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2A – Daily News – Thursday, April 29, 2010 Community people&events Community Clips Playday Safe Haven Horse Rescue is holding its Spring Playday at Bobby Jones Arena in Cottonwood, at 9 a.m. Sunday, May 2. Come join the rescued horses at Safe Haven for a fun day of trotting, running, loping, raffles, prizes and food. Fun for riders of all levels or any horse lovers out there. Safe Haven is home to 60 rescued horses who are cared for by generous members of the community. One of Safe Haven’s residents is Excessorized or Sessie as she’s called. Sessie is a 4-year-old great-great grandaughter to the great Secretariat. She didn’t have such an illustrious racing career and was rescued by Safe Haven after being starved and is well on her way to being full weight and healthy. She’s a beautiful girl and due to an outpouring of support from the community Sessie is doing great. But there are 59 other horses, with no such famous great-grandparents that need your help. Safe Haven’s Playdays happen twice a year and are important to the rescue’s ability to care for the 60 horses and get as many adopted out to good homes as possible. This opens up more space to rescue more abused and neglected horses, some bound for slaughter, many rescued locally. This year Safe Haven is holding a raffle. Purchase a $10 raffle ticket for a chance to win either a Four Stall Gable Breezeway Barn valued at $14,750 or $5,000 in cash. Only 3,000 tickets will be sold. If you can’t come to the Playday, you can still support Safe Haven by going to www.safehavenhorseresue.org and purchasing raffle tickets. Meeting The Tehama County Peace Officers' Association will meet at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, at the Red Bluff Elks Lodge hosted by the California Highway Patrol with no- host open house. Dinner prepared by the Emblem Club starts at 6 p.m. and business meeting at 6:30 pm. Cost is $10 for dinner. Raffle prizes will be donated by California Highway Patrol. SECRET WITNESS 529-1268 A program of Tehama County Neighborhood Watch Program, Inc. Setting it straight The Tuesday story “County to mull pot festival, housing project” contained an error. Sun City Tehama is a 3,700-home development. The Daily News regrets the error. –––––––– 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. Visit, learn from a flower show By LORNA BONHAM Why would you want to go to a flower show? If you garden at all, even if it is just a flower pot by your front door, a flower show is a great place to get ideas and all three flower shows mentioned are free. Many also hold a plant sale and prices are usually very reasonable. Be sure to go early to get the best selection. If you are new to the area or are just getting into gardening and want to see what can be grown here, a flower show can be helpful since all horticulture in the show must be grown by the exhibitor for at least three months. Maybe you just want to know what might be blooming at this time of year. A flower show will also pro- vide many samples of what is blooming now. If you are having problems with a plant or are trying to figure out what to plant in a particular location, their will be people from the garden club in attendance with whom to discuss the problem. They might not know the answer, but can at least make suggestions as to where to search further. At a flower show you will find cut flowers in bloom, cut branches of shrubs and trees, and harvested winter and spring vegetables. Their will also be container grown plants and combination plantings to provide lots of ideas. Floral designs of different types and crafts incorporating plant mate- rial will also be shown, each with a particular title to interpret. Both adults and youth gardeners participate in each of these special exhibit areas. All the plants on display at a gar- den club flower show should be named by species and possibly by variety or cultivar adding to the information that can be garnered. There are several flower shows happening in the area this weekend. The Red Bluff Garden Club is providing their forty-ninth annual standard flower show on Saturday and Sunday, May 1 and 2, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Tehama District Fairgrounds along with the Home and Garden Show. Take note that the Red Bluff Garden Club’s plant sale sold out on Saturday at last years flower show, so try to be there Saturday morning. There are also lots of other activ- ities happening at the fair grounds this weekend: the Arabian Horse Show, the 4H Fur & Feather Show, Fiber on Foot Alpaca Show, and the Cinco De May Celebration. More flower shows to attend are the Anderson Valley and Cotton- wood Garden Clubs Show at The Cottonwood Community Center on Gas Point Road on Saturday, May 1, from 1 to 2:30 p.m. The Redding Wonderland Gar- den Club is having a flower show on May 3 at Neighborhood Church, 777 Loma Vista Dr. in Redding, from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Red Bluff Garden Club meetings are open to the public. The program at 12:45 p.m. on May 25, will be ‘Drought Proofing with Grey Water, by Cathe Fish, a Master Gardener and owner of Sunshine Works. For more information, visit the Web site at redbluffgardenclub.com or call 527-4578 or 384-1913. The Red Bluff Garden Club is affil- iated with National Garden Clubs Inc., California Garden Clubs Inc., Pacific Region and Cascade District. Friend’s self-centered behavior shocking Dear Annie: My wife’s 84-year-old mother lives with us. My wife’s cousin, ‘‘Erma,’’ lives two hours D NEWSAILY HOW TO REACH US RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY THE VOICE OF TEHAMA COUNTY SINCE 1885 VOLUME 125, NUMBER 136 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. 