Enjoy Magazine: Northern California Living — October 2020

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good things O LIVE YO U Beyond the Olive Grove

lasting legacy 19 | Leaving a Priceless Gift for Loved Ones 23 | The Independent Order of Odd Fellows in Downtown Redding 33 | Lake Almanor - the Perfect NorCal Retreats 43 | The Excellence of Matt’s Woodworks 49 | Slade Giles, Legacy Project

inspiration 36 | Redding Team Takes on the Fiji Eco Challenge

interest 52 | Finding Fall Foliage in Siskiyou 57 | The Ghostly Legend of Summit Lake

in every issue 15 | My Town: Shelly Davis 63 | CAD—California Adventure Academy 69 | Downtown Details 70 | Enjoy the View—by Lori Mallory Eckhart 74 | What’s Cookin’—Le Testimony Organic Southwestern Pasta Salad 78 | Giving Back—Children’s Legacy Center

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SKILLS TEST

Students are putting newly learned firefighting skills to the test at Red Bluff High School. With a grant from The McConnell Fund of the Community Foundation of the North State, the high school purchased cutting-edge equipment that simulates multiple fire scenarios.

The grant-funded props and simulators fill the house with smoke, display flames on a screen, and use infrared technology that allows a fire hose to point at the display and knock down the simulated fire. Additional community partnerships contributed an old house, an ambulance, a fire truck and gear so students can experience real-world scenarios of fighting fire.

Better than any video game, students beam with excitement and pride as they work as a team to hone their skills. Students regularly exclaim, “That was AWESOME!” Instructor Scott Spangler reports classes have become increasingly popular and, upon graduation, many students are employed by area fire agencies because of the tremendous skills they’ve gained.

Red Bluff High School: https://rbhs.rbhsd.org The McConnell Fund of the Community Foundation of the North State provides grants of equipment or other capital needs for nonprofits and public entities in Modoc, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity counties on an annual basis. In a long-standing partnership, The McConnell Foundation and the Community Foundation of the North State work together to build stronger communities through philanthropy.

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LIFE CAN BE SHORT, but our imprints can last long after we’re gone. Gifts of the heart leave legacies of love, and we’ve got plenty of ideas to spark your creativity. Signature recipes, family scrapbooks, new traditions – how will you leave your mark?

It’s easy to make memories that last forever while still respecting the “don’t-travel-too-far” rules. Take a selfie by the giant olive before treating yourself to some table olives, olive oil or even an olive oil milkshake in Corning, the Olive Capitol of the World.

Lake Almanor near Lassen Volcanic National Park offers abundant outdoor recreation, while up in Siskiyou County, you can search for the ghost of Summit Lake or discover some of the state’s most magnificent fall foliage.

Four North State residents have built a “tough as nails” legacy by trekking through Fiji as part of the Amazon Prime-televised EcoChallenge race. Team Regulators scaled waterfalls, trekked through jungles and navigated an eight-kilometer stretch of river in a quest to test their physical and mental limits.

We’re proud to be building our own little legacy right here in the North State – it’s Enjoy Magazine’s 14th birthday, and it’s been such a thrill to share our area’s most notable people, places and things with you over the years. Thanks to our advertisers, writers, photographers, graphic designers, salespeople, delivery people and readers for being part of our ever-evolving, always-growing, forever-innovating team.

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MN BSN-RN PHN CCHP / Siskiyou County Health & Human Services / Director, Public Health Division / Director of Inmate Health / Director of Nursing My husband Drake and I are both Siskiyou County natives raised amongst the breathtaking view of majestic Mt. Shasta, and surrounded by the lush green mountains and crystal clear mountain lakes. We love to escape the day-to-day by boating at the McCloud Reservoir and lose ourselves in all of its beauty. I love the true four seasons that we experience: newly born springtime, hot sultry summers, a burst of warm colors in the fall with warm days and cool nights and then move into the winter wonderland. Living in Yreka, we are an equal distance to many mountain lakes and rivers, and a mere 3.5 hours from the gorgeous Oregon coast.

Aside from the beauty of Siskiyou County, it also brings with it the small-town charm that I have grown to love. So many of us have been raised here and so many of us know each other and look out for one another. Our children have grown up together and have either gone off for work or college, and they often happen to stray back home, not just for the beauty of the area but also because it is truly home.

I had the blessing of really getting to know my community and neighbors, as I was a stylist in Yreka for 30 years as well as a salon owner. In 2007, I decided to hang up my scissors and take on a new career that would forever change my life, and to do so I needed a college degree. So at age 51, I had completed all courses at College of the Siskiyous to receive an AA and an AS degree and obtain my Registered Nursing license. I then attended Simpson University and earned my bachelor’s of science in nursing and healthcare management certification, and continued on to obtain my master’s in nursing leadership from Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, Ore., providing me with the skills and leadership qualities to take on the Director of Public Health position for Siskiyou County. All without ever having to leave my own hometown.

Fast-forward to January 2020, and the world’s first public health pandemic of our lifetimes, COVID-19. As the Director of Public Health, my wonderful team and I are at the forefront of this pandemic, and I couldn’t be prouder of every one of them. I have witnessed our communities come together in ways I had never dreamed, the tight collaboration between county, cities and nonprofits, businesses and citizens all working diligently to keep COVID from destroying our communities economically, educationally and physically. Siskiyou County residents have proven that they truly support one another and provide assistance to those in need, and I am extremely honored and humbled to be part of this community and feel truly blessed that I have been a part of it from the beginning, and will forever call Siskiyou County my home.

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The workshop will be held as a series of seven virtual sessions to create a community action plan around local food and place making.

Virtual Workshop Sessions Tuesday, October 13 1. Opening 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (all PDT) 2. Case Story Sharing 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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m Lasting Legacy L E AV I N G A P R I C E L E S S G I F T F O R L O V E D O N E S

LIFE IS SHORT. Legacies – those tangible and intangible gifts that we create for our families, friends and even those we may never meet – live on long after we are gone. It is an oft-held belief that leaving a legacy that stands the test of time involves passing along financial wealth or property to someone you love. While ensuring that your loved ones are in a position to take care of themselves once you are gone is the textbook definition of a legacy, there are many ways to make a lasting impression that have nothing to do with money. Those gifts of the heart can be given no matter how much or how little you have in your bank account. Follow along for a dozen ways to leave a legacy of love.

• Create a signature dish, write the recipe down and teach a family member how to prepare it. There is something about food prepared with love that can transport people back to a treasured moment with a loved one.

• Teach a trade or skill you have mastered to someone from a younger generation. As the world begins to move quickly, there isn’t always enough time to share our wisdom. Take someone under your wing.

Whether it is the time-honored craftsmanship involved in woodworking, quilting, sewing, metalsmithing or masonry, these are creative and functional gifts you can pass along. The world will thank you.

• Make sure your children and grandchildren know “the basics.”

Teach them the art of tying a tie, hemming a dress or pressing a shirt like a pro. Show them how to plant and nurture a garden and how to love a pet. Show them how to take pride in their space – no matter how big or small it is. Explain how to balance a checkbook, how to save and how to invest. These are life lessons they will carry into adulthood and pass along to future generations.

• Create a piece of artwork that can be passed on to your descendants.

