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Thursday, December 20, 2012 ��� Daily News 3B FEATURES Cozy cousins cause considerable concern thinks I���m crazy. What do Dear Annie: My 50you think? ��� RH something male cousin has Dear RH: We don���t think brought a 20-something you���re crazy, but you do female cousin to live with seem to be in denial. You him. He calls it ������mentorshould properly grieve for ing.������ The poor girl is learnBuster. Pretending another ing disabled. dog is still the same one They are the only two after a stroke doesn���t do juspeople living in the house, and the arrangement has Annie���s tice to your feelings. It also doesn���t allow you to love caused concern for his paryour new dog for his own ents and children. Is this normal? What���s your take by Kathy Mitchell sake. Even with ������retrainon the situation? ��� Just and Marcy Sugar ing,������ you will continue to expect him to respond to you Wondering Dear Just: We don���t know what and behave as Buster did. Please kind of learning disability would take a little time to mourn the origirequire that a 20-year-old live with nal Buster before you make any her older cousin ��� or anyone. If decisions about a new dog. Dear Annie: You printed a lot you mean that the girl is mentally disabled, then someone needs to of responses to ������Looking for a check on the situation and intervene Relationship, Too,������ who asked should the older cousin be taking where to meet men. What a waste advantage of her. Because the girl is of time to read all of those suggesover 18, it may require legal inter- tions. If you are serious about findvention. If, however, the 20-year- ing someone, the Internet is the old is perfectly capable of manag- best place to look. Just find a reliing her own life and chooses to live able dating service online. Be sure with this cousin, there���s not much to have a pleasant picture of youryou can do. We hope her family is self, and if you can���t figure out how to get online, ask any 6th keeping an eye on things. Dear Annie: We recently lost grader to do it for you. Don���t be too picky about your our dear pet dog, ������Buster,������ and are considering getting another dog. I preferences, and then go out and want to find one who is the same have fun meeting all sorts of people. breed and color, call him ������Buster������ Brief first-time meetings for coffee and go on as if his predecessor had in a public place are best, so neither not died, but rather had a stroke and has to stay long or incur expensive needed to be retrained. My wife meals. Quit wasting your valuable Mailbox time looking in all the wrong places. ��� Content in California on Match.com Dear Content: The Internet is one way to meet people, but it isn���t the only way (or necessarily the best way), and it is only a preliminary step. Here���s another take on the subject: Dear Annie: The various suggestions for where to go to meet someone all sound extremely dangerous to me. Whatever happened to single people letting their married friends know they would like to meet someone? I would never take seriously a potential date who didn���t come ������pre-screened������ for suitability and safety. As a single woman, I cannot imagine getting into the car of a man I had met on a hike, in a class or even at church. I���ve been at the same church for more than 30 years, and I know plenty of single men and women there. Believe me, I wouldn���t introduce any one of them to a friend as a potential mate. ��� Cautious in Los Angeles Annie���s Mailbox is written by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, longtime editors of the Ann Landers column. Please email your questions to anniesmailboxcomcast.net, or write to: Annie���s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254. Shasta College waives fees for high school students On Dec. 12, the Shasta College Board of Trustees adopted a resolution which allows the college to waive the $46 a unit enrollment fee for "special admit" students. "Special admit" students are those K-12 students, generally at the high school level, who enroll in fewer than 12 units at the college, either on campus or at other locations like their high schools. In some cases, other fees, such as health and the student center fee, also could be waived depending on the location of the class. Waiving fees for this group of students is permitted under the Califor- nia Education Code and many community colleges across the state have had this waiver in place for years. Since special admit students are not eligible for other types of financial aid, such as Pell grants, the waiver offers low income students some assistance in paying for college costs. In addition, it creates an incentive for motivated students to begin college coursework while still in high school. Shasta College has developed a new Educational Master Plan and Strategic Plan that will guide the direction of the district for the foresee- able future. In support of these planning agendas, the college had partnered with other educational institutions across its three-county service area to support providing