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FASHION TR ENDS

13 Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park

69 Four Decades of Exhibits at Sisson Museum

29 Strawhouse Resort and Cafe in Big Flat

65 Redding Fashion Alliance Brings Design To Life

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33 Shasta Builders Exchange Trade School in Redding 41 Chuck Hawes, Bow Maker 47 It’s All in the Wool at Shepherd’s Dream 57 StoneWay CrossFit in Mount Shasta

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SHOW TI M E

GOOD TI M ES 37 Here’s to Fun Times on the Water This Summer

17 NorCal Nitro Coffee— Cold Brewed in Paradise

61 Enterprise High School’s Drafting Students

51 Paul Thorn to Perform in Chico

IN EV ERY ISSU E 72 Enjoy the View—Matt Lim

21 John Mancasola Takes Over as President and CEO of The McConnell Foundation 25 Connecting with the Camera of Barbara Luzzadder 54 Fifteen Minutes with Ted Dawson, Owner of Mountain Wintu Herbs, Est. 2009

74 What’s Cookin’—Tangy Shrimp Salad With Cucumber, Dill and Fennel 78 Billy and Patrick Snapshot—Let’s Raise the Red, White and Blue 80 Calendar of Events 85 Giving Back—Hope is Alive! Increases Awareness and Inspires Others

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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA LIVING

JULY 2017

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It’s America the beautiful’s birthday, and we’re counting our blessings to live in such a picturesque place under her cloak of freedom. If you’re bound for the North Coast to escape the heat, make a pit stop at Strawhouse Resorts and Café in Big Flat, along the Trinity River. It’s an unexpected treasure, with carefully tended gardens, spectacular organic coffee and views that will have you pulling out your camera in nothing flat. Once you hit the coast, check out the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, where elk roam free, ancient trees build a magnificent canopy and the morning fog will have you pulling on a hoodie even in the middle of July. Dreamers? We know them, we love them and we are them. We’re inspired by the work of the dreamers behind the Redding Fashion Alliance, who are working to grow a “creative economy” and strengthen the local fashion community through education, economic development, opportunity and collaboration. We’ll also tell you more about John Mancasola, who’s the new president and CEO of the McConnell Foundation, but is certainly no stranger to the organization. He’s helping to bolster a culture of philanthropy – and if you enjoy Redding’s fireworks this year, you’ll be one of the many beneficiaries of the foundation’s generosity. Don’t forget to join us at Enjoy Movies in the Park every Friday in July at Anderson River Park, and July 8 on the Tehama County Department of Education Lawn. Movies start at dusk – bring your blankets, lawn chairs and picnic baskets – or visit our on-site food vendors during this free community activity. Happy Independence Day, and enjoy!

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P R A I R I E C R E E K R E D W O O D S S TAT E PA R K SOME WOODS SEEM more magical than others, though always in different ways. It’s a matter of each particular grove, how its branches lace and interlock, and its particular scents carried by a breeze, or by none. The Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park is one such place, where elk roam free in open plains and ancient trees grow taller than most buildings. “It’s the Grand Canyon of the redwoods,” agrees Emily Christian, a California State Park Ranger with Prairie Creek since 2010.

But adding even more to this park’s allure is its coastal location, where the atmosphere is both quiet and close with the hush of morning fog. And along the many trails at Prairie Creek is one of the park’s hallmarks, other than the trees themselves – the lush greenery of the forest floor, covered with ferns, whose fronds spread out like a firework’s burst. When thinking of prehistoric things, it’s easy to believe the oldest, biggest and most solid things dominated the4 continued on page 14

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world, which is why the redwoods still fascinate us. But in Prairie Creek, the ferns that grow at their roots convey the same feeling of timelessness, of having been preserved from some other era, because although these exotic plants are fragile, they have been found in fossil records some 350 million years old. Between the redwoods and ferns complementing each other, Prairie Creeks feels like a place frozen in time. If these ferns augment Prairie Creek’s magical atmosphere, then within the park is a place where the enchantment is strongest. Fern Canyon is only a four-mile hike from the visitor center, and it’s a backdrop that has been used for the Jurassic Park movies. Christian describes Fern Canyon as a slot canyon where “the walls on either side go up 80 feet high, draped in seven or eight different species of fern. Water seeps through the ground and comes off the edge of the canyon in waterfalls,” she adds, which creates a mist on the canyon’s floor. Of the seven or eight species, Christian says, “The prettiest is the fivefinger fern, which looks like a hand with black stems, which is rare.” Alongside the common Lady Fern and triangular, colony-forming Bracken Fern are the slender Deer Fern, Leather Fern, Licorice Fern, Sword Fern and Wood Fern. Then the morning coastal fog rolls over and into the canyon, and though the canyon is without redwoods, “there are giant spruces, and the fog and sun filter through the beams down into the canyon. It is very surreal,” says Christian. “It’s something so beautiful that it’s difficult to capture in words, or with a camera.” Even getting to the canyon can be an adventure. “There’s an eightmile-long road that’s minimally maintained,” explains Christian, where “bluffs go up about as tall as redwoods, 300 feet. But it’s constantly eroding, and the road is below the bluff,” so she cautions there are sometimes landslides, and no trailers or RVs are allowed on the road.

“If you’re in a car, I think it’s more than most people expect,” Christian says. Driving into the park requires an $8 entry fee, though national passes are accepted at all the entrance stations and campgrounds. Visitors also can opt to hike into the canyon via the James Irvine Trail, a four-and-a-half mile trail that begins near the visitor’s center. “Some folks make a loop of it by leaving the visitor center, then hiking from Fern Canyon two miles south to Miners Ridge Trail, and looping back, which can turn into a 15-mile loop,” says Christian. If you visit the canyon, she also recommends you travel just north of the canyon to visit nearby waterfalls. “If you go up the coastal trail from the canyon, there are three waterfalls, one of which is called Gold Dust Falls and which is kind of a secret,” says Christian. “It’s a 300-foot-high waterfall, just right around the corner from the canyon.” Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park also has two campgrounds – Elk Prairie and the popular Gold Bluff Beach campground, whose 26 spots are secured by reservation only from May 15 through Labor Day. Whether you hike, bike, drive or decide to stay, Christian encourages visitors to “be prepared for wet conditions.” Also, keep a respectful distance from any elk encountered, both for visitors’ and the elks’ safety. “In Fern Canyon, there’s really a sense of peace, and pristine nature. It’s a beautiful place to quiet the mind,” says Christian, which is why visitors should always pack out whatever they’ve packed in. That way, the park will be preserved for years to come, and remain for others a portrait frozen in time. • Fern Canyon • Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park • (707) 488-2039

Jordan Venema is a freelance writer and California native. He’s a fan of wild stories, impetuous traveling, live music, and all the food. But mostly, he’s a fan of his seven-year-old son, Cassian. He can be contacted by email at jordan.venema@gmail.com.

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N N O R C A L N I T R O C O F F E E - C O L D B R E W E D I N PA R A D I S E TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO, well before the big fresh juice craze took hold, Geoffrey Greitzer opened Java and Juice in Paradise using only fresh fruits and veggies for his juices and smoothies, no sugarfueled base from a plastic jar. While he was arriving at 3 am to roast coffee beans daily, he held the notion that eventually, “People could switch over from coffee to smoothies.” “We were the first place to have a real juice bar in Paradise and Chico,” he says. The 3,000-square-foot building was also the first in Paradise to have a drive through. Today, people still fill Yelp reviews with the virtues of the Swinging Monkey and Ninja Turtle smoothies, but Greitzer and his wife Nicole are feeding the coffee addiction with the introduction of nitro coffee, a process they helped revolutionize just a few years ago. “It’s been such a whirlwind, I don't know how to describe what it means,” says Greitzer of what he refers to as “the nitro thing,” a process of adding nitrogen to slow, cold-brewed organic coffee through a pressurized valve, creating a smooth, creamy finish with a foamy head reminiscent of a Guinness draught. “It doesn’t taste anything like a normal coffee,” he adds, noting that it is typically taken with no to very little sweetener and that “people who have stomach problems can drink this.” The natural creaminess of the pour eliminates the need for dairy.

Ironically, it was as the nation's obsession with fresh juices was finally taking hold that Greitzer turned his attention to the nitro thing. Nicole found an article about it and shared with him. His curiosity soon turned in to a full-on obsession. “When I get hot on something in my head...,” he says, going on to describe the countless hours reading and experimenting with the process and flavor profiles involved in making a quality product. “At the time, a couple of years ago, there were fewer than 10 people in the country who were doing it,” he adds. The concept was so intriguing though that he knew immediately he wanted to pursue it. The result of his early4 continued on page 18

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experimentation was so popular that Juice and Java would routinely empty five-gallon kegs on a daily basis. Coffee houses Cal Java and Beatniks, as well as Upper Crust Bakery, also began serving his product. It didn't take long before he was approached to wholesale the coffee. His attention turned to figuring out how to bottle the product in glass so a hard pour would still bring the effect of a keg tap. “It took six months every single day to figure out how to do this,” he says. “I'm sure my staff got sick of tasting it.” They also had to label each bottle by hand. “It took almost a minute per bottle. My wife, Nicole, almost got carpal tunnel,” he adds. Still, he says, “I believe we were the first people to figure out how to bottle nitro in glass bottles.” Greitzer admits that at first, he thought glass was the only legitimate way to contain the nitro coffee with integrity. Others started using aluminum cans and he silently disparaged the practice. Then Sierra Nevada Brewery made the case for aluminum and he began with his own experiments. Turns out, cans were the way to go. “You give a couple of good shakes and a hard pour,” he says, “and you get a creamy, cascading Guinness-like thing.” It's superior to the glass bottling technique he spent so much time perfecting. “With cans, it will hold more pressure because it's all under nitrogen.” With the ability to can comes the ability to grow, something Greitzer is simultaneously excited and wary about. “We want to do

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everything correctly, to not expand too quickly,” he says. Still, the selfprofessed shorts and t-shirts guy bought himself a suit and drove to Safeway headquarters in Pleasanton to discuss expanding distribution of NorCal Nitro beyond the few stores in Chico and Paradise. “We're outperforming any cold brew coffee that they have on their shelves,” he says with pride. “Ours just tastes different.” He can't move much beyond the North State, as he and his crew are still roasting and brewing in small batches, but he's excited that more people will be able to readily access his product. While he makes each move toward expansion with measured steps, he's fully cognizant of the importance of this phase of his business. “You don't have too many opportunities in life that present themselves like this,” he says. • NorCal Nitro Coffee • norcalnitro.com Juice and Java • 7067 Skyway • Paradise (530) 872-9633

Melissa Mendonca is a graduate of San Francisco State and Tulane universities. She’s a lover of airports and road trips and believes in mentoring and service to create communities everyone can enjoy. Her favorite words are rebar, wanderlust and change.

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JOHN MANCASOLA FREELY ADMITS he knew next to nothing about private foundations when he graduated from law school and embarked on what he figured would be a cut-and-dried career as an attorney. He knows plenty now, after 26 years with the McConnell Foundation, the Redding-based philanthropic organization that has improved lives in the North State and around the world. “I have Mrs. McConnell to thank for that,” Mancasola says of his insight into the world of charitable giving, referring to the late Leah McConnell who, with her late husband, Carl, launched their eponymous foundation some 53 years ago. “I thank my lucky stars she came into my life.” Earlier this year, Mancasola, 60, was named president and CEO of the McConnell Foundation. He replaced Lee Salter, the longtime president, who will oversee special projects on a part-time basis. Mancasola had been serving as executive vice president and in-house counsel. Mancasola met Leah McConnell in the early 1990s, shortly before she became one of his clients while he was practicing law at Carr, Kennedy, Peterson and Frost. Mancasola joined the foundation board in 1991 and two years later he went to work for McConnell, splitting his time evenly between working for Leah and the foundation. He became a full-time employee of the foundation in 1995, when Leah passed away. During those years he spent with Leah, Mancasola grew to respect and admire her business acumen. He attributed that keen mind and shrewd sense of value to her humble roots: Leah was born in Humbug, a mining camp in Siskiyou County, where her father was a4 continued on page 22

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hardrock miner. She grew up in Yreka and was working at a title company in Yreka when she met Carl, an Illinois native who moved to the area in the mid-1920s. Leah wasn’t the only one in the family with a knack for business. Carl’s parents, both doctors in the Chicago area, had the foresight to help launch the Farmers Insurance Group back in 1928 with a $10,000 stock purchase. The strength of that investment was realized in 1988 (three years after Carl’s death) when the Farmers stock holding was sold and Leah earned approximately $160 million. The following year, to reduce tax liabilities, Mancasola says Leah “collapsed” a trust and funneled the $42 million into the McConnell Foundation. At that point, the charitable giving (which started on a small scale in 1964 with the Carl R. and Leah F. McConnell Foundation) began in earnest. When Leah McConnell died in 1995, the remainder of her estate was transferred to the foundation, increasing its asset base to about $250 million. Since then, despite the challenges posed by the recession, the foundation’s asset base has grown to $420 million. In addition to her business sense, Leah had a strong urge to help others and she made the conscious decision to not set any parameters on the foundation’s giving. “There was nothing mandated in the five counties we give in,” Mancasola says. “Her personal giving was not focused, either. She supported a broad spectrum of causes.” As a result of that philanthropic approach, the foundation branched into giving in Nepal and Laos. Mancasola says that shift occurred 20 years ago when foundation directors attended a Council on Foundations convention and were moved by the keynote speaker’s thoughts on giving in the international arena “and we took it to heart.” On the home front, Mancasola says the foundation moved from “giving away things like fire trucks” through its own grant application process and instead shifted that responsibility to the Shasta Regional Community Foundation, which it funds to the tune of about $750,000 a year. In May, the Shasta Regional Community Foundation awarded $704,714 in grants to 39 organizations in Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity counties. Those grants brought the total awarded through its McConnell Fund to $8.7 million since the fund was established in 2001.

By allowing others to experience the grant-making experience and be involved in the decision making, Mancasola says the McConnell Foundation hopes to leverage its own giving to create a culture of philanthropy throughout the North State. The foundation’s own general grant programs have resulted in smaller, yet meaningful, projects throughout the region – expanding Golden Umbrella, building the Wagon Creek Bridge on Lake Siskiyou and supporting 4-H and FFA students are just three examples – as well as more significant landmarks like helping with restoration of the Cascade Theatre and, most notably, Turtle Bay Exploration Park and the Sundial Bridge. Ongoing programs the foundation operates include a robust scholarship program that focuses on students who are the first in their family to attend college; College Options to help with the bewildering college application process; and major community projects like the Redding School of the Arts campus, the Weed Community Center, and support of the Shasta Community Health Center and One SAFE Place. Most recently, the foundation made downtown Redding a focus of its efforts and hired Rachel Hatch to direct its new program on community vitality. She will be working with downtown stakeholders on revitalization efforts, solutions for homelessness and other projects. As president, Mancasola shoulders the responsibility for shepherding the foundation’s investments to ensure a rate of return that allows it to cover its operating expenses and meet the federal requirement to annually distribute at least 5 percent of its net worth. Fortunately, he says, he can draw on guidance from the foundation’s board of directors, which includes Salter, Doreeta Domke, William Cox and Robert Blankenship. Sitting at the top of an organization with those kinds of resources and overseeing the investments required to both keep it solvent and support its charitable giving is a challenge, Mancasola says. “It’s incredibly hard work, and for me, it’s always on. That said, it’s ultimately rewarding. It can be incredibly frustrating and incredibly challenging, but ultimately, it’s incredibly rewarding.” • www.mcconnellfoundation.org

Jon Lewis is a Redding-based writer with 37 years of experience. A longtime San Francisco Giants fan, his interests include golf, fishing and sharing stories about people, places and things. He can be reached at jonpaullewis@gmail.com.