Art is a gift – not only for the person who creates it, but for those who get to experience it. You’ll enjoy the process of painting your favorite landscape, throwing a stunning piece of pottery on a wheel, writing a beautiful melody or crafting a piece of furniture – and giving something you created to your family means they will always have a piece of your heart. 4 continued on page 20

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• Put together a photo album, scrapbook and a family tree. If you know where you have come from, you can find the strength to get where you are going. Make sure your family knows their personal history. Print out your photos and make sure they are labeled with names, birth dates and places of birth whenever possible. Share the stories of your ancestors with the ones who are here to walk in their footsteps or carve new pathways.

• Start a charitable organization in honor of a cause that is near and dear to your heart. It is not about the money – it is about making a commitment to someone you may never meet. Get others involved in the process of building a scholarship fund. Gather a group that will collect winter coats for those in need. Spearhead an organization that pairs homeless pets with someone who would love a four-legged best friend. A huge leap is not required to make a difference. It just takes a steady stride of small steps in the right direction.

• Start a tradition. Whether it’s working at a soup kitchen on Christmas Day with your family or reading books to an awe-inspired circle of children at the library each week, do something that makes a difference for someone else and make a habit of it.

• Tell your story. Share your life experiences with your loved ones – the happy moments, the not-so-happy ones, the times you have been embarrassed and those that leave you doubled over in laughter at the thought. That vulnerability – the ability to be a perfectly imperfect human being – is a rare and precious gift.

• Record love messages for your family. Whether you make a series of tapes or videos, record a podcast or write a memoir, find a fun way to tell your loved ones how much they matter to you and all of the ways they make you proud. Sometimes, words get lost in the shuffle of everyday life. Having the ability to hear your words or a chance to see you on camera when your loved ones need it most is a treasure of monumental proportions.

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m The greatest legacy one can pass on to one’s children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one’s life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

-Billy Graham

• Make sure your affairs are in order. This is not necessarily about making sure you leave your home to your children or your life savings to your grandchildren – although it is necessary to make sure you have everything allocated as you see fit. It is about making sure that there are no loose ends for someone else to have to tie up later.

Discuss your plans with family so you are on one accord.

Get rid of any stuff you do not need. Leave a blessing and not a burden to your family.

• Spend quality time with your loved ones. Take epic vacations together – even if they are only in your backyard.

The time spent connecting with your loved ones will be something they will remember and appreciate for always.

• Set an example of kindness. No matter how much or how little you own – no matter if you are world-famous or

just famous to those who love you – the goodness you pour into the world will find a way to keep on giving.

Children and grandchildren who are imparted with consistent examples of what it means to be a good human will pass it on to their own children and grandchildren.

When they speak of you, let it be that they always marvel at the love you shared with the world. •

Kimberly N. Bonéy, proud wife and mom, is a freelance writer, designer, up-cycler and owner of Herstory Vintage. When she’s not working, she is joyfully wielding jewelry-making tools and paintbrushes in her studio. Antique shops, vintage boutiques, craft stores and bead shops are her happy place.

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blending old with new

T H E I N D E P E N D E N T O R D E R O F O D D F E L LOW S I N D OW N TOW N R E D D I N G ONE OF REDDING’S oldest buildings is part of the new mix of changes coming to downtown. The Independent Order of Odd Fellows hall at the corner of Market and Butte streets was built in 1888 when Redding’s commercial core was just a smattering of businesses along dirt streets. It was melded into The Mall in the 1970s and decades later became part of the openair Downtown Promenade. The IOOF building now begins the next chapter in its long history: community gathering space.

The ground floor will be available for meetings, presentations, poetry readings, pop-up art exhibits, webinars, small concerts and … well, pretty much whatever a community group might need an indoor place

to accomplish. “I’m not going to limit what this space can be used for,” says Viva Downtown Executive Director John Truitt. “We want people to think about the space and what they want to do with it.”

The nonprofit, devoted to cultural, social and economic development in downtown Redding, is managing the building’s first floor for The McConnell Foundation. The philanthropic foundation purchased the Odd Fellows hall for $400,000 in November 2018 from the IOOF Redding Lodge.

Community vitality is a focus area of the foundation, with downtown Redding the priority. The foundation is leading and partnering on projects to bring new retail,4

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housing, walkways, bikeways, green spaces and other changes to downtown. It was thrilled with the opportunity to purchase the IOOF Hall – a flagship building in a key location, says Shannon Phillips, McConnell’s chief operating officer. “It’s a solid, beautiful building with great architecture,” she says.

Paying attention to the past is important when moving forward, Phillips says.

“It adds rich character to a community when you blend the old with the new.”

The Odd Fellows hall is the oldest brick building in downtown Redding. Its original red-brick identity is hidden under a layer of stucco, as are arched windows on the second floor.

The building was celebrated as a point of pride when completed in 1888. IOOF was popular and powerful in that era. Many civic leaders and politicians were members. The fraternal organization provided charitable services in a time when government social programs didn’t exist. IOOF commands were “to visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphan.”

Redding’s new IOOF building got statewide attention in 1900 when the Redding Lodge hosted the Grand Encampment of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows of California. Some 500 visitors arrived. The city’s population was only 2,940.

“To accommodate the biggest crowd the town has ever attempted to entertain, every residence in Redding has been thrown open to provide sleeping quarters for the guests,” the San Francisco Call reported.

A temporary arch over Market Street was festooned with IOOF emblems and hundreds of lights. “Redding presents the most beautiful appearance in all its history,” the San Francisco Call declared.

The IOOF building was designed for dual duty – the upstairs for lodge activities and the ground floor for retail space to generate income for the lodge.

The McConnell Foundation doesn’t yet have a plan for the upstairs, Phillips says. That portion of the building has a frozen-in-time feel. There are high ceilings with embossed tinplate tiles, a large meeting room and the Odd Fellows insignia of the all-seeing eye and three-link symbol representing friendship, love and truth on one wall.

The ambiance is contemporary on the ground floor, which has seen many changes over the decades. One of the first businesses in the space was Firth Brothers (later Mark Firth Company), offering an eclectic jumble of merchandise from the 1890s to 1944.

“The stock was placed in big boxes stacked from floor to ceiling and the clerks would climb ladders that rolled on tracks … Horace Firth sat on a platform in the middle of the store so he could watch everybody,” recalled Mabel Frisbie in Shasta Historical Society’s 1972 Covered Wagon.

Thompson’s Clothing Store began its 80-year run in 1926 in the IOOF building.

A compounding pharmacy was a more recent tenant. Its laboratory-type workstations and two utility sinks remain. Viva Downtown kept the configuration to see if community groups are interested in using it for activities.

The contract for Viva Downtown to manage the 3,800-square-foot lower level of the building was finalized late last year. The organization then cleaned, painted, installed a large-screen TV, established a WiFi connection and defined areas for small conferences and presentations. The COVID-19 pandemic put a pause on the action, but Truitt hopes to soon bring in community organizations to tour the space and imagine how it might be put into play.

Groups will be able to use areas for no cost or low cost, Truitt says. “I’m pretty stoked about the possibilities,” he says. “I’m really looking forward to what happens next.”• Viva Downtown • www.vivadowntownredding.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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(school) High achiever I will be graduating from Shasta College with my Associate Degree in Business Accounting before I graduate high school. I am a 17-year-old, homeschooled, high school senior, and I have been attending Shasta College part-time since I was 13. While enrolled at Shasta College, I have served as the Vice President of Leadership for our honor society, Phi Theta Kappa. I’m also working toward earning my Black Belt in Shorin Ryu Karate and my Eagle Scout. I will receive my high school diploma two weeks after I graduate from Shasta College this coming spring. After graduation, I will transfer and earn a double major in Accounting and Engineering.