college access to youth in the North State. Examples of these initiatives are Reach Higher Shasta and Expect More Tehama. The fee waiver will further these efforts by stimulating the enrollment of high school students in college classes. "High school seniors in the College Connection program will benefit greatly because of the waiver. Since College Connection students can take up to 11 college units per semester, this means that they could complete almost an entire year of college tuition free," Jody Solinski, Principal, College Connection. College Connection is a one year alternative program that allows selected high school seniors to spend their senior year on the Shasta College campus and concurrently earn both high school and college credit. For more information contact Eva Jimenez, Dean of Business, Agriculture, Industry and Technology at 242-7565 or e-mail: ejimenez@shastacollege.e du. Altacal Audobon events scheduled this month Altacal Audobon events for December are as follows: ��� Saturday, Dec. 22, Red Bluff Christmas Bird Count - Compiler: Karen Scheuermann, 3471687 or karens2020@gmail.com Please let Karen know if you plan to join the count or go owling. Let her know your preferred location in advance so she can send worksheets. Meet at 7:30 a.m. Holiday Parking Lot, 460 Antelope Blvd., Red Bluff. Compilation dinner at 5 p.m. at M&M, 645 Antelope Blvd, Red Bluff ��� Sunday, Dec. 30, Oroville Christmas Bird Count - Compiler: Gaylord Grams 5331624 or gg2canoe@yahoo.com. All levels of birders are welcome. Beginners will be paired up with experienced birders. You will be assigned an area and spend the day counting birds in this area. Bring warm clothes, hiking shoes, lunch, bird books and binoculars. To do a half-day, contact Gaylord Grams ahead of time. Meet at 7:30 am Agricultural Commissioner���s Of���ce on Nelson Ave, Oroville, east of Highway 70 and across from Home Depot. Juvenile arthritis treatment can be risky inhibitors may be DEAR DOCsafer for the stomTOR K: My ach. young grandIn more severe daughter has juvecases, doctors may nile rheumatoid use corticosarthritis. I worry teroids, which are about the effects fast-acting, antiof the powerful inflammatory medications she has to take. Dr. K agents. But they can cause weakDEAR READby Anthony L. bones, ER: Modern med- Komaroff, M.D. ened increased suscepicine has created real miracles. We have tibility to infections and been smart enough to cre- stunted growth. They usuate treatments that relieve ally are prescribed for suffering and prevent pre- only a short time. Drugs known as mature death beyond what was previously possible. DMARDs often provide But we are not yet smart relief if other medications enough to create tests and have failed. The most treatments that are free of widely used is methotrexate. These drugs can cause side effects. The treatment of arthri- liver damage or other tis, in adults and in chil- complications. Doctors dren like your grand- carefully monitor children daughter, is an example. taking DMARDs. Over the past 30 years, Powerfully effective treatments are available today medical scientists have that were not available in made major advances in the past. Your grand- understanding the chemidaughter���s suffering has a cal signals that cause called better chance of being inflammation, cytokines. In the past 15 to relieved than ever before. But you���re also right to 20 years, scientists have worry: Medications used developed drugs that to treat juvenile rheuma- block these signals and inflammation. toid arthritis can cause reduce serious problems. That���s These powerful newer including why treating children with treatments, this condition is a delicate adalimumab (Humira), (Enbrel), balance. It���s true the treat- etanercept ment can cause immediate infliximab (Remicade) side effects and there can and others, can be highly be long-term risks. How- effective. But they also ever, doctors want to do have the potential for serieverything they can to ous side effects, particupromptly relieve their larly the reactivation of young patients��� suffering bacterial and fungal infecand to protect them tions that lie dormant against long-term bone inside some people. Encourage your granddamage. With juvenile rheuma- daughter to maintain as toid arthritis, the lining of normal a life as possible the joint becomes ��� for example, to engage inflamed and enlarged, in usual play and sports limiting movement and activities. Tutoring may causing pain and tender- help if she misses school ness. Enzymes released due to illness, and counby the inflamed mem- seling might help her deal branes erode the bone and with the emotional aspects cartilage. This joint and of having a long-lasting bone damage can cause illness. Finally, take heart. For problems in a growing child; bones may develop many children, symptoms abnormally in shape or of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis gradually lessen size. Medications help to or disappear as they enter control inflammation to adulthood. stop further joint damage. Dr. Komaroff is a They also control pain and physician and