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CO N N ECT I N G W I T H T H E CA M E R A OF BARBARA LUZZADDER WHEN RED BLUFF ARTIST Barbara Luzzadder heard there would be a super moon a few years ago, she immediately wondered if it would spend any time over Lassen Peak. If it did, she knew she'd strike gold in terms of photographic opportunity. “We scouted the night before and it was pretty close,” she says of the place she and her husband of 58 years, Johnny, staked out on Rio Street. Things didn't seem immediately promising when they returned the next night, but they remained faithful. Sure enough, though later than expected, “peeping over Mt. Lassen was this huge, huge moon,” she says. “We both just sat there crying with goosebumps.” The image Luzzadder captured that night is just one of many that cause people to gasp and exclaim when they see it. Not only did she nail the technical details of capturing a full moon, she caught the emotion of experiencing it in person. “I like photography as a story,” she says. “I want my photography to mean something to the viewer, to have a connection with them.” At 79 years old, Luzzadder has a long history of creating art that summons emotion. As a teacher and school librarian during her career in the Red Bluff Elementary School District, she noticed her middle school students didn't seem to enjoy poetry. So she set out to write and illustrate 17 poems that would appeal to them and turned the project into her master's thesis at Chico State University. “It was so much fun,” she says. “I incorporated experiences that happened at the school.” She then went on to present the poems in person. “I love having children enjoy something I have written,” she adds. More recently, Luzzadder returned to illustrating poetry when her dear friend, poet Patricia Wellingham-Jones of Los Molinos, asked her to provide a visual narrative of the poems she wrote chronicling her cancer journey. The two women displayed their art side by side at a special Healing Arts exhibit last year at the Enloe Cancer Center in Chico. “It was difficult,” says Luzzadder, “because I had to really get into her writing to walk the journey with her.” It was also cathartic, she adds, because both of her own parents succumbed to cancer and the project helped her process the emotions around those losses.4 continued on page 26

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Petite in frame, with a calm and quiet demeanor, Luzzadder exudes warmth and kindness. “I like people to enjoy my art, but I also don't mind kicking up a bit of controversy every once in a while,” she says. A still life she created of cat food can lids a few years ago took Best of Show at the Tehama District Fair, and the chatter around the piece wasn't always appreciative. She chuckles at the acquaintance who complained to her about it, not realizing that Luzzadder had created the winning entry. “I bet she's never going to forget that image,” she laughs. In fact, one of Luzzadder's most memorable images is a watercolor of downtown Red Bluff buildings that locals and visitors alike appreciate as a memory of the area. It's so popular that she's had the image printed on greeting cards, mugs and tote bags, which are brisk sellers at Enjoy the Store Red Bluff. “That goes back to when they first started working on the State Theatre. I think I painted that in about 1999,” she says. “I told myself that when I retired I was going to learn watercolors, so I took a watercolor class with Lee Warner and that's when I made that painting.” She ended up using the image as a fundraiser for the State Theatre, saying that it's important for her to give back to the community. These days, her energy in giving back is spent as an executive board member of the new Main Event Art Gallery in downtown Red Bluff. A collaboration of the Red Bluff Art Association, Tehama County Photo Club and Tehama County Arts Council (Luzzadder is a member of all of them), the gallery hosts rotating exhibits of local and visiting artists in a spacious, historical building. “This gallery,” she says, “I think it's really become the crown jewel of downtown Red Bluff.”

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S T R AW H O U S E R E S O R T A N D C A F E I N B I G F L AT DRIVE A LITTLE DISTANCE from Redding along Highway 299 to the west and before long, the Trinity River demands attention as the winding road skirts the river and sidles up against the Trinity Alps. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a glorious drive through deep canyons that, in places, spreads out into loosely connected communities with homes hiding on the hillsides and sparse businesses to serve them. About halfway between Redding and Arcata, the little village of Big Flat opens up to a sudden surprise just around one more bend as Strawhouse Resorts and Cafe comes into view. With its landscape of carefully tended gardens and lawns on both sides of the highway, the maturing vacation and event destination is for many an unexpected discovery. For many others, it is a frequent and favorite destination. Abundant bird species serenade from nearby shade trees while the Trinity River crashes along at the edge of the lawn with a thick forest rising from its opposite bank. The air freshens from the cool of the river and the fragrance of pine trees. The subtle smell of organic coffee, roasted on site, and wood-fired pizzas in the oven settles in among

quiet conversations on the patio that spread out from the cafe. From sunrise to sunset, mountain shadows ebb and wane, transforming the setting from moment to moment. Don Ellis built the cafe, a true straw bale building, and opened for business in 2000. He and wife Julia have labored in love, sweat and tears to give their dream substance. The vision has expanded and blossomed to include beautifully appointed cottages and a yurt, RV hookups, a full-blown coffee roasting operation, and a restaurant that majors on healthy and clean foods and juices, along with specialty coffees. The cafe features and sells the work of local artists and craftspeople inside and out. Don and Julia often join their regular guests who either live in the area or frequently travel between the North Coast and Redding for a brief sit-down and respite. With a loyal and well-trained staff, they make guests feel comfortable and welcome. They periodically schedule specialty classes covering everything from native herbal remedies to mosaic and jewelry making workshops.4 continued on page 30

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Spectacular views and food that rivals upscale urban restaurants have drawn a growing clientele from around the world, many of whom have become return guests who enjoy a peaceful getaway far from the loud demands of their daily lives. Guests can simply enjoy their peaceful accommodations or choose to fish from the riverbank or with a guide, take a day hike or use the resort as a launch pad for a more intense backpacking trip into the Trinity Wilderness Area. Strawhouse Resorts has become a popular event venue for weddings, reunions and retreats. The Ellises are intimately involved in their community, helping to boost tourism and providing job opportunities. “Don wants everybody to succeed together,” says Brianna Carreira, who has appreciated the encouragement she and husband Matt have received from the Ellises as they have built their businesses over the past six years. Proprietors of both Bigfoot Rafting and Steelhead Cottages in Big Flat, they work together with the Ellises to promote the resources and activities in their community. The couples have been working on extending hiking trails around their properties to encourage visitors to stay instead of just taking the jog inland as a stop-over for the rest of their vacation. The Ellises also work with other North State businesses. Samuel and Leah Furey of Country Organics enjoy a close relationship with the Ellises due to their shared passion for excellence, and they feature Strawhouse coffee in their store. The Ellises in turn purchase produce from Country Organics for the cafe. Kaleidoscope Coffee Company, with three locations in Redding and Anderson, carries its own label of carefully crafted organic coffee roasted especially for them by Strawhouse. Owners Dan and Mimi Burton work closely with the Ellises to produce an excellent coffee they are proud to serve. Dan says, “Don taught us everything we know about the craft of coffee. They may be suppliers, but we consider them partners.” The Ellises have created a little paradise in what may seem like the middle of nowhere, or as Don would say, “the middle of everywhere.” • Strawhouse Resorts and Cafe • 31301 State Hwy 299, Big Flat (530) 623-1990 • strawhouseresorts.com

Sandie Tillery Creating a picture with words has been Sandie’s small claim to fame for a good part of her life. A degree in journalism from San Francisco State University opened early professional writing opportunities. Now, as a long-time North State resident, she delights in discovering and describing wonderful people, places and events from this part of the world.