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Take Up New Work Middle Of Next Month George Wahl Will George Wahl who has been appoint- ed secretary of the chamber of com- merce will sever his connection with the Bradley Stationary Stores on May 15 to take up his new duties in the local boost body. – Daily News, April 29, 1920 away and occasionally sends letters and newspaper clippings to Mom to keep her updated on happenings in the old hometown. Erma is also very punctual with cards on special occasions. Mom reciprocates by call- ing her often and sending cards of her own. Recently, Mom lost her only sibling. Two weeks after the funeral, Erma celebrated her birth- day. Mom sent a birthday card, but it was a week late. My wife, admit- tedly not a card person, called Erma to wish her a happy birthday and left a message inviting her to our home for dinner with no response. A few days later, a letter arrived from Erma, saying she was very hurt not to receive a birthday card on time. My wife tried to explain that no one forgot her birthday, but circumstances were difficult and an effort was made to celebrate it later. Erma responded that she ‘‘doesn’t believe in late birthday cards,’’ and that even though she is busy, she always finds time to write to Mom. Isn’t this a petty and childish way to treat an 84-year-old who just lost a family member? — Shocked Hubby Dear Shocked: You bet. Erma sounds very self-centered and unable to put herself in someone else’s shoes. She thinks her prompt Annie’s Mailbox by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar birthday greetings make her special and, as a result, expects others to put her first, regardless of their cir- cumstances. She can’t help who she is, however, so please let your wife and mother-in-law handle her as they choose. You should stay out of it. Dear Annie: I’m a 14- year-old girl, and in my group of friends, there is one girl who never talks. ‘‘Nicole’’ sits at our lunch table because she has nowhere else to go. The problem is, when we don’t invite her to our outings, she starts to cry. We don’t like including her because she’s no fun. I don’t know what to do. We’ve confronted her many times and suggested solu- tions, but she always says she’s shy. — Out of Ideas Dear Out: Talk to your school counselor or a favorite teacher about ways to help Nicole. She obviously has some social issues and has no clue how to behave in a more acceptable manner. She may also have some problems of which you are unaware. Then encourage her to get involved in school activities in which she might have an interest or talent, including athletics, band, chess club or the school paper. You do not have to include Nicole in everything, but please try to teach her how to be the kind of friend you’d want to have around. It won’t hurt you to be kind, and it means you won’t be sorry later for the way you treated her. Dear Annie: I love reading your column in our local paper. But I wonder about your response to ‘‘Deborah in Los Angeles,’’ whose friend’s kindergartner uses a potty chair in front of company. You said the friend should train her daughter to use the bathroom, but admitted you had laughed. Why? A 5-year-old has no business using a potty chair at all, nor should she have been allowed to undress herself in front of guests. Why would any parent encourage this? And the idea that someone would laugh at such an occurrence is strange. I would never be amused by a child that age acting in such a manner. She is not a toddler. She is in kindergarten and obviously knows how to use the restroom. — Michelle in Baton Rouge, La. Dear Michelle: We are of the opinion that little kids, in general, are pretty funny, and when one is doing something totally outrageous, it is better to laugh than cry. Parents need to find the humor in raising kids. But we agree that it’s time this one used the bathroom. Annie’s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 5777 W. Century Blvd., Ste. 700, Los Angeles, CA 90045. Library amnesty COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR All makes and models. We perform dealer recommened 30K, 60K, 90K SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES Smog Check starting at $ (most cars and pick-ups) 2995 + cert. Pass or FREE retest 527-9841 • 195 S. Main St. The month of May has been declared Amnesty Month at your local library. What does this mean? It means that you can bring back your overdue books and we will forgive your fines, no matter how late they are. It also means that if you only owe fines, just ask us and we will forgive those too. The Amnesty is for fines only. If you have a dam- aged or missing book on your account, you will still need to pay the replacement cost but the fines will be waived. Help us help you. 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