Ultimately, I hope to obtain my master’s in Engineering.

Shasta College has been the best experience for me. Besides my transfer required courses, I have also found a love for glassblowing, swimming, economics, ASL, and history. I have made many friends through different campus activities and have learned so much about what direction I want to follow in my life. Since I am on the Autism Spectrum the P.A.C.E. program has been an invaluable resource. I have had amazing teachers, small classes of all varieties, and many opportunities to make friends.

The resources on campus and accommodations for those of us dealing with disabilities are excellent.

Times are different now, as opposed to a year ago. We are now learning online instead of in person. This has been challenging, but the teachers, counselors, and administrators are working hard to make the transition easier. After attending classes at both the Tehama campus and Redding Campus, I would recommend Shasta College to anyone! Shasta College offers something for everyone. I believe that Shasta College has provided me with the best start in my higher education.

Patrick Shasta College Knight, 2021

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OLIVE YOU B E YO N D T H E O L I V E G R OV E

FANS OF quirky roadside attractions have enjoyed taking pictures at what’s fondly referred to as the Giant Olive at South Avenue and Hall Road in Corning for years now. Some find it by happenstance and others follow directions from the popular website Roadside America.

This 15-foot sculpture of a green olive skewered with a toothpick doesn’t have a sign explaining its progeny, but it’s a fun welcome to a town that has developed from its inception through olive production.

“Olives have been the capital of Corning for as long as the city has been around,” says Christina Hale, executive manager of the Corning Chamber of Commerce. “The climate is perfect for olives. They’re on the tree almost all year long and our dry summers make for good conditions.”

Indeed, the olive heritage can be seen in groves around town now more than 100 years old and still growing strong.

Mission and Sevillano are the primary varieties, with both being used as table olives and in boutique olive oils that are winning awards in tasting contests the world over.

Home to Bell Carter, the nation’s largest and world’s second-largest producer of table olives, as well as oil producers such as Corning Olive Oil and the popular I-5 stop, The Olive Pit, the town comes by its title Olive Capitol of the World honestly. The Olive Pit has even perfected a popular olive oil milkshake to give visitors an unexpected taste of its famous fruit. 4

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September and October usher in olive harvest, with hundreds of workers out handpicking the trees throughout the Corning area. While newer orchards have been planted for mechanized harvest – known by their smaller size and tight plantings – the heritage trees that grow large require the delicacy of a hand harvest.

Crops will be processed for cans found in grocery stores across the country. Others are more selectively brined and jarred with flavors such as garlic and jalapeno, or they’re stuffed with almonds. Others will be prepared for martinis while still others will be pressed into oils, sometimes with infusions such as garlic and citrus. While noted most for culinary use, olive oil has also become a popular ingredient in health and beauty products such as soap and lotions, where it can nourish skin.

Since 1947, Corning has celebrated its olive heritage with an annual festival in October. While public health orders have modified things significantly, the show will go on this year as well. A farmers market, an essential service, will anchor the gathering, and safety measures will be enacted. “We’ll be sure to take every precaution,” says Hale, noting social distancing measures and availability of hand sanitizers and face masks for the event.

While popular activities such as the Kid Zone and car show have been eliminated this year, it was important to the community to hold a farmers market, which is allowable under the state COVID-19 guidelines. “We put it on pause, but we’re bringing it back for this oneday event,” says Hale. “Even though this year everything is a real struggle with COVID-19, we want people to know that their community is still there for them. We want to be unified in a hometown spirit.”

In the early days, the Corning Olive Festival was a fundraiser for Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, which was undertaking construction of a new church and parish hall. It was eventually taken over by the Corning Chamber of Commerce and became an autumn tradition. The history of the crop is recorded and presented at the Corning Museum, which shares a building with the Chamber of Commerce.

Odes to the olive permeate the community in the week proceeding, with a search for a golden olive being a highlight. Hidden by an anonymous community member, clues to the location are offered daily on Facebook, the Chamber website and in the newspaper. “It keeps the community on their toes and out and moving,” Hale says of the heated competition to find the olive.

Then there’s an Olive Drop sponsored by Corning Rotary, where thousands of numbered olive replicas are dropped from a fire truck onto a marked grid, with the olive hitting closest to a target winning the number holder great prizes. “They all come flying out,” Hale says of the popular spectacle.

From milkshakes to roadside attractions, to historical exhibits and games, the town of Corning is eager to share its heritage and pride in the crop that’s kept it going from day one. However you enjoy your olives – pitted and attached to each finger in childhood delight, as a savory salad dressing or dirtying up a martini at happy hour – the people there are happy to share their passion for olives any day of the year, but especially at their annual festival.

Find a tasty recipe using olive oil from Corning on the following page. Wild Grove Garlic-Infused Olive Oil can be found at Enjoy the Store in Redding. • Corning Olive Festival and Farmers Market Saturday, October 10 • 10am-4pm Corning Community Park, 1485 Toomes Ave. www.corningcachamber.org

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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FRESH GARLIC RICOTTA BRUSCHETTA BRUSCHETTA INGREDIENTS: 1 cup diced fresh tomatoes 4 cloves garlic 2 T Wild Grove ascolano extra virgin olive oil Dash fresh thyme Dash salt and pepper WHIPPED RICOTTA INGREDIENTS: 1 cup whole milk ricotta 1/4 cup Wild Grove fresh garlic extra virgin olive oil Dash Wild Grove pink salt 2 T Honey

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DIRECTIONS: Dice tomatoes, garlic and thyme.

Toss all bruschetta ingredients in a bowl, and chill until flavors mix, about 2 hours or overnight.

Add ricotta, extra virgin olive oil, salt and honey to a food processor and whip until fluffy.

Top your favorite baguette slices, toasted if you wish, with a small spoonful of whipped ricotta and fresh bruschetta.

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Olive trees love the North State’s Mediterranean climate – but you can also grow them indoors. These fun trees are happy inside or out, so if you’re looking for a unique houseplant, why not give it a try? Here are some tips to help your indoor olive tree thrive.

WHAT KIND: Since they can reach up to 10 feet even in containers, it’s wise to choose a dwarf variety unless you have high ceilings. They’ll grow to be about six feet tall unless you prune them to be shorter.

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HOW: Olive trees prefer soil that drains easily. Put a couple inches of gravel or other filler on the bottom of the pot and ensure it has drainage holes. The container should leave at least a few inches of space on each side of the root ball so the roots have room to roam. Let the top inch of soil dry out between waterings – they like dry air, so you don’t need to mist them.

BONUS: If you want your new houseplant to give you olives, be sure you buy a fruit-bearing (not an ornamental) variety. You may need to put your tree outside for a few months in order for it to bear fruit.

Check with your favorite local plant shop to learn more tips for giving your indoor olive tree the best start for your home. Happy growing! •

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water feature L A K E A L M A N O R - T H E P E R F E C T N O R C A L R E T R E AT NESTLED IN the pines at the base of the towering Lassen Peak, the manmade 90-foot-deep Lake Almanor draws anyone interested in a place that offers an abundance of outdoor recreation. It’s where people develop fond memories, whether they’re camping, catching a gigantic trout, standing up for the first time while learning to wakeboard or venturing into Lassen Volcanic National Park to hike up a mountain peak overlooking Northern California or drive past boiling mud pots.

Originally inhabited by the Northern Maidu Native American tribe, settlers arrived in 1820. Back then, Lake Almanor was referred to as Big Meadows and it kept that name for the next century. By the late 1800s, hydroelectric power was gaining in popularity and the Great Western Power Company built a 180-foot-tall wall to dam up a

reservoir that gathered rainfall and snowmelt (now much of the land around it is owned by PG&E). When it was finished in 1914, the body of water was renamed Lake Almanor after the lead project coordinator’s three daughters, named Alice, Martha, and Eleanor.

Coincidingly, Lassen Peak became a national monument and a park was created around it, beckoning visitors. Commercial and private development lots on Lake Almanor’s western shore opened up for sale and a family built one of the area’s longest standing establishments, the Plumas Pines Resort, in 1932. It changed hands a few times over the years, but it is currently owned by the Geer family who has managed it since 1999. 4 continued on page 34

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“I’ve heard we’re the longest tenured family,” says Plumas Pines Resort Owner and General Manager Todd Geer, whose father Glenn bought the resort when Todd was 13.

While running a family business can be challenging, he thinks it helped being interested in his dad’s new venture at such a young age. Born and raised in Chico, Todd studied small business and entrepreneurship at Chico State University to get the experience needed to take over the family business.

Since being in the Geers’ control, Plumas Pines Resort has made small upgrades that add up to a lot while keeping its simplistic charm. In the last decade, the owners started managing their own restaurant instead of leasing it out to an outside restaurateur, and they launched an online reservation system to easily book rooms and cabins. They also recently renovated their restrooms to be ADA-compliant.

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“The spirit of this place is strong. Maybe (Lake Almanor) is hidden away for a reason. This is a place that’s truly special,” says Lassen Volcanic National Park Ranger Kevin Sweeney.

“A lot of people say that they’re the nicest bathrooms in Northern California,” Todd says. Future plans include expanding the resort and making improvements to its rooms and cabins, like adding electricity and modernizing room amenities.

However, there haven’t been a whole lot of changes to the Lake Almanor area in general over the years, which is great for the people looking for a quiet mountain retreat away from the hustle and bustle that is common of neighboring cities. “Lake Almanor is the heart of the Shasta Cascade because it’s central to everything around us. The young and old can come and enjoy; there’s an activity for everybody,” Todd adds.

From Memorial Day through Labor Day, places like Plumas Pines Resort help keep surrounding areas like Chester alive by offering accommodations for those who want to stay on the lake or visit Lassen Volcanic National Park, but the best times to visit are in the shoulder seasons, like right now.

“Winter is kind of a ghost town around here. We’re closed April and November (because those are the area’s slowest months); it’s tourism that keeps this place alive. We get the most benefit from people coming up here in the fall. September is the best month to be here because the water’s still warm and the weather is still nice. In October the weather

is a little iffy but hunting season starts and the German Browns (trout) start running,” Todd says.

“We get a lot of people who come up here and are blown away by how much space there is and how affordable the food, drinks and cabins are.

And at Plumas Pines, we’re right here on the water with the best view.

We’re kind of the party spot with total facilities and amenities,” Todd notes. And as the Almanor Recreation and Park District continues to drum up more fun events and connect major hiking trails, Lake Almanor will appeal to more people.

“The spirit of this place is strong. Maybe (Lake Almanor) is hidden away for a reason. This is a place that’s truly special,” says Lassen Volcanic National Park Ranger Kevin Sweeney. • www.plumaspinesresort.com

Kayla Anderson is a freelance writer, marketer and action sports enthusiast who grew up wakeboarding on Lake Shasta and learning to ski at Mt. Lassen. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Chico State University and loves to visit her parents in Redding.

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CHALLENGE

accepted HEATHER GUSTAFSON has climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, run endurance races and climbed Mt. Shasta six times. Yet, there was a night, midway though her team’s trek in Fiji during the Eco-Challenge race, that she thought, “I don’t want to be the drop (out), but I’d be OK if someone else does.”

Team Regulators – Gustafson, captain Steven Bell, Crista Jorgensen and Josh Watkins – were running on little sleep as they approached an eight-kilometer stretch of river navigation. They’d scaled a waterfall at night, arrived on a plateau and trekked through dense jungle to the river. “We decided that everyone was at their limit and to huddle together and sleep,” says Gustafson, a management analyst for the City of Redding.

And that’s the lure of the Eco-Challenge for extreme athletes – the desire to test your physical and mental limits and then push past. The Eco-Challenge, created by Mark Burnett of “Survivor” fame, began in 1995 and ran until 2002 before being brought back by last year and hosted by Bear Grylls for an Amazon Prime 10-episode series.

“We had no idea what we were walking into,” says Bell, a lineman and former Army Ranger. “I think we’d all done similar things, but nothing of that distance or magnitude. There were extreme highs and lows, but, as the captain, I told everyone ‘We’re going to have fun and finish as friends.’”

Sixty-six teams of four from throughout the world raced the 417mile course. They trekked on foot, pedaled on bike and floated on various non-motorized vehicles. They traversed jungles and oceans, rappelled cliffs and navigated waterways using only a map and compass to reach the next checkpoint.

Though Team Regulators didn’t get a lot of face time on the Amazon Prime series, Gustafson said it wasn’t about being a TV star.

“Bear Grylls was at the finish line and he’s one of my idols,” she says.

“We got maybe 10 seconds total. They were focused on the top teams and there were cameras with some of the teams we were with – we were in the picture. We did it for ourselves.” 4

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She says it was Bell who approached the group after seeing something on Facebook. He gathered 36-year-old North State Crossfit owner Jorgensen, 38-year-old Gustafson and 44-year-old Watkins, a profusionist (one who operates the cardiopulmonary bypass machine during cardiac surgery). Jason Hull, an entrepreneur, served as the team’s crew person in charge of ensuring their gear was ready to go at each checkpoint. They produced a video and were eventually accepted for the September 2019 race.

“We figured what the heck,” Gustafson says, echoing Bell that the goals were to finish and still be friends. Both were accomplished, Gustafson and Bell said as Team Regulators finished 39th out of 44 finishers.

To prepare, the group trained for seven months. In addition to normal daily training, they’d paddle down the Sacramento River, navigate in the Lake Tahoe wilderness and even took a four-hour sailing tutorial on the San Francisco Bay. “We climbed Shasta and Lassen in a day,” Gustafson says of herself and Bell doing the double summit in just under 18 hours.

The team shipped out to Fiji on Sept. 4 and six days later began the race.

Bell and Gustafson each said they’re watching the Amazon Prime show – slowly – and there’s a sense of déjà vu seeing the places they’ve trekked. Especially toward the end, where the team was in a race to finish complete the final ocean leg prior to the time cutoff.

Bell recalls being on the ocean less than two miles from the finish. The seas were rough, forcing his crew to take refuge. “The winds and waves were too heavy,” he says. “We’re sitting there and I’m imagining the clock running out.”