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S H A S TA B U I L D E R S E X C H A N G E TRADE SCHOOL IN REDDING WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO COLLEGE? What’s your major? What do you want to be when you grow up? Weighty questions for any teenager, to be sure – and even more daunting for those who simply can’t picture themselves at a university. Or in the military. Or at an entry-level job that may never afford them a life above the poverty line. But the road to a successful career doesn’t always travel through a university, says Shasta Builders Exchange Executive Director Joe Chimenti – the building trades can offer financial stability, freedom and flexibility. The private, non-profit Trade School in Redding provides training and education in the construction industry, and students can work in their field of choice while attending classes. “Our overall vision is to create rewarding career opportunities in the building trades,” Chimenti says. “Over the last 20 years, so much emphasis has been put on college, and it has disenfranchised young people who may be very bright and very talented, but not necessarily college bound. We want them to get them in a position where they can feel rewarded by what they can build with their hands.” Opportunity abounds in the trades, Chimenti says. “There are more than 3 million jobs that companies can’t fill because they don’t have skilled tradesmen,” he says. “You’re always going to want the lights to go on in your house, and for fresh water to come in and sewers to go out. You want a roof over your head. We want to build up the prestige and the pride of making things – to work with their hands and truly make a positive difference. The need for skilled tradesmen has never been greater.” 4 continued on page 34

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Part of the Shasta Builders Exchange, The Trade School offers National Center for Construction Education and Research industry standard training in electrical, plumbing and carpentry. Instructors are all active in the field or are semi-retired. For example, those teaching the electrical program are journeymen or master electricians, and a master plumber teaches the plumbing courses. “We take a lot of pride because we promote the trades from the trades,” Chimenti says. And the cost of the program is often less than just one year at most universities. “The goal is to get them rewarding careers, and in no case do we want money to be an obstacle for that,” Chimenti says. “We try to run lean and mean.” The electrical program is still the school’s most popular, with students taking 160 hours of coursework per year for four years. Classes are at night, so students can work in their field during the day, better preparing them for the workforce and for the required state certification test. Between 75 and 85 students take classes each semester, though they’d like to double that in the next year or so. And this classroom differs from any classroom you’ve seen before. Terminals, transformers and bins of electrical equipment line the walls. Labs feature lessons on topics like programmable logic control boards. Their textbooks include the National Electric Code, and many students wear dusty jeans and boots that tell the story of the 10 hours that preceded their arrival to the classroom. As electrician Steve Baczkowski (a graduate of The Trade School himself ) delivers a lesson about the mechanics of heating and air conditioning units, students occasionally chime in, sharing tidbits about what they’ve learned in the field.

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Peter McDermeit of Shingletown is in the middle of his fourth year at the school, and is on the verge of taking his certification test. He has also had to complete 4,800 hours of hands-on training. Trade school is ideal for “someone who enjoys learning, helping people out and working with their hands,” McDermeit says. “It’s like solving a puzzle, whether you’re installing something brand new or troubleshooting something that’s not working anymore. It’s making you understand from start to finish, how utilities go from PG&E to every single outlet and switch in your house. “We’re learning about things you take for granted at home,” McDermeit says. “You just plug stuff in, and you don’t know how it works. Now I can go fix problems for someone else. I can keep them safe, keep the water flowing and the lights on.” • www.shastabe.com/trade-school-training

Kerri Regan grew up in the North State and earned her bachelor’s degree in journalism from San Francisco State University. A freelance writer and editor, Kerri enjoys exploring the North State with her husband and three children.

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H E R E ’ S T O F U N T I M E S O N T H E WAT E R T H I S S U M M E R SUMMERTIME IN THE NORTH STATE can be described as beautiful. It can also be described as scorching – so it’s a good thing there are many local waterways. Here are a few fun ways to cool off on the water.

WHISKEYTOWN LAKE There are two main beaches at Whiskeytown Lake: Brandy Creek Beach and Oak Bottom Marina. Brandy Creek can be accessed by cruising down Highway 299, turning left (coming from Redding) at the visitor’s center and going about four miles further. Oak Bottom is right off Highway 299 on the left-hand side coming from Redding, about five miles past the visitor’s center. Besides swimming, kayaks, canoes and stand-up paddleboards can be rented at both beaches. Oak Bottom also rents a 24-foot pontoon that can hold up to 12 people, a 26-foot deck cruiser that can hold up to 10 people, a 35-foot party barge, a 16-foot fishing boat that can hold up to five people and a 17-foot fishing angler, which can also hold up to five people. Skis, tubes, wakeboards and kneeboards can also be rented at Oak Bottom.

Free, guided tours are also available, including kayak and stand-up paddleboard tours. Morning kayak tours begin at 9:30 am Friday through Monday and Wednesday. Afternoon kayak tours begin at 5:30 pm Saturday through Tuesday (morning and afternoon tours are two hours long). Moonlight kayak tours are on nights where the moon is full, including July 4 from 8-10 pm, August 2-6 and September 1-5 from 7:30-9:30 pm. Standup paddleboard tours are Friday through Monday and Wednesday from 2 to 3:30 pm. Reservations can be made up to two weeks in advance.4 continued on page 38

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LAKE SHASTA Lake Shasta is a playground for boats – namely houseboats. Various models can be rented, including the Diplomat (from $488 for two nights), the Monarch (from $557 for two nights), the Premiere (from $588 for two nights), the Ambassador (from $613 for two nights), the Marquis (from $697 for two nights), the Grand Marquis (from $1,267 for three nights) and the Empress (from $1,325 for three nights). Lake Shasta rents fishing boats, patio boats, party barges, party cruisers and ski boats. Personal watercrafts are also available for rent, including jet skis, single and double water skis, wakeboards, wakeskates, Sky Skis, kneeboards and inner tubes. Kayaks, canoes, paddleboards and pedal boats can also be rented for daily or weekly use. Also an option on Lake Shasta: dinner cruises. Presented by Lake Shasta Caverns, the evening includes dinner at sunset on the water. Dinner cruises depart twice weekly on Friday and Saturday evenings at 6:30 pm.

SACRAMENTO RIVER You can fish, kayak, canoe or float down the Sacramento River. There’s also the River Romance Dinner Cruise, a private, threehour dinner cruise in Redding that is perfect for any special occasion or “just because” with a loved one. There’s a hot summer ahead – but the North State offers plenty of ways to have fun while keeping cool. • For more information, call or visit www.whiskeytownmarinas.com Oak Bottom Marina (530) 359-2671 Brandy Creek Beach (530) 246-1056 www.headwatersadventure.com www.actionsportsrentals.org www.lakeshasta.com • (530) 238-2383 Lake Shasta Dinner Cruises • (800) 795-2283 www.riverromancecruises.com • (530) 222-2728 www.raftredding.com

