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MAY Artist

59 | GRAND SCALE

Country Farm Trail Bella Vista, Palo Cedro

BEAUTY

66 | view point

Stay Safe in the Sun

BUSINESS 49 | MINITEARS OF JOY

Painting a Picture of Mountain Lakes

OUT ON THE TOWN 77 | LET’s play ball Redding Community Baseball Field Fundraiser

Cruising Around With Mini Teardrop Trailers

PROFILE

53 | ON THE STEEP SIDE

37 | BeHooved

Find the Perfect Tea at Mt. Shasta’s Sereni-Tea

COMMUNITY Tracy & Joshua Hedge Photo by Kara Stewart

31 | FARM FRESH

Dunsmuir Artist Finley Fryer

67 | LET THE SUN SHINE

ON THE COVER

NATURE HIKE

29 | MAKING A Change A Worthy Cause: Genocide No More

34 | Rip roarin’

Farrier Ryan Garbe

64 | Home Delivery Nurse, Midwife and Professional Comforter, Nora McNeill

RECREATION

Redding’s Asphalt Cowboys

17 | CATCHING ON

EDITORS’ PICKS

21 | ON BELAY

Fly Shop Kids’ FishCamp

45 | Humboldt COUNTY

Rock Climbing With Epicmasters

Going Coastal

55 | The Wheel Deal

ENJOY THE VIEW

Forty Years of the Shasta Wheelmen

75 | Goodbye rain

IN EVERY ISSUE

By Brian Rueb

69 | Top 10

EVENTS

Yee Haa! Favorite Things About Rodeo Week

23 | SLICE OF HEAVEN

Great Places to Eat in the North State

Fashionably Healthy’s Sister Pat Manoli

42 | WEAVING A LIFE

72 | DINING GUIDE 73 | WHAT’S COOKIN’

The 8th Annual Fiber on the Foot in Red Bluff

May Recipes: Bon Appétit With French-Inspired Recipes

INTEREST

79 | Calendar of Events

26 | RUN, Honey, Run The History Behind Chico’s Honey Run Bridge

MUSIC

What’s Happening in the North State

85 | Giving Back Behind the Badge: Operation Blue Birthday Delivers More Than Gifts

36 | SUMMER LOVE Sixteen-Year-Old Summer Schappell Rocks Country Music May 2010 Enