday a woman saw a man, whom she knows as Jeremy Lawrence, in a blue older pickup truck with items in the back. She said Lawrence was with an- other subject, both dressed in camouflage with black ski masks on. The Circle K on South Jack- son Street: A man wearing a red and black flannel jacket and blue jeans was reported to have stolen items from the store just a er midnight Friday and was acting strange outside the business. Vandalism Jerry Lane, Los Molinos: It was reported Thursday juveniles outside a person's residence threw rocks at the windows. Santa Rosa Avenue, Gerber: A man reported his neighbors and someone else either shot his house or threw something at his house. POLICE LOGS I enjoy listening to vary- ing personal opinions re- garding almost everything. I find healthy d i s c o u r s e s t i m u l a t - ing, in that it prompts me to think about things in ways I may nothavedone so previously. However, lately across more venuesthanIcaretocount,I seeagreatdeallessofunder- standing and empathy and far more self-righteous and dogmatic opinion. Just recently, to illus- trate my point, I happened upon an article written by Sarah Delgado. She is an author for Little Things, a digital publishing firm which, through social me- dia, publishes content tar- geted at a female audience. As a proclaimed "hunter- gatherer Mama Lion" and animal lover, she wrote an "Open Letter To Dog Own- ers Who Call Themselves 'Parents.'" I have to admit that it got my blood boiling with its sanctimonious clap- trap. The crux of the article was Sarah wanted to "ham- merthepointhome"thatbe- ing a parent is different than being a pet owner, and that "pet owners who call them- selves parents trivialize the very real, ever-changing life- time commitment that par- enting is." I find it interesting that, with all the monumental problems occurring in the world, people with pets call- ing themselves parents is what is causing her angst. Correct me if I am wrong, but I do not personally see how someone defines him- selfashavinganybearingon anyoneelse'sexistence.How- ever, in fairness, I did some research to determine if this was just one person's opin- ion, or if society as a whole took umbrage at the term. I must say, it was rather en- lightening. Among others who are equally offended are Susan Maushart, PhD, a revered journalist and author who wrote "Pet Parents are NOT Moms" and Torie Bosch, edi- torofFutureTense,aproject of Slate, New America, and Arizona State that looks at theimplicationsofnewtech- nologies, who blogged "I Am NotaPetParent."Thenthere is New York magazine's au- thor M.A. Wallace who, in his article "Pets Are Not Children, So Stop Calling Them That," wrote "mil- lions of people are happily, willfully confused about the difference between having a pet and raising a child." Per- sonally, I never thought something as innocuous as the term "pet parent" could cause such righteous indig- nation. According to Meriam Webster, one of the defini- tions of parent is "a person who brings up and cares for another". When describing our relationship with our pets in succinct terms, ac- cording to the above defi- nition, why can't we use the word parent? For those that oppose the verbiage, the de- mand is that we say "owner," a term I find personally ob- jectionable when discuss- ing living creatures. I can own a car, a pair of shoes, and any other easily dispos- ableinanimateobject.When communicating about sen- tient beings, describing my- self as an owner and view- ing them as property, to me, paves a way for us to become less humane in our dealings with non-human entities. Our court system appears to agree in that many have established that all animals are legally distinct enough from insentient goods in a variety of ways that allow theirrightstotranscendthat of mere property. According to the 2015- 2016 National Pet Owners Survey, conducted by the American Pet Products As- sociation, 65 percent of U.S. households, or about 79.7 million families, have a pet. Of that figure, 54.4 million families include a dog and, according to a survey done by Rover.com, 76 percent of those families preferred to be called "dog parents" or "pet parents". I will go out on a limb here and state that I am quite positive that amongthesemillionsoffam- ilies very few are "willfully confused about the differ- ence between having a pet and raising a child." In fact, Nicole L. Owens, Postdoc- toral Associate of the Uni- versity of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences,dida2015Doctoral Dissertation titled "The In- terspecies Family: Attitudes and Narratives" to examine the impact of family form on the construction of pet par- enting narratives. For those interested, it provides a fas- cinating overview of the so- cio-demographicsassociated withcountingpetsasfamily. I consider my pets to be an integral part of my fam- ily and, like many other fam- ilies, there are an infinite number of terms used to de- scribe our members and the ongoing (or lack of) relation- ships between them. How I describemyfamilyinnoway demeans others, nor does it denigrateortrivializeanyre- lationship within their own families. In addition, if an- imals can "parent" another species, why is it so problem- atic for some to accept other humans doing the same? I really do not understand the criticism of a few words, especially when there are "bigger fish to fry." Seriously folks, can you explain what the fuss is all about? RonnieCaseyisvice president of PETS — Providing Essentials for Tehama Shelter. She can be reached at rmcredbluff@ gmail.com. For more information about PETS, visit petstehama.org. ANIMALS Pet care: Why all of the fuss over being a pet parent? Ronnie Casey Rolf Robinson, of Sacra- mento, who recently pur- chased a large tract of land near Tehama, was seriously injured in an automobile accident at Loma, in Sutter county, last night. Robinson was accompanied by Harry Thompson of Sacramento, and when the big machine turned turtle they were caught beneath it. Their position was made peril- ous by the machine tak- ing fire. When removed from the wrecked car both men were badly burned and had suffered many cuts and bruises. Robinson is the most seriously injured. — March 4, 1917 100 YEARS AGO... 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