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HIGH C H U C K H AW E S , B O W M A K E R WITH THEIR CAMS, pulleys, cables, stabilizers, sights and trigger releases, compound bows are cool, competent and uncannily accurate weapons capable of consistently putting arrows inside a 2-inch circle at 80 yards or more. Chuck Hawes says thanks, but no thanks. The Redding resident is a traditional archer and has been since he fell in love with the sport in the early 1970s. He favors a bow whose design has remained relatively unchanged since the Bronze Age. “It’s just what I prefer,” Hawes says. “It’s hard to be competitive but it’s what I enjoy. It’s much more pleasing to me to not have all the high-tech stuff. I’ve just always enjoyed the challenge.” Hawes accepts that his choice of bow means he’ll miss the bull’s eye more often than archers who use compound bows, but the tradeoff is the satisfaction and sense of accomplishment that comes from shooting a bow that has no sights or other accessories. When an arrow finds its mark, and it was cast from a bow that Hawes built, that sense of accomplishment goes through the roof. “The idea of achieving a goal with something I built is what it’s all about for me,” he says. Hawes is a bowyer, the term for those who build or sell bows, and it’s a craft he’s been honing since the mid-1980s when, while living in Oregon, he started getting serious about bow hunting for elk. He estimates that he’s built a couple hundred bows over the years. With their laminated layers of exotic hardwoods, each is a work of art and craftsmanship.4 continued on page 42

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It wasn’t always thus, however. Early on, Hawes befriended a local bowyer and initially managed to produce “a couple of eyesores” before his apprenticeship led him to Jim Brackenbury, an accomplished bowyer who is credited with helping launch the traditional archery movement. As his bow-making skills improved, so did his hunting success and his enthusiasm. Hawes’ encouragement soon had his brother-in-law, Rich Newton, and Newton’s wife, Cathy, out in the woods of eastern Oregon in pursuit of deer and elk with their bows. Hawes also fell in with a couple of traditional archers who shared his passion for bow hunting. Because they lack the speed and force of arrows shot from a compound bow, traditional archery hunters need to get considerably closer to their prey. That adds to both the challenge and the reward, Hawes says. “You don’t just grab a range-finder and adjust your sights. I know guys with compound bows who have shot from 80 or 90 yards, and that pretty much negates the whole point of hunting with a bow and an arrow. That’s only slightly removed from rifle hunting. I’ve shot elk from 10 yards. It’s a lot more challenging— and satisfying,” Hawes says.

the nicest guy. He really taught us how to target shoot.” As a result, “my brother-in-law, with a bow I made, set records in Oregon that lasted for years.” However, Hawes’ own shooting began to suffer as an inherited eye problem increasingly interfered with his vision. He says it got to the point where he figured his archery days were nearing the end when he returned to Redding in 2000. Fortunately, a pair of successful cornea transplant surgeries brought his vision back to near normal. Not only did the restored vision lift his spirits, but being able to share his love for traditional archery with his daughter, Shanea Hawes, and his grandson, Mason, has added to his joy. Naturally, they both shoot bows that Hawes built. The trio, representing three generations of the Hawes family, acquitted themselves in fine fashion in May at the annual Western Classic Trail Shoot—the second largest outdoor archery tournament in the country—on the Straight Arrow Bow Hunters’ 65-acre range on Swasey Drive in west Redding. Hawes, 60, even won his age division in the traditional archery class and 9-year-old Mason captured a national championship in the Cub

“I’m really thrilled my daughter and grandson are following in my footsteps. Giving back to archery is important, too.” Hawes emphasizes that, unlike some traditional archers, he bears no grudge against compound bow users. Nor is he about to change his ways. “I’m not ever going to stop just because everybody shoots circles around me,” he says with a laugh. During his time in Oregon, Hawes and his archery pals practiced and competed at an indoor range in Portland, where they were a minority compared with the number of compound bow users. “We thought we were pretty good shots, so we came down to Redding (in the late ’90s to compete in the big Western Classic Trail Shoot) and we got beat so bad it was embarrassing,” Hawes recalls. That dark cloud had a silver lining, though. Hawes met a competitor who lived just across the Columbia River from Hawes “and he was

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STUFF I T ’ S A L L I N T H E W O O L AT SHEPHERD’S DREAM A MATTRESS under construction at Shepherd’s Dream lies on the floor. Its organic cotton cover contains layer after layer of wool batting that lofts the mattress’s height to a full 12 inches. That’s too high, according to the woman kneeling beside it. To provide for a firm bed, the wool must be pressed flatter. Sarah Sunshine Smith, the company’s owner, performs this entirely by hand – and foot. Moving quickly, she lifts a corner and spears the mattress with a 10-inch needle. She pulls downward and repeats upward, threading a stitch through the mass of cotton and wool with a length of tufting twine. Then she places a bare foot on the mattress, toes positioned between loose ends of twine, and exerts just enough force to compress 12 inches down to the desired five. She knots the tuft with a flourish, and plants the needle for the next one, measuring only with her eyes. This deft demonstration follows the company philosophy: 100 percent natural and made with love, with dedication to the highest-quality craftsmanship, Shepherd’s Dream creates a pure, unique line of wool mattresses, toppers, comforters and pillows, says Smith. Though covered with organic cotton, the main ingredient in any Shepherd’s Dream bedding is the wool, which was chosen because it’s the most breathable of all the fabrics. “Breathability helps regulate your body temperature,” Smith explains. “This gives you a deeper,

sounder sleep, because you’re not being awakened by overheating or sweating.” Another advantage wool has over a cotton fill is its natural flame resistance. “When we flame-tested our mattress, it self-extinguished in half the time allowed,” she says. “And wool has incredible durability. It can last for generations.” A mattress finally discarded and exposed to the elements of sun, moisture and microbes in the soil will entirely, slowly decompose back to the earth. Smith’s skills with (and her love of ) wool began back when her last name was Jantz, after her mother, Eliana Jantz, started a bedding company in Petaluma. “I was born into it,” Smith says. “I was probably 5, 6, 7 when I made up stories about how I slept in wool beds.” Jantz says her young daughter was quite the promoter. “She would write things down about her and wool,” she recalls. “One time, she said she’s been using the wool for 20 years. She was only 8 or 9.” Naturally, when came the time for the wool girl to walk in a community parade, Sarah marched dressed as Little Bo Peep, shepherd’s crook and all. Both women remember it was at about age 15 when she really dug in to the family business, which by that time had grown enough in local influence to develop a criterion for responsible and sustainable wool production among Sonoma County farmers. When Sarah graduated high school, she was, in her mother’s words, “a master at making mattresses.”4 continued on page 48

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“SHE WOULD WRITE THINGS DOWN ABOUT HER AND WOOL,” SHE RECALLS. “ONE TIME, SHE SAID SHE’S BEEN USING THE WOOL FOR 20 YEARS. SHE WAS ONLY 8 OR 9.”

Back in those days, Jantz says, the country’s wool industry was in sharp decline. “It was getting hard to find wool,” she recalls. “It was being replaced by synthetic.” As processing facilities vital to her supply of quality wool began closing, she and friends joined forces and finances to set up their own carding mill, which opened in Montague in 2002. Its supply of premium wool ensured, Shepherd’s Dream prospered. In 2007, Smith bought the bedding business from her mother. Her husband, Nathon, bought the Montague facility, the Woolgatherer Carding Mill, which processes far more wool than is needed by Smith’s small bedding business. Today, the wool bound for Shepherd’s Dream begins with sheep sheared on select organic farms in California and Oregon. The fleece goes to a cleaning facility in Texas, the closest one in the country that the couple trusts to turn around the quantity and quality of wool they need. From there, it’s shipped to their mill in Montague, where workers run it through two buildings. In the first one, they toss wool fresh out of bales from Texas into a machine called the picker, as described by Woolgatherer Operations Manager Eric Smith (no relation). “The bales are compressed to about 600 pounds,” he says. “The picker opens up the fibers in the wool and prepares it for the carder.” The before-and-after difference is stunning; the wool goes from clumps to pure, white fluff. The second building houses the carder, a towering machine that combs the fluffy wool and feeds it into a

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system of rollers. They pass their soft, white load from one roller to another, each transfer rendering a thinner and thinner sheet of wool, until a conveyor belt gently stacks gossamer layers to create the final product, wool batting trademarked Premium Eco Wool. This ships out to, among many other places, Shepherd’s Dream in Mount Shasta. Owner Smith says she moved production down nearer to the mountain about three years ago, “because that’s where the workers live.” She employs six south county residents. Shepherd’s Dream also maintains showrooms in downtown Montague and in Ashland. Business is conducted by appointment only. Now a middle-aged woman with 25 years of experience in the natural wool business, Smith is proud she can produce quality wool bedding within her company’s vision of total sustainability. “We are definitely looking at the bigger picture,” she says. “Our children and our grandchildren and on from there.” • Shepherd’s Dream • (530) 926-3400 www.shepherdsdream.com Find them on Facebook and Twitter

Richard DuPertuis is a born writer and a new resident of Redding. During his 12 years in Dunsmuir, his stories and photographs appeared in Shasta and Siskiyou County newspapers. He strives for immortality through fitness and diet, and dreams of writing his first novel, any day now.

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“My music is influenced heavily by gospel, but it’s not gospel. It’s sort of a cross between Lawrence Welk and ZZ Top.” - Paul Thorn GROWING UP IN TUPELO, MISS., the son of a Church of God minister, singing and playing tambourine in Southern revivals, is what prepared Paul Thorn for a life in front of an audience. The area was rich in music tradition, and his hometown is the birthplace of Elvis Presley. His interest in music developed after he got into a school talent show and sang Lionel Ritchie’s “Three Times a Lady,” and won first place. He remembers that one of his biggest stylistic influences was popular Italian-American singer and performer Dean Martin. “As a kid, we didn’t have but three channels on our TV and the one show we

always watched was the Dean Martin Variety Hour. Dean Martin was a great singer, but he was also an incredible entertainer – he would pretend he was drunk. He would sing a real serious song and right afterwards he might tell a corny joke or throw a funny expression at the audience that made them laugh and feel like they were having a collaboration together. The way he did it really influenced me a lot. He would sing, but he would also entertain. If you just sing, you might as well go on American Idol and let them run you through the meat grinder.” As a teenager, he became fascinated with boxing. Coached by an uncle who was a former boxer, he began winning fights and ultimately turned professional. In 1987, he fought and lost to middleweight champion Roberto Duran on national television. A year or so after the Duran fight, he quit boxing and began working in a furniture factory by day, playing in area clubs and restaurants at night.4 continued on page 52

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TELL US ABOUT MOUNTAIN WINTU HERBS. My tinctures and remedies are made from sustainably wild craft harvested flowers, leaves and roots I find on my property or out in nature. Over the years, I’ve incorporated some certified organic materials, and some tinctures have a combination of both certified organic and wild harvested ingredients. I don’t have an official organic certification on my products – it’s really expensive and I’m not into paperwork – but I am committed to ordering from reputable companies that specialize in certified organic ingredients. I am not a licensed medical doctor, so I can’t make any medical claims, diagnose or treat medical problems, but as a native herbalist, I consider these nutritional supplements to be incredibly beneficial. WHAT INSPIRED YOU TO CREATE MOUNTAIN WINTU HERBS? From the time I could walk, I began learning from my great grandmother about natural medicine. She was Nor Rel Muk Wintu, a descendant of the first Californians. She’d tell me to grab a plant and eat it. To this day, my favorite food is cattail nubbins. Some people say it tastes like cucumber. I have a picture of my son eating it for the first time as little boy with a smile on his face. WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON SHE TAUGHT YOU? She taught me that you can live in the woods and everything you need is there. I have more than 60 years of formal training. My dad died and left me an inheritance and I took what was a hobby and made it into a business. WHAT WAS THE HARDEST LESSON YOU’VE LEARNED DURING YOUR WORK? When I was 36 years old, I spent 78 days in the wilderness, somewhere in Canada, right above Idaho. It was 1986, long before reality TV or GPS. They dropped me off in a helicopter and left me to live or die – with a wool blanket and a knife. I can’t say that it was a whole lot of fun. It took me six days to trap a deer and I had to finish the job. I tanned the hide and made a pair of shoes. HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHAT PRODUCTS TO CREATE? Sometimes a plant jumps out in front of me and demands that I spend my time with it. It’s how I develop new products. This year, the plant that has chosen me is Nigella Sativa. Some people call in black seed or black cumin. TELL US ABOUT YOUR BACKGROUND IN HEALTH EDUCATION. I have five masters degrees, including a teaching credential from San Jose State

University (I can’t not teach!) and an ethnobotany degree from Chico State University. I became a master herbalist instructor through the Global College of Natural Medicine. I spent six years in private study under a naturopath named Dov Nadel. Although I didn’t complete the training, we were able to develop two important concepts, integrated structural therapy and neuromuscular structuring, during our time together. WHAT ARE SOME OTHER THINGS YOU HAVE DONE WITH YOUR BACKGROUND AS AN HERBALIST? For the last eight years I have been supplying 1,500 pounds of Yerba Santa leaves (Wintu people call it mountain balm) to Mountain Rose Herbs in Eugene, Ore. It is sold to people all over the world. Have you ever heard of the Weston A. Price Foundation? He was a dentist and in the 1930s and ‘40s, he was of the belief that if people ate the right food, there would be no need to go to the doctor. I am the host for the Weston A. Price Foundation in Redding. We meet the second Tuesday of the month at United Methodist Church on East and South Street. SO, THERE IS SOMETHING TO THE PHRASE “AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY”? Yes. If you put the right stuff in, you’ll be at your best. At 67 years old, I have no medical needs. WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL FAVORITE PRODUCT AND WHY? The Solomon Seal has saved my life. They wanted to do some surgeries on my back, my neck and my shoulder, and I began using a tincture I made from maianthemum, a native Solomon Seal I found on my property. I haven’t had to have surgery. I tell people I am 47 years old and they believe me. WHAT IS YOUR BEST SELLER? My Fire Infusion. My formula has been copyrighted and my name has been registered. Somebody bought the name ‘Fire Cider’ and anyone who uses it is in violation of that copyright, so it goes by the name of Fire Infusion. My recipe for it is on my Facebook page. I’m offering classes to teach others how to make it. They’ll get a bottle of it when they take a class. WHERE CAN YOUR PRODUCTS BE PURCHASED IN THE NORTH STATE? I’m at the Redding Farmers Market on Saturdays and at the Weaverville Farmers Market on Wednesdays. I’m at several local stores, including Enjoy the Store in Redding and Red Bluff. There’s a complete list of locations on my website. There is also a list of upcoming events on my Facebook page. •

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OFFICE S TO N E WAY C R O S S F I T I N M O U N T S H A S TA BEHIND THE HUGE ROLL-UP DOORS is the Box—a large space with padded floors, weights and a rack of pullup bars. It is a silent cavern, but when found at the right moment, it is host to a community of diverse individuals, dreams and activities. Young and old, thin and thick, outgoing and shy, each person who comes here is considered an athlete. Their qualifications are a willingness to work hard, a dedication to their own fitness and their joining a team of people with a like heart. At the center of the Box is Scott Rodriguez. “Nineteen years ago I left Mount Shasta on a journey,” Rodriguez says. “My life was centered around the question of what will I do?” Three years in the Navy and Rodriguez came back to the same question. He began to train in nursing, but then transitioned to exercise science. After graduation, he found work as a personal trainer in downtown Seattle. “I married my wife Katie. I worked a lot of hours, spending my day at the job, and earning extra money doing exercise boot camps at the park before and after work,”

