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2A – Daily News – Saturday, March 20, 2010 Community people&events Senior Menu The Senior Nutrition Program serves meals Mon- day through Friday at the Red Bluff Community Cen- ter, the Corning Senior Center and Los Molinos. Meals are a $2.50 suggested donation and $6 for those younger than 60. Reservations for all locations are available one day in advance at 527-2414. Two percent milk is served with each meal. Menu is subject to change. Week of April 6 through April 10 Monday Vegetarian Menu Spinach cheese ravioli, capri vegetables, seasoned bread stick, green salad, mandarin oranges. Tuesday Polish sausage, kraut, German potato salad, pineapple orange juice, rye bread, apple crisp. Wednesday Beef stroganoff, noodles, broccoli, beet and mandarin salad, wheat roll, apricots. Thursday Healthy Heart Day Roasted chicken, augratin potatoes, mediterranean blend, wheat bread, applesauce. Friday Spaghetti and meatballs, mixed vegetables, romaine salad, garlic bread, luau fruit cup. In the military Army Pvt. Eric Garcia has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. During the nine weeks of training, the soldier studied the Army mission, history, tradition and core values, physical fitness, and received instruction and practice in basic combat skills, military weapons, chemical warfare and bayonet training, drill and ceremony, marching, rifle marksmanship, armed and unarmed combat, map reading, field tactics, military courtesy, military justice system, basic first aid, foot marches, and field training exercises. He is the son of Eric Garcia Sr. of Rocklin, and Kathy Townley of Gerber. Garcia is a 2008 grad- uate of Foothill High School, Palo Cedro. 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. Courtesy photos D NEWSAILY HOW TO REACH US RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 VOLUME 125, NUMBER 102 On the Web: www.redbluffdailynews.com MAIN OFFICE: Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Main Phone (530) 527-2151 Outside area 800-479-6397 545 Diamond Ave. Red Bluff, CA 96080 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. Box 220 Red Bluff, CA 96080 Fax: (530) 527-5774 ______________________ CUSTOMER SERVICE: Subscription & delivery Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. (530) 527-2151 Ext. 125 subscription rates (All prices include all applicable taxes) Monday through Saturday $9.59 four weeks Rural Rate $10.69 four weeks Business & professional rate $2.21 four weeks, Monday-Friday By mail: In Tehama County $12.29 four weeks All others $16.23 four weeks (USPS 458-200) Published Monday through Saturday except Sunday, by California Newspaper Partnership. 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Announcements The following people are running for Town Trustee in the upcoming election: W.A. Simmons, Henry Archambault, H.P. Stice, Frank Grimm, F.H. Albright, C.A. Lange, J.M. Howell, W.B. Cahoone. – Daily News, March 20, 1910 Caltrans: March 21-26 Caltrans will be doing the following March 22 through 26: • Utility work from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in both direc- tions on Highway 36W from 1.3 miles to 1.8 miles east of Dibble Creek. • Clearing vegetation from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in both directions on Highway 99E from 0.5 miles south of Vina Road to the junction with Highway 36E. No Job Too Small Alterations by Dolores Maxwell Specializing in Bridal Located in 815 Walnut St. Red Bluff 529-1474 Tue-Fri. 10am-4pm Jack the Ribber • Ribs •Tri-Tip • Pulled Pork • Specials Mon.-Fri. 11am-8pm Sat. 5-9pm 1150 Monroe St. 527-6108 The Red Bluff Elementary School District Board recognized eight students at its March 9 meeting. Top, from left: Outstanding students of the trimester Martha Cruz, fifth grade at Jackson Heights School; Emily Disney, fifth grade at Bidwell School; Kristina Horn, seventh grade at Vista Middle School; and Rosa Alfaro, fifth grade at Metteer School. Bottom, From left: Association of California School Administrators (ACSA) Student of the Year. Pictured from left: Dylan Weir, sixth grade at Bidwell School; Garrison Koeberer, sixth grade at Metteer School; Jane Kinner, eighth grade at Vista Middle School; and Nanci Cortez Gamez, sixth grade at Jackson Heights School. The Ides of March can bring pressure I must remedy the error of leav- ing off the amount of bread to be used in the Irish bread pudding recipe that I included in last week’s column. The recipe calls for 1 lb. of bread. To be honest I estimate the bread as a pound and it works well. Look on the bread wrapper for the weight, use scales if you want. Either way you will likely enjoy the pudding. It seems that we are to be aware of the Ides of March that is the 15th of March. It is said that Julius Cae- sar ignored this and consequently was killed in the middle of March. It seems that Caesar was plotted against during the "Ides." The cur- rent month of March seems to be bringing us some sunny days which are welcome. Just when I thought I had escaped the "Ides," I came upon a computer challenge. I never cease to be amazed at what one can learn if put under pressure. In my case it never seems to come easy, the remedy often comes by sheer frustration or acci- dent. I have always had this fasci- nation with technology unfortu- nately I seem to learn to use it only by the hands on trial and error method. I was the kind of child that was fascinated by the old record players that had a hefty needle arm that you lifted up and put down on a 78 record. Then there were radios, I really liked them and loved to hear the little people inside of them tell stories or sing songs. We used to have a radio that sat on the top of the refrigerator when I was a young child. It would get a few stations but if you wanted the one with a certain soap opera on it you had to climb up and hold the wire antenna to get it to transmit. Yes, believe it or not there was a soap opera called "The Barbers," that I liked to hear when I was only 4 years old. I would risk falling off the stool to hold the antenna while I listened. Could it have been an omen that I would later marry a man with the last name of Barber and start my own Barber Family? My inner clock would tell me when it came on and I would run in from outside to listen to it. Crazy but true. Carolyn Barber As I grew older the first transis- tor radios came into being and you guessed it I used my babysitting money to buy a couple of those. By high school age there were 45s and 33&1/2 records to play on machines that actually dropped a whole pile of records and automat- ically moved the arm onto each one in turn. Wow. What progress in the world of technology? In the high school typing class I learned to type on a manual Underwood. In the 1980s electric typewriters with came into their own and in the ‘90s came word processors and finally entered the home computers. My first home computer used only the hated "Dos" language. I was not good at "Dos" but attempt- ed some of my first columns on such a machine, frustration was at a high level especially when I had to print them on a reel type printer that rarely produced copy in the right place on the right page. After a time of prolonged frus- tration I obtained a program called "Secretary Bird," which operated something like today’s "Word" and freed me from the bondage of using "Dos." Next came the lap- tops, the cell phones, the palm pilots, i pods and on and on and on. One would think that technology has now worked out all the bugs in their systems. Not so. It still takes me approximately 40 minutes to get through a request for service call from the tele- phone company and when my modern scanner/printers fail to operate I spend many hours trying to coax them into operation. My relationship with technology has a dark side. I spent a good por- tion of two days coaching two printers into resuming their jobs. I finally accomplished the task but had to call each of them by alias names in order to get them to return to work at running off my copy. This has forced me to tape hand written notes to my computer reminding me that the hp 1209 is no longer using its given name, it now must be called Canon i70 and the Canon i70 will only operate when it is called i70 (2) on the pre- pare to print box. Hmm, since all that surrounds me is changing names, perhaps I will go to using "Caroline" instead of Carolyn. What have I learned from this recent techie trip? The "Ides of March" is not the best time to tack- le computer/printer problems. 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. Red Bluff Elementary District honors students