professor inflammation. Harvard Medical Nonsteroidal anti- at School. To send inflammatory drugs go to (NSAIDs) are usually the questions, or first medications used to AskDoctorK.com, relieve joint inflamma- write: Ask Doctor K, 10 tion. But NSAIDs can Shattuck St., Second cause ulcers. COX-2 Floor, Boston, MA 02115. Boarding float at Canyon Dam to be pulled today Due to the deteriorated condition of the boarding float at Canyon Dam boat launch, officials at both the Lassen National Forest and California Department of Boating and Waterways (DBW) say the dock is unsafe and must be removed. The Forest Service has plans to remove it Thursday. "Although traditionally we have plowed the Canyon Dam boat launch for winter fishing, this season we will be plowing at the Almanor boat launch as an alternative while we await a replacement boarding float for Canyon Dam," said Michelle Ahearn, recreation officer at the Almanor Ranger District. A replacement of the deteriorating boarding float was planned earlier, along with a number of other improvements to the site, through the use of a DBW grant. However, due to continued unanticipated high lake levels, ramp modifications could not be completed, which were necessary for the float replacement. Much work has been completed, including installment of a double vault toilet, construction of an information kiosk, and pavement repairs. Grant funds for the remaining items will be returned to DBW. The Forest Service sees replace- ment of the float as a priority and will continue to work with DBW, which has indicated it is willing to look into emergency funding for a new float. DBW officials visited Canyon Dam to inspect the facility and found the condition of the boarding float unacceptable. The department recommended that it be removed from use for the safety of both users and forest personnel. The assistant forest engineer, who also inspected the float, agrees with the assessment and recommendation of DBW. She cited safety issues such as wood decay, broken metal brackets, and missing connector pieces as Workshops at CSU herbarium Mushroom Foraging and Identification Workshop. Jan. 19, 2013. This workshop will be useful for beginners as well as for people with some knowledge of mushrooms. This workshop starts with an introduction to mushrooms, then collecting in the field and finally identifying the mushrooms that are found. The instructor, Philip Carpenter, has extensive knowledge of mushrooms and has been a member of the Fungus Federation of Santa Cruz since it was organized in 1984. This workshop will meet at the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The registration is $100. Please register in advance. The Wild Dessert: Preparing Food From Native Plants. Feb. 9, 2013. Learn how to prepare unforgettable desserts made from backyard edibles such as Manzanita berries, acorns, and California bay. Taste California bay ice cream and oak nut bliss bars and discover how to turn acorns into a nutritious, gluten-free flour. The instructor, Alicia Goldberg Funk, recently co-authored, ���Living Wild: Gardening, Cooking and Healing with Native Plants of the Sierra Nevada.��� This workshop will meet from 9 a.m. to noon at 129 Holt Hall, CSU, Chico. The registration is $45. Please register in advance. For more information about registration please contact the CSU, Chico Biology office at (530) 898-5356 or jbraden@csuchico.edu Details available at csuchico.edu/biol/Herb/Events.html. contributing to the float���s unsafe condition. General questions regarding this action may be directed to either Ahearn or Almanor Ranger District Resource Officer Jane Goodwin, at 530-258-2141. For technical questions, you may contact Heather Blevins, Assistant Forest Engineer, at 530-257-2151. WHY I ��� CORNING! An Olive City essay contest! A fun opportunity for residents and visitors alike to share why they love living, working or visiting California���s Olive City in 300 (three hundred) words or less. First, second and third place winners will be published in ���Corning 2013,��� the annual community resource guide and information directory, published January 31, 2013. Digital version will be published online for a full year, with links to the interactive edition posted on the Corning Chamber, City of Corning and Tehama County websites. Deadline for receipt of entries: Friday, January 11, 2013 1ST Prize: 2ND Prize: 3RD Prize: $200 $100 $50 DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY and T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 HOW TO ENTER: Via Email: Send c/o tehama.up@gmail.com Via Mail: I love Corning c/o The Daily News, PO Box 220, Red Bluff CA 96080 Entries must be accompanied by name of author, address, telephone number and email address if any. Original work only. All entries become the property of The Daily News and cannot be returned. Entries may be republished by The Daily News in whole or part, and may be afforded to the Corning Chamber of Commerce for community promotional purposes. Selection of winners will be made by a committee composed of representatives of The Daily News and Corning Chamber of Commerce.