Rodriguez says. “A new boss called me in and said I couldn’t do both jobs. I had to make a choice, and that became my last day working for someone else. It was just the right timing to make a change.” CrossFit was introduced by Greg Glassman in 2000, and there are now more than 13,000 “boxes” worldwide. CrossFit is a combination of everything: Weight lifting, stretching, cardio, gymnastics. “The exciting thing about CrossFit is it’s for everyone,” Rodriguez says. “It doesn’t matter your age, height, weight or strength. It begins exactly where you are.” For Rodriguez, the world of CrossFit became an opportunity to begin where he was now in life. The search for a location in Seattle to open his own “box” began. Rodriguez found a place, wondering if he would even make rent. “I didn’t realize how loyal my clients from my old job would be. I had enough people to support the ‘box’ from day one and for the past seven and a half years.”4 continued on page 58

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Rodriguez thought his journey was complete. Married, a successful business, he found his rhythm in Seattle, far from where he grew up. In 2016, he took his family to Mount Shasta to visit his parents over the Fourth of July. The mountains, forest and old friends brought Rodriguez to wonder if he could move back. “I wanted my children to have the same opportunities and experiences growing up that I had in this community.” “I talked to Katie and we decided to try it for one year. We found a location for a new box. I made arrangements with my Seattle business, and on Aug. 20, StoneWay CrossFit opened in Mount Shasta,” Rodriguez says. “Here I was in a much smaller community, with a new idea. The first month, I had more clients than I had in Seattle after the first year. We are the only CrossFit Facility between Redding and Yreka, where in Seattle there are 20 places within three miles.” The people in CrossFit become a unique family. Together they go through the WOD (workout of the day), each person taking on the task at their level. Teenagers to seniors, everywhere in the physical spectrum move together. “Age and ability aren’t the focus,” says Rodriguez. “It’s about each person achieving a quality of life, gaining strength, flexibility and a healthy life.” StoneWay CrossFit offers the first week free so anyone can get a glimpse into what CrossFit has to offer. It’s a way of getting to know the sport and the family who go there. At the start or end of each session, the athletes gather in a circle for an icebreaker. “I want to get to know our athletes,” Rodriguez says. “An athlete is usually judged by their ability, but we care about who you are outside of the box and not only when you are here. I want us to choose to grow together.” • Find StoneWay CrossFit on Facebook

Gary VanDeWalker grew up in Mount Shasta, returning to the area from San Diego with his wife Monica. He manages the Narnia Study Center. A Ph.D. in philosophy, he writes on a variety of subjects, including more than 100 articles for Enjoy. 58

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FUTUR E PLANS E N T E R P R I S E H I G H S C H O O L' S D R A F T I N G S T U D E N T S DREW JOHNS DESIGNED his dream home—all 10,000 square feet of it. He gave it a “retro-modern” vibe with plenty of luxury touches. The kitchen, for example, has a mirror ceiling and wraparound bar with under-counter lighting. The color scheme is black and yellow. No surprise there. Those are the colors of Enterprise High School in Redding, where Drew begins his senior year in August. He’s one of 50 students from Rick Wolford’s drafting classes whose house designs will be featured at the California State Fair in Sacramento in July. Wolford invites his students to turn a classroom assignment into an entry for the fair’s California Student Showcase. When he first offered that option 10 years ago, five students took him up on the challenge. “It sort of has taken off from there,” Wolford says, noting that about a third of his 160 to 170 drafting students now enter. Enterprise has earned a winning reputation. “Over the last 10 years, Enterprise has placed more students than any other school in California in the category of CAD (computer-aided design) 3-D renderings and pictorials,” Wolford says.

He’s been at Enterprise 15 years and a teacher for 34 years. In 2013-14, Wolford was honored as the high school teacher of the year for Shasta County. His drafting students learn computer design and 3-D printing, as well as oldfashioned hand-drafting. “I wouldn’t feel right if they couldn’t identify a T-square or templates,” Wolford says. “It’s so low-tech that it’s pretty fun for them.” At Enterprise, drafting is hands-on, project-based learning. “They have to use a lot of critical thinking. It is a lot of problem solving,” Wolford says. Drafting, metalworking and woodworking – the areas Wolford concentrated on in college – have been squeezed by declining revenues and enrollment, as well as a push for more academic classes over the years. But the value of vocational education is getting more attention recently, Wolford says. A class like drafting benefits students whether they go into the trades or onto a four-year college. Senior Herman Tierney signed up for Drafting 1 as a junior to satisfy the district’s computer proficiency requirement for graduation.4 continued on page 62

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“I started to realize this is something more than just a computer class.”

“I started to realize this is something more than just a computer class,” he says. He put his house plans in the state fair competition last year and went to Sacramento to witness them on display. “It was cool to see how everyone else made theirs,” he says. Herman took Drafting II senior year, concentrating on design with 3-D printing. “The value of learning this is pretty much learning how to work out your problems,” he says. If something doesn’t work – and it often doesn’t at first – he’s learned, “I’ll just figure it out.” Wolford says students enjoy the open-endedness of the house plans assignment. “They like that they can be creative.” “It’s really fun,” says Alex Pierson, a senior. She designed a four-bedroom, 3,611-square-foot home and entered the plans in the state fair. Her house makes the most of natural light, with French doors and lots of windows. “You learn a bit about yourself, the kinds of things you like and don’t like,” she says. “I can make it my way,” says Drew of his 10,000-square-foot design. “It’s like Burger King, except the house edition.” He worked on his plans in class and during many of his lunch periods. Sophomore Adam Shoff says after putting so much time into creating plans for a 3,900-square-foot cedar-sided home, it made sense to enter them in the fair. Is architecture a field he might pursue?

“Over the last 10 years, Enterprise has placed more students than any other school in California in the category of CAD (computer-aided design) 3-D renderings and pictorials.”

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“I don’t know,” Adam says, “but it sure is fun.” The assignment covers concepts of house layout, construction and construction materials. Wolford also talks to the students about costs, including how interest on a 30-year home loan adds to the price tag of a house. “It’s not just the building side, but the consumer side as well,” he notes. The house assignment covers about 15 weeks of class time. Wolford heads to Sacramento every summer to view his students’ work at the state fair. “It’s good for me,” he says. “I can see what other schools are doing. I am competitive by nature myself. It pushes me to be ahead of the curve.”• California State Fair, July 14–30 1600 Exposition Blvd., Sacramento www.castatefair.org

Laura Christman is a freelance writer in Redding with a degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a long career in newspaper journalism. Contact her at laurachristman14@gmail.com.

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R E D D I N G FA S H I O N A L L I A N C E B R I N G S D E S I G N T O L I F E IT’S FUN TO DREAM. Perhaps your daydreams include plans for your future? Or perhaps the future of your community? Last year, Rachel Hatch turned her daydream into the question “What if Redding…?” and posited that question in her column in the Record Searchlight. Turns out, she wasn’t the only one dreaming. #WhatifRedding became a trending topic, and accessories designer Jan Kearns answered with this response: “#WhatifRedding independent makers got together to explore ways to collaborate to bring small batch manufacturing to our community? Designers and makers might form a collective to share space, resources, and ideas.” Fashion designer Robin Fator had also been wondering how to bring small manufacturers back to the area. The three women got together and Redding Fashion Alliance was formed.

“The creative economy is what we’re interested in growing,” says Hatch, a futurist with an extensive background in technology and business. “There is no ‘hub’ of manufacturing north of San Francisco.” Hatch, Kearns and Fator came together at the Shasta Venture Hub to see who was out there. Kearns says a lot of people are designing and creating in the textile industry, but independently. They have Etsy shops or work from home. “Those are the kinds of people we started finding,” she says. Adds Fator, “People have fashion backgrounds but haven’t pursued it. So we’re trying to figure out who those people are and what role they may want.” However, one giant obstacle stood in the way—lack of sewists. A relatively new term, “sewist” combines the words “sew” and “artist” to describe someone who creates sewn works of art, which can include clothing or other items 4 continued on page 66

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made with sewn elements. Why is it so hard to find people who sew? There are many reasons, says the self-taught Fator. People aren’t taught how to sew, it’s not a skill handed down anymore and it’s no longer cheaper to make one’s own clothes, as the cost of fabric has gone up. “We’re an alliance to support everyone in the fashion industry to boost the creative economy in the Redding area,” says Kearns. “We need to build the skill set.” It’s important to the women to also teach the business education side – how to open an Etsy shop, how to make a living. “There isn’t a lot of education around the creative economy,” says Fator. Home economics is not standard curriculum anymore; however, many junior high and high school students want to learn to sew, and businesses need sewers and can’t find enough. Even though thousands of people came out to the Maker Faire, the women say it’s been hard to find people with advanced skills to partner with. “There are three communities we’re trying to reach,” says Hatch. “Makers, Learners and Fashion Patrons.” Redding Fashion Alliance is a non-profit organization – a fiscal project with the Shasta County Arts Council – that is elevating fashion in the North State. Its mission is to foster and strengthen the local fashion community through education, economic development, opportunity and collaboration. The Alliance seeks to fill a void that has gone on for too long in this area: lack of creative manufacturing. “People need a chance to create,” says Fator. So Redding Fashion Alliance offers a creative space for all types of artists. “They can come in here and work for the day. We want to take away the barrier of equipment.” The Fashion Alliance shares a space in ArtsMart Creative Studios, a part of the Shasta County Arts Council. “Working with artists is a nice environment,” says Kearns. “Sharing space together makes sense – we all make things.” They offer sewing equipment, a cutting space, pressing station, even a photography studio. In addition to a workspace, they also offer business and sewing classes, as well as a kids’ camp in the summer. “It’s important to have a space to gather,” says Fator. It’s also important to connect artists with other artists; if someone needs a photographer, or model, they will hook them up. “Come in for a day, come in full time, people need a place to create,” she says. (Prices for studio use are on the website.) The Alliance has three main objectives: Teach, have space and equipment available and bring more awareness that there is high-quality fashion in Redding. “We want to encourage patrons to shop locally,” says Fator, “so the money they would spend out of town stays here. Because we’re a non-profit we need the community’s support to sustain.”

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They value feedback to find out what people want, and know the importance of networking. “Convene and convene and convene your community,” Hatch says. To build the fashion industry, it’s critical to create an ecosystem of support and resources, and these women have done their homework. “There’s a growing desire to have things made in the U.S., a pride in U.S.-made goods,” Kearns says. They call it “resource versus outsource.” “There’s a handmade movement happening, Fator adds. “And one person really can make a difference.” Big picture, the goal for Redding Fashion Alliance is to create an industry to make jobs in the North State. Says Kearns, “We’re setting the stage for opportunities, then finding ways to be ready when those opportunities arise.” Never underestimate the power of a daydream. • Redding Fashion Alliance 244 Hartnell Ave. www.reddingfashionalliance.org Find them on Facebook and GoFundMe

Melissa Gulden grew up in Redding, and worked as a makeup artist for years before going into teaching. She is currently working on her doctorate in English Education. She loves USC football, the SF Giants, and all things summer.

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F O U R D E C A D E S O F E X H I B I T S AT S I S S O N M U S E U M THE OLDEST FISH HATCHERY west of the Mississippi River sits on the outskirts of Mount Shasta. When the California Department of Fish and Game was getting ready to tear down an old building at the hatchery back in the 1980s, a group of Mount Shasta residents went down to Sacramento and persuaded the state to let them use the building for a museum. Then a crew of volunteers got to work and restored the building, opening it up as the Mount Shasta Sisson Museum on July 4, 1983. Thirty-four years later, it’s still an all-volunteer operation. A crew of about 30 people do the landscaping and building maintenance, plan and build exhibits, raise operating funds, staff the front desk and run the cash register in the museum’s gift shop. If you see a guy with a hammer or saw prowling around the building, that’s probably Jim McChesney, the president of the museum’s

board of directors and the guy who builds its exhibits. Griff Bloodhart, the museum’s treasurer, is a train buff who’s constantly making improvements to the museum’s elaborate model railroad train. Over the years, the museum has covered a wide array of subjects, from the town of Mount Shasta’s history to the impact of fire on the region, from the legendary writer Joaquin Miller’s exploits to the habits of black bears. Its current exhibit looks at the geology and volcanic legacy of the Mount Shasta region. Ideas for exhibits, according to Museum Director Jean Nels, come mostly from community members and other museum visitors, people who are curious about what goes on inside the nearby mountain, or the reported sightings of space ships and Lemurians on its slopes.4 continued on page 70

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“IF WE WEREN’T HERE, WHO WOULD BE SAVING AND SHARING THOSE STORIES?”

The 65-inch screen TV has a video showing a 360-degree view of Mount Shasta taken on a helicopter flight around the mountain. Visitors get to see the mountain from all sides, and the labels help identify important features on the mountain. Photo courtesy of Sisson Museum.

The railroad exhibit includes many interactive opportunities for children and adults - a wooden train set, a model railroad, and a control panel from a 1960s diesel locomotive. Photo courtesy of Sisson Museum.

The Sisson Museum gets the biggest chunk of its revenues, just over half, from donations from individuals and businesses. It cobbles together the rest of its operating funds from grants, memberships, fundraisers and even yard sales. Some day it hopes to be able to afford a paid staff and avoid becoming what Nels describes as “a museum of a museum,” something that can happen when a museum’s core group of volunteers loses its initial energy and enthusiasm and the museum becomes static, with the same exhibit year after year. With a view toward the future, the museum’s board is looking at endowments and support from local government to help provide a stable source of income and long-term sustainability. Meanwhile, plans are in the works for an unusual pairing of exhibits for next year: an exploration of the spiritual journeys people have been making to Mount Shasta since the 1930s, and a history of tattoos. With the latter exhibit, the museum hopes to attract a demographic that doesn’t always show up in large numbers: members of the millennial generation. Any visitor will immediately be struck by the time and energy that has gone into the museum’s exhibits, from the beautifully restored room from a 19th century resort hotel to the shiny, like-new 1915 fire engine that was part of an earlier fire exhibit.

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Jean Nels, executive director of the Sisson Museum, stands under a photo of a lenticular cloud by Kevin Lahey. Photo by Tim Holt.

Visiting the museum can be exciting for kids, too, because every exhibit includes games and other interactive features to entertain and educate them. These include puppet animals, a wooden train set, a fire station playhouse—and, in the old hotel room, clothes from a bygone century that they can dress up in. Nels points out that the Sisson Museum’s core function is to tell the stories that help people understand their town and their region, its natural and its human features. “If we weren’t here, who would be saving and sharing those stories?” she asks. The Sisson Museum’s current exhibit is “Volcano: Mount Shasta, Inside and Out.” • Sisson Museum • 1 North Old Stage Road, west side of Interstate 5 next to the Mount Shasta Fish Hatchery Admission: $1 suggested donation Hours: Daily, 10 am to 4 pm through Labor Day, then Friday through Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm through December 11 (530) 926-5508 • www.mtshastamuseum.com

Tim Holt is a longtime journalist, the editor of the quarterly North State Review, and the author of “On Higher Ground,” a futuristic novel set in the Mount Shasta region. He lives in Dunsmuir, and is an avid cyclist and hiker.

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