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They found shelter on a deserted beach, the glowing torches of the finish visible in the dark Fiji night. “We started to wonder ‘Are we going to be able to finish?’ ” Gustafson says. “We woke up and everything was going against us. The tide was low, the reef was showing. We didn’t know what would happen, but we said a team prayer asking for strength like Samson.”

Bell says once they got into open water – about a mile away from the finish – he knew his team was going to finish. “We had about two miles on an open-ocean kayak in four-foot swells,” he says of waves they hadn’t seen during the race. “I told myself, ‘This is the push, it’s happening or they’re going to have to come rescue us.’ I knew halfway through that we’d finish – that we just completed the Eco-Challenge. That for me was the shining moment.”

Gustafson said it was surreal seeing Grylls at the finish line. “For weeks after, I would dream this isn’t the finish line,” she says.

But for her, Jorgensen and Watkins it was. “Two days after the race, I asked if they wanted to do the next one (scheduled for Patagonia),” Bell says. “They all said, ‘Absolutely not.’”

Still, Bell said it was a lifelong goal and takes pride in knowing Team Regulators finished. “The crazy thing about adventure racing is you can’t be great at everything.

You need the strength of the group,” he says. “And we can say we’re part of a group that has done something 99 percent of the population can never do.” • Aaron Williams is the former sports editor at the Record Searchlight. He has coached youth and high school sports for the past decade and coaches freshman football at Shasta High School. He enjoys spending time golfing or hiking with his girlfriend Michelle and their mastiff, Maui.

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CRAFTING A LEGACY

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T H E E XC E L L E N C E O F M AT T ’ S WO O DWO R K S

WHEN IT CAME TIME to replace things in her new home after the Carr Fire took her old home and everything in it, Mara Copeland knew exactly who to go to for furniture. She called Matt Clark, also known as Matt’s Woodworks, the custom woodworker who had built her late dining room table. This time, however, she didn’t stop at the dining room.

“I really like Matt’s quality, so I got a kitchen table and a coffee table too,” she says.

“He’s an artist, and his work is just beautiful.

He’s fun to work with, throwing ideas back and forth, and he is a genuinely nice guy.”

Over the past six years, Clark has built what started as a self-assigned task for his wife into a national business. He designs, cuts, shapes, assembles and ships custommade furniture all over the country. He speaks fluent “wood-ese,” able to tell you the species of wood he’s selected, its approximate age and the specific reason he’s chosen it for a particular project.4 continued on page 44

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“THERE’S COMMUNICATION AT EVERY SINGLE STEP BETWEEN ME AND MY CLIENT THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS,” HE SAYS. “THAT GIVES US BOTH CONFIDENCE THEY ARE GOING TO GET WHAT THEY WANT.”

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For example, his latest work is a 14-foot headboard, designed to be mounted to the wall above a low-profile bed. “I try to work with what’s grown here, so for this piece I went with Claro walnut. It comes from Chico and up,” he says. “I really like its reds and pinks and orange, and the grain structure is wicked.”

All Clark’s wood works begin on a Mac running computer-assisted drawing software. “I taught myself CAD. It was the best investment I ever made,” he says. He models in 3D a visual proposal based on a client’s description, making changes as needed. “There’s communication at every single step between me and my client throughout the entire process,” he says. “That gives us both confidence they are going to get what they want.”

If mutually agreeable, they can receive more.

“Sometimes when bringing a design to fruition, I see potential for a design addition, something to spice it up,” he says. “I try to give a professional opinion for the work to be as good as it can get. Or it could be a one-of-a-kind design I just think of.”

Mindful he’s pursuing his own creative muse, Clark rarely charges for this extra work.

One-of-a-kind has become Matt’s Woodworks’ watchword, no more evident than in the completion of what he calls “an insane chess set” for a client who wanted the ultimate Man-Who-Has-Everything birthday gift for his brother. Clark teamed with local sculptor Dave Shulz of D.S. Artistry, and for a year they set their minds to the task of casting in bronze a chess set comprised of personal tokens of a man’s lifestyle.

The kings depicted the brother himself, the queens his pet cats – on pedestals, of course. Depending on side of the board, the bishop could be a private jet or an off-road truck, the knight a goat or a tortoise. The rook could be either his house in Los Angeles or the one in Las Vegas.

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Shulz says Clark’s furniture designs “more than complemented” the two tones of metal he cast for the pieces. Clark incorporated metal and wood in the base of the table, designing the board with scalloped edges, and finishing with a stack of matching walnut rings.

“Those are things that separate craftsmen from exceptional craftsmen,” says Shulz. “The attention to detail, the exactness. It’s near perfection.”

Near, perhaps, but Clark doesn’t think any of his projects are perfect. “I don’t think any of them will be, and that’s 100 percent okay with me,” he says. “It’s like they say, strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.”

Clark was born and raised in Redding, and as a young man out of high school he dreamed of the perfect life of a professional baseball player. But after one season at Shasta College, he settled for a life in business. He joined the corporate world and worked in sales and software for 15 years, until the day his wife approached him with a request that changed everything.

She asked if they could buy a table. He looked at what was available out there and thought, I could build her one myself. He didn’t know the first thing about building a table, but he didn’t let that stop him. “I jumped right in,” he says with a laugh. “I got my hands dirty, and I failed a lot.”

He spent a lot of time on YouTube, scheduling nightly sessions while still working for the corporation full time.

He built as he learned, learned as he built. “I had joints split apart. My wood warped because it wasn’t dry. The finish peeled off,” he recalls. “You name it, it’s probably happened to me. But that’s okay. Those failures paved the way to where I am now.”

These hard wood lessons birthed Matt’s Woodworks, crafting furniture for sale in the evenings and weekends while still working in commercial sales full time. In less than five years, he was ready to quit the corporate world and make his business the full-time job.

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“I told myself one day, go for it, because I was in love with being a creative person,” he says. “It fulfilled my dream to do this during the day and still be able to spend time with my wife and two girls.”

Clark knows his hand-crafted, custom works are out of reach financially for many in town, but he makes an extra effort to give them a chance to own furniture made by Matt’s Woodworks anyway. Two years ago, while smoke from the Carr Fire still choked the city, he held a random drawing and gave away a dining table and a coffee table.

He hopes to be able to give something away every year from now on.

“I want to do this whenever I have downtime,” he says.

“It can be a drawing or a donation to a family in need. I want to give back, because it’s cool how giving creates a giving mood in others. From the feedback I got, I found it gives them the mindset to give.”

New homeowner Copeland credits giving as another reason she ordered extra furniture from Matt’s Woodworks. “We try very hard to support local community vendors after getting so much support after the fire,” she says. “We got a lot of support from the community. More than you can imagine.”• Matt’s Woodworks • (530) 515-7009 www.mwwfurniture.com • Find them on Facebook

“ I TOLD MYSELF ONE DAY, GO FOR IT, BECAUSE I WAS IN LOVE WITH BEING A CREATIVE PERSON,” HE SAYS. “IT FULFILLED MY DREAM TO DO THIS DURING THE DAY AND STILL BE ABLE TO SPEND TIME WITH MY WIFE AND TWO GIRLS.” Richard DuPertuis is a Redding grandfather who writes. His stories and photographs have appeared in newspapers, magazines and online. He strives for immortality not by literary recognition, but through diet and exercise. He can be reached at dupertuis@snowcrest.net

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SLADE GILES delivers a simple, yet heartfelt message: If you do anything, invest in your community; if you can be anything, be kind.

The 43-year-old Palo Cedro resident also happens to live that message. In fact, he credits that guiding belief with keeping him alive. To aid in his battle with cancer, he has set the goal of establishing an orphanage in Tanzania. “It’s given me a whole new spirit with life,” he says.

Giles’ penchant for giving back was evident during his undergraduate studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, and later at Touro University California, where he earned a master’s in public health while researching Alzheimer’s disease. Giles says his first dream was to be a doctor: “I always wanted to help people.”

That dream expanded in graduate school. Giles was inspired to change healthcare on a national scale and he decided to pursue a master’s in business administration with an emphasis in enterprise information systems.

That brings him to 2018, the eventful year that saw him both complete Leadership Redding and be named Firefighter of the Year by the Jones Valley Volunteer Fire

Company. The excitement started in July when Giles, who was vacationing in Thailand, learned the devastating Carr Fire had started.

Giles, who was riding an elephant in a jungle when he got the news, spent the next three days in a mad dash back to the states to help his fellow firefighters. “I got in just in time for the ‘fire-nados,’” he says, referring to the cyclones of flames that roared to life when the fire neared the Redding city limits.

Giles continued fighting fires until graduate school started at Chico State University. During his first week in the MBA program, he was diagnosed with cancer and underwent emergency surgery at Mercy Medical Center.

The diagnosis curtailed another of Giles’ ambitious plans: summiting Mt. Kilimanjaro with his friend Frank Kivuvo.

The pair meant to turn the expedition into a fundraiser for children in Tanzania. While Giles began a grueling chemotherapy regimen (seven hours a day, five days a week), Kivuvo and his friends completed the Kilimanjaro climb, using Giles’ cancer battle as inspiration.4

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Challenges did not let up during the winter of 2018. “I lost a lot of people who were important to me and then the cancer metastasized. I needed something to keep me going,” Giles says. Unsure if he’d ever realize his biggest dream – a family of his own – Giles set his sights on leaving a legacy for some of the millions of Tanzanian children forced into manual labor.

Slade’s Cancer Fight Legacy Project, established in 2019, seeks to furnish as many children as possible with shoes and, ultimately, construct an orphanage in Arusha, Tanzania. “I felt that once I was able to fight for other people, it gave me the spirit to fight and go forward,” Giles says.

Giles credits his project with helping his body ward off cancer’s advances. “Cancer can take off when everything is wearing on me.

Having this project and awesome people in my life has given me a positive outlook. It pushed me to get through it.”

While he waits for his planned ascent of the 19,241-foot-tall Kilimanjaro in the summer of 2021, Giles has been busy working on other ideas he hopes will change the world for the better. They include an electronic health records system based on blockchain technology; an app to help people connect with first responders during an emergency; and an idea to revolutionize the way IV machines are made (developed during his countless hours of chemo infusions).

None of which surprises Redding physician Sam Van Kirk, a longtime friend of Giles. “He’s always thinking of ways to help others. His legacy project is a natural extension of his personality,” Van Kirk says. “He’s very good at the connectivity side of technology, getting people to work better together and forming synergistic relationships.”

Giles has mixed action in with his ideas and in July, despite a low hemoglobin count from his chemotherapy, he pushed his way to the top of Mt. Shasta. He says it was an eight-hour hike to get to base camp on the first day and another seven hours to the summit on the next day. “I used every little tiny bit of my body to get to the top. I shed a tear. It was such an emotional experience because I did it, despite the obstacles.”

Those obstacles included breaking his crampons during his descent when he found himself hanging from his ice axe while trying to make repairs and worrying that the 75-mph wind gusts would blow him off the mountain.

Giles made it back to level ground and was able to incorporate elements of his journey into the commencement address he was invited to deliver to Chico State’s master’s graduates. “Start building your community today,” he says. “We’re not guaranteed tomorrow. You just might be the example that people always remember: the person who makes others feel lucky to have in their life.”• To learn about Slade’s Cancer Fight Legacy Project, visit www.gofundme.com/f/slades-cancer-fight-legacy-project

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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DAYS ARE getting shorter, the air a little crisper, and leaves are starting to change. California may not usually be considered a great fall color destination, but the mixed blessing of cold winters and the abundance of oaks, big leaf maples, aspen and dogwood trees makes Siskiyou County’s fall foliage unforgettable. In October and November, Siskiyou is brushed with yellows, roses, oranges and burgundies; exotic (non-native) trees typically peak in the first half of October, while native trees typically peak in the second half of the month. The color is particularly impressive when set against the backdrop of a snow-capped Mt. Shasta.

To explore the best fall foliage that Siskiyou County has to offer, Dyana Kelley of Camp-California recommends that everyone “take a drive to Aspen Grove in the Little Shasta Meadows Botanical Area or enjoy an autumn bike ride along the 24-mile loop through Scott Valley.” Longtime local Mt. Shasta resident and wildflower enthusiast Jane Cohn recommends the easily accessible Foundation Trail in the Gateway Trail System. Just outside of downtown Mt. Shasta, the trail’s intense color comes from the “many dogwoods close together that put on a great show.”4 continued on page 55

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Greenhorn Park • Photo courtesy of Discover Siskiyou

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autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

-Albert Camus

Here are five more ways to explore the best of the region’s fall color.

TAKE A HIKE: An autumn stroll around Lake Siskiyou or the McCloud Reservoir is a perennial go-to. For those seeking a more challenging hike, head to the Kelsey Creek Trailhead out of Fort Jones and hike to Maple Falls. The four-mile journey to the waterfall is lined with golden hues from big leaf maples and is a local favorite. Another trail with bountiful autumn color is along Cabin Creek between Mt. Shasta and McCloud, where the hike along clear waters and tumbling falls makes for a rich and scenic display.

TAKE A BIKE RIDE: The 24-mile loop through Scott Valley is particularly wonderful in the fall, with a mandatory photo stop at the LDS Church in Etna. There, several exotics surrounding a steepled church put on a peak color display in mid-October that rivals any East Coast color. Other scenic autumn mountain bike destinations include Yreka’s Greenhorn Park, where families can explore several miles worth of trails with a stunning show of color.

There’s also the trail from Martin’s Dairy Campground that ascends through an aspen grove up to Ball Mountain, with views of Mt. Shasta and the Shasta and Butte Valleys. This dirt road is also closed to 4WD traffic.

TAKE A SWING: Siskiyou sports several public golf courses, including ones in Weed, Lake Shastina, Tule Lake and Mount Shasta. All courses are worthwhile destinations in their own right, especially in autumn. The Lake Shastina Golf Course features three nine-hole courses.

The Mt. Shasta Resort is particularly stunning during peak season with a 6,035-yard par 70, 18-hole course.

GO FOR A DRIVE: Anywhere along the Klamath River is sure to wow for wildflowers in the spring and serious color in the fall. Plan a day drive along Highway 96 to explore its dazzling biodiversity. Or take a drive out to Aspen Grove in Little Shasta Meadows Botanical Area, where the beautiful white-barked aspens turn into an arena of shimmering gold, orange and yellow. To reach it, take Yreka Ager road to Ager Road to York Road and follow it to what the locals call Willow Creek Mountain. It’s paved the whole way to the Grove – just make sure to go before the first snowfall.

EXPLORE THE RIVERS: Autumn is one of the best times to visit a river because the riparian corridors, or the strips of vegetation that occur along a river, generally support a variety of deciduous trees and thus pleasing fall colors. Siskiyou County is no exception. One such easy-to-reach place is on the Upper Sacramento at the Cantara Loop with easy access from Downtown Dunsmuir. Nearby and worthy of a day’s exploration in its own right is the McCloud River. Both the scenic McCloud Falls Trail as well as the area below McCloud Falls are simply breathtaking, with spent grasses and wind-swept oaks marking the way. •

Megan Peterson is a Chico native who lives in Etna. For nearly two decades she’s written, produced and pitched content for a variety of television networks, including the Travel Channel, National Geographic and Discovery. She works at Discover Siskiyou and considers Siskiyou her muse.

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T H E G H O S T LY L E G E N D O F S U M M I T L A K E JUST EAST OF Interstate 5 south of Vista Drive in Weed sits an isolated marshy patch of ground filled with weeds, cottonwoods and willows. While it might not look like much to the naked eye, a closer inspection reveals some evidence of a shoreline – and the ghostly legacy of Summit Lake.

Summit Lake was once a hub of activity. In the 19th century, it was one of the earliest mill sites in the area, in addition to providing ice for the city of Weed. In the winter days before electricity, Abner Weed (founder of the town of Weed) would send his employees to cut huge chunks of ice from the lake and bring them back to a storage house. There, the ice was covered and stored with a heavy layer of sawdust to prevent melting. When summer came around, ice was distributed to stores and saloons in town. Even in the 20th century, some old-timers remember Summit Lake as a great place to hang out, swim and fish.

“One of my board members said that through the 1960s and 1970s, he and his friends would go out there in the wintertime to ice skate and fish in the summertime. That means that in the early ‘70s, the lake was still pretty big,” explains Jim Taylor, director of the Weed Historic Lumbertown Museum. Four decades later, there’s a lingering question: Why did the lake vanish?

A disappearing lake might seem far-fetched, but human activity around the world has caused a number of lakes to

disappear in the last few decades – some, like Lake Beloye in Central Russia, even overnight. The theories behind Summit Lake’s disappearance vary. “Harold, the excurator of the museum, told me that he’d heard it was a lava tube that opened up when either rerouting the railroad or when Interstate 5 came through,” Taylor says.

Weighing those two possibilities, Taylor came to his own conclusion. “I think Interstate 5 is too far to the west of Summit Lake to have any dealings with it. The railroad theory, however, makes sense because it’s pretty close to the southeast side of the lake, so it could have reasonably caused the demise of the lake.”

If rerouting the railroad was the initial cause, it hardly happened overnight, taking 50 or more years to become the marsh it is today. “Around 1926, Southern Pacific decided to relocate the rail line that came up from the south. As they were dynamiting the southeast side of Summit Lake, it’s possible they closed off the natural spring that fed the lake. Consequently, only a little bit of water was able to come through the spring, so the lake was fed by rain and snow runoff in the spring. Since we’ve had such horrible droughts recently, there’s been nothing to help replenish it.”

Physical disappearance is not the only mystery surrounding Summit Lake. Legends of ghosts haunting4

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only adds to the elusive beauty of the lake that remains an off-the-beaten-track place to explore with an epic view of Mt. Shasta. It’s also a nod to the colorful history of Weed that’s on display during the summer months and by appointment at the Weed Museum. •.

To get to Summit Lake, take the E. Vista Drive exit in Weed and head south on Black Butte Drive for about a mile.

It’s a short hike into the lake.

Weed Historic Lumbertown Museum 303 Gilman Ave., Weed • (530) 938-0550 Call ahead for times; generally open Memorial through Labor Day and by appointment

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She works at Discover Siskiyou and considers Siskiyou her muse.

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its shores are still recounted today. “There’s all kinds of myths and legends,” Taylor says. “Supposedly at night, when kids are out there partying, there’s a ghost that comes out and scares them off. I’m too old to go out there at night now, but I’ve heard rumors.” The most famous ghost is named Fayleen, an alleged homecoming queen who supposedly disappeared after going ice skating with friends. Some versions of the story say she fell through the ice; others say she was ice skating with her boyfriend when she disappeared. Taylor notes, “I went through everything we’ve got here at the museum, and I find no record of anybody other than a young boy who drowned at the mill site. But his body was recovered. Hers never was.” Siskiyou County Scene writer Emilie Frank echoes Taylor’s doubts, describing that “while this ghost story has circulated for decades, no one seems to know the date” when it happened.

These days, local lore describes Fayleen’s mischievous tricks, everything from stalling out car engines to attempting to lure unsuspecting visitors into the murky pond as a cure for her eternal loneliness. But the mystery

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Explore winding paths leading though 10 acres of artfully illuminated and immersive displays exhibiting world-class design.

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Enjoy cheerful amenities and community spaces throughout the gardens, including holiday-themed drinks, gifts, and food.

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A New Way To School C A L I FO R N I A A DV E N T U R E AC A D E M Y WHAT DO YOU DO when you feel the public school system may not be the best choice for your child in this new age? What if you want to take back some control of what your children are learning, and have a say in the matter of how your kids are being taught?

And what if you happen to live in a part of California that has incredible outdoor recreation in all directions? You start your own adventure school, of course.

Being surrounded by some of the best outdoor adventures in the United States, Redding locals Ryan Spitz and Nigel Skeet decided to blend homeschooling with outdoor adventures and pursue the possibility of the adventure activities merging with curriculum, so kids are in school but might not realize it.

They did a little community outreach to see if there would be any interest from other parents and lo and behold, there were many.

At the same time, they sought out expert advice from former school superintendent Bryan Caples, the leadership at Simpson University and Providence International. All input was positive, and within a few weeks, California Adventure Academy was born.

They partnered with Kevin Crye of Ninja Coalition in Redding and turned the top floor of the Ninja Coalition gym into the California Adventure Academy headquarters and learning center. To have the “school� be inside the Ninja gym lends itself to the notion of the kids being in school but not knowing it.4 continued on page 64

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As the basic foundation of California Adventure Academy began to take shape, a bigger question arose: What if we started completely from scratch with regards to education? What do we want our children to learn, and, more importantly, how do we want them to face the world when they are done with high school?

“The end goal is for our kids to be forever curious, play well with others and be great problem solvers in the world, not test takers,” Skeet says. “If we can get them to figure out how to climb a mountain all the way to the top, by themselves and with a team, then we can get them to climb and conquer all the other mountains in their life.”

Spitz and Skeet set out to build the Adventure curriculum, identified Oakmeadow as their preferred homeschool curriculum and partnered with Aaron Hayes of Catalyst Mentors to help develop a life-skills track for students.

The California Adventure Academy is now live and parents have two choices in signing their kids up, Adventure Only or All-In Homeschool + Adventure.

The adventure track consists of team building, wilderness survival, orienteering and navigation, ecofarming, how to build a shelter, fishing, rock climbing, kayaking, archery, equestrian and more. The adventure track also includes Ninja training at Ninja Coalition.

Adding the homeschool component gets the kids tutor days at the learning center, where they brush up on their curriculum and learn life skills like financial wellness and critical thinking, with tutors and adventure guides who can help create understanding of subjects by using realworld examples that the kids are exposed to at the Academy. For example, learning how to kayak also means students are learning about math, science and biology.

The transition into becoming a full-fledged private school is underway, and if local schools are required to shut down, a fallback model has been created to minimize life interruptions for students. A Humboldt County group is slated to begin in 2021. • www.CaliforniaAdventureAcademy.com

Nigel Skeet is originally from England. He moved to Redding 11 years ago after living in Los Angeles for 25 years. As a creative partner with the firm U! Creative and with an extensive background in photography and marketing, he is committed to elevating the global presence of Northern California.

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In the uncertainty that is the year 2020, bars and restaurants were closed, opened for take out/delivery, and then closed again. Finally, a light at the end of the tunnel, as most all bars and restaurants have reopened completely in downtown Redding! I had beer with KC Clapsaddle of Shameless O’Leery’s Irish Pub since reopening and he said, “It’s just great to see a little normal downtown again with all the people walking around enjoying themselves.”

Are we completely out of the woods? Not yet. We ask patrons to follow businesses guidelines to ensure they can stay open. Some bars like The Dip, who we all know for great live music, won’t be hosting shows as of print time, but I’m sure they’ll be back in the swing of things soon. The buzz around downtown has picked back up as more parking is available, businesses are reopened, dine-in eating & drinking is available, DASH downtown transit is running, and new construction projects are nearing completion. For a full list of downtown businesses and information visit www.vivadowntownredding.org/businesses and www.vivadowntownredding.org/covid-19-relief for COVID-19 updates.

Dandelion carries not only high-quality clothing and accessories, but carefully tailors them to the local market, geared to local tastes and the local climate. To match Redding’s mild winters, they stock lighter-weight winter coats. As fall’s chill turns into winter, customers seek out the cubbyholes nestled with socks and scarves. The shop is filled with an eclectic mix of merchandise and unique gift items such as scented candles, lotions, soaps, jewelry and bags. With a variety of sizes and brands, there is something for everyone. It’s a lovely sight during the holidays with its themed Christmas trees filled with treasures. Ornaments, garlands, table toppings and stocking stuffers are for sale during the holiday season. Dandelion is a leading dealer for the popular Brighton Chris Forste and Angie Harnden jewelry and accessories.

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DOWNTOWN BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Fratelli’s Pizza Parlor Local brothers Aaron and Brandon Smith created a family-friendly pizza parlor in downtown Redding. They opened in late 2017 in Foundry Square on California Street. Fratelli’s, which is Italian for brothers, is decked out in ‘80s decor, housing pinball and arcade games, along with delicious food that everyone will enjoy. The pizza parlor has been serving up delicious New York style pizza, mouth watering garlic knots, tasty hot wings, soups, salads and more. They also showcase local art and, once they are able to, they plan to bring back live music and open mic night. Curbside service is available.

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BIDWELL PARK IN THE FALL Lori Mallory Eckhart grew up in Paradise until her nursing education took her to Southern California. She moved to Chico in 1990, and worked in surgery at Enloe Medical Center. Now retired, photography has become her passion. As her husband Eric says, their travels are always photo-centered. Find more of Lori’s work on Instagram @eckhart3235.

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ | BY LANA GRANFORS | PHOTO: MELINDA HUNTER

LE TESTIMONY ORGANIC SOUTHWESTERN PASTA SALAD

DO YOU HAVE A RECIPE YOU’D LIKE LANA OR MACI TO MAKE? Please submit it to lana@enjoymagazine.net

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Thanks to the chefs at Le Testimony in Redding for sharing the secret to this lovely salad, which can be served as a side dish or stand on its own. Use all organic ingredients for best results. Enjoy

INGREDIENTS:

1 17-oz. package organic penne pasta

1 15-oz. can black beans, rinsed

1 15-oz. can corn, or fresh, rinsed

5 Roma tomatoes (seeded and diced)

½ cup diced red onion

¾ cup fresh cilantro leaves DRESSING INGREDIENTS:

3 fresh squeezed limes 1 ½ tsp. chili powder

½ tsp. ground cumin

2 tsp. pink Himalayan salt

½ cup organic maple syrup

¼ tsp. black pepper

1 small clove of garlic, finely minced

½ cup cold pressed organic olive oil

DIRECTIONS: STEP 1: Cook pasta until al dente. Rinse and set aside in mixing bowl.

STEP 2: Add rinsed corn, black beans, seeded diced Roma tomatoes, red onion and trimmed cilantro.

STEP 3: In a separate bowl, add lime juice, maple syrup, olive oil, cumin, salt, black pepper, chili powder and garlic. Whisk together well.

STEP 4: Pour over pasta and toss together. Chill for 30 – 40 minutes before serving.

STEP 5: Remix and serve on a bed of baby greens.

Add salt and pepper to taste.

STEP 6: A fresh slice of organic avocado, grated cheddar cheese or chicken would make nice additions.

Lana Granfors enjoys traveling, gardening, cooking and spending time with her friends and family– especially her grandchildren, Jillian and Garet.

SERVES: 8-10

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GIVING BACK | BY EMILY MIRANDA

≈ Access to Hope ≈ C H I L D R E N ’ S L E G AC Y C E N T E R

THEY OFFER SAFETY, peace and hope to all who enter their doors. The Children’s Legacy Center is Shasta County’s model of a Children’s Advocacy Center, established to ensure justice for abused, neglected and trafficked children.

Such centers have been proven to increase the rate of prosecutions and hold positive impact on the long-term success of the children involved.

In Shasta County, there is no greater need then ensuring a traumatized child is provided the highest level of care and support. The current legal process often requires abused children to retell their story several times to several individuals after the initial report of abuse. Once child welfare or law enforcement begins their investigation, the District Attorney gets involved. The child can be expected to repeat their story at each encounter, and share it again in court if the case is brought to trial. While this is intrinsic to ensure the safety of the child, the process is overwhelming and stressful for an already traumatized child, and can hinder the child’s road to healing.

This is why any child in Shasta County who is sexually or physically abused, witnesses a physical or violent crime, is severely neglected or trafficked will come to the Children’s Legacy Center to receive their forensic interview, non-acute medical exam, advocacy support, housing (if needed) and therapy services.

The center offers an alternative interview process that allows children to bypass the repetitive routine of re-sharing their story. The forensic interview is meant to elicit detailed information about events that the child may have witnessed or experienced. These interviews are captured by discreetly placed cameras.

The forensic interviewer wears a listening device during the interview to communicate with colleagues watching the interview from a separate room. The separate room consists of representatives from the District Attorney’s Office, child welfare, law enforcement, a physician and a child or family advocate. Having all of them present allows each to feed any additional questions to the interviewer, eliminating the need for repeat interviews. This process provides a safe space where children are supported, known and provided with the help they need to restore their health and well-being.

With the continued support of families, a dedicated team and the community, the Children’s Legacy Center is committed to advocate for each child, ensuring each is given access to the hope and healing they need to thrive for generations to come. • www.childrenslegacycenter.org

Emily J. Miranda is a freelance writer, designer, and self taught artist. She is a graduate of Simpson University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in communication with an emphasis on business and marketing. In her free time she enjoys writing, painting, sewing, and any projects involving creative insight.

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