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2A – Daily News – Thursday, April 8, 2010 Community people&events Cone & Kimball Plaza Propagation techniques By DIANE CLELAND The easiest, most inex- pensive way to add houst plants to your collection is to propagate those you already have. Multiplying them yourself will give you the added pleasure of watching baby plants grow to maturity. Stem Cuttings – Select a mature, healthy stem; use a sharp knife or blade to cut just below a leaf node (the place where a leaf grows from the stem). The cutting should be sev- eral inches long and have four to six healthy leaves. Remove leaves from the bottom of the piece so they will not be buried in the rooting medium; dip the cutting in a rooting hormone. Courtesy photo The Red Bluff Garden Club put the finishing touches on the landscape, getting the Cone & Kimball Plaza ready for the 11 Days of Rodeo. Pictured back row, from left: Tina Wertzba, Shonna Hufnagel, Vickie Gray, Kathy Bramhall, Sharon Kessey. Front row, from left: Diane Cleland, Cathy Wilson, Pam Ness, Lorna Bonham Setting it straight • There was an error in Wednesday’s 2A birth announcement for Madison Jo Hurton. Madison’s great-parents include Clifford and Nancy Peterson of Red Bluff. • A story in Wednesday’s edition titled “Marijua- na regulations passed” contained an error. Under the ordinance, marijuana is required to be grown 100 feet from the edge of the property if the property is 20 acres or less. The distance requirement increases with the size of the property. The Daily News regrets the errors. –––––––– 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. Photo Courtesy of Mary Ellen Pike D NEWSAILY HOW TO REACH US RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 VOLUME 125, NUMBER 118 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 ______________________ Fax: (530) 527-5774 ______________________ Mail: Red Bluff Daily News P.O. Box 220 Red Bluff, CA 96080 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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Lanes Valley School April Report The report of the Lanes Valley School for the month ending April shows ... the percentage of attendance on average was a little over 97 percent. Of the seven girls and one boy belonging to this school those who secured a place on the Roll of Honor were Vina Woodward and Myrtle Childs. Our visitors this month were Mrs. Olive Childs, Mrs. Ida Woodward, Beulah Woodward, Eric Childs and Donald Turner. Miss L. Strawn is the teacher of this school. – Daily News, April 8, 1910 Deana Owens and Kelsey Maeder Now Offering Welcomes One hour Massage and One hour Facial Package Only $ 99 Open: Monday-Saturday Call 527-7762 810 Rio Street, Red Bluff Gift Certificates Available expires: 4/30/10 2 Mary Lee Grimes Members of the 72nd New York Volunteer Infantry form a battle line to help Paratransit Services and Home Depot employees announce a free parking and shuttle service from Home Depot to the 6th annual Civil War Days Red Bluff reenactment at Dog Island."Clash at Dog Island", runs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on April 24 and 9a.m. to 4 p.m. April 25. With a limited handicapped parking at Dog Island, Home Depot, 2650 N. Main, offers free parking in the Northwest corner of their lot. The shuttle runs every 15-20 minutes. Admission is $5, adults and $1 children under 10. From left: Rick Barram, Civil War Days event coordinator, Connor Pike, Pam Frost and Cindy Purcell of Paratransit Services, Allie McDonald, Home Depot, Steve Mentink, Operations Manager of Home Depot, Dan Jackson and Pat Parsons. Community Clips Tehama County Historian Mary Lee Grimes, pictured left, will present the program at the Ladies of Wilcox Oaks Golf Club monthly meeting on April 13. The meeting begins with a social time at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is at noon. Chairman for the luncheon is Rhonda Johnson. Reservations should be made by calling the club house at 527-6680 by April 9. The Sacramento River Preservation Trust (Trust) and Associated Students Adventure Outings (AO) are co-sponsoring a Sacramento River float on Saturday, April 17. The float will cover 12 miles of the Sacra- mento River from Mill Creek Park to Woodson Bridge River trip in Tehama County. A full day event starting at 8 a.m., ending about 4 p.m. A wide range of bird species may be spotted. Other wildlife, including bald eagle, salmon, river otter and bobcat, may make appear also. Binoculars and cameras are highly recommended. River guides and boating equipment including rafts and lifejackets will be provided. Participants will meet at the AO Equipment Warehouse in Chico. Transporta- tion is provided. Cost is $35 for Trust members and $45 for non-members Participants should bring a lunch and water. Due to insurance restrictions, only those 18 years of age or older may participate. Reserve your spot by calling 345-1865 or visit the Web site: www.sacrivertrust.org. Rio Skin & Body Works Spa 8th Annual FIBER ON THE FOOT May 1-2 • 9 to 5 Fiber Livestock Festival Family fun Handcrafter’s Paradise Plus 6 other events at the TDFG www.fiberonthefoot.com Best BBQ Around Cooked Fresh Daily B.B.Q. FAST FRIENDLY SERVICE Weekdays ‘till 6pm Saturday ‘till 3pm 22825 Antelope Blvd. 528-0799 Deep tissue massage therapy specializing in chronic pain & injury relief. your giddy-up? Been pushin cattle, Working horses? Got a hitch in A Better Path Located between Red Bluff & Corning Sally Eisinger, CMT 824-6860 The rooting medium must be sterile, free drain- ing, firm enough to hold the cuttings and not con- tain too much fertilizer. A specially formulated seed and cutting compost is ideal. Moisten the soil mix- ture and poke holes in it with a knife or pencil. Slip the cuttings in and gently firm soil around the stems. Mist lightly and cover with a lid or encase in a plastic bag and close tightly. This will help retain vital humidity and keep the leaves from wilting as the stems root. Place under fluorescent light or in indirect light. In several weeks, check to see whether the cuttings have rooted by giving each a gently tug; if the cutting resists, it should be sufficiently rooted to pot. There should be an inch or two of roots. Leaf Cuttings – Follow the same procedure for rooting leaf cuttings as stem cuttings. Simply cut off a mature, healthy leaf at the stem base with a sharp knife, and insert it in a moist rooting medi- um. The leaves of some succulents (such as sedum and Crassula argentea) will have to be partially buried in the medium. In several weeks, tiny leaves will push their way up through the soil. When leaves and stems are strong and healthy, sever plantlets from the parent leaf and pot up individual- ly If you are rooting only one leaf, especially the woody-stemmed ones, you can put it in a small plastic bag filled with rooting medium. When the leaf has developed strong roots, pot it and watch for baby leaves to emerge. When they do, remove and discard the old leaf. Root Division – Root division is actually the splitting or cutting up of one plant into two or Civil War Days shuttle more parts. To divide a plant, gen- tly knock it out of its con- tainer; you may have to run a sharp knife around the edge of the pot to loosen the soil. Remove the root-ball and shake off as much soil as you can. Then gently break the root-ball apart to see how the roots are growing and to determine the way to divide it. Some plants actually put out new stems and plants next to the original plant, similar to a sucker or offset. These plants can be separated and potted up individually. Others build on each other to make one large root-ball. In that case, you will have to cut the plant apart. Put the division into smaller pots, water thor- oughly, and set in indirect light for a week or two while the plant adjusts to life on its own. Early spring is the best time to divide plants. Red Bluff Garden Club is affiliated with California Garden Clubs, Inc., Pacific Region Garden Clubs, and National Garden Clubs, Inc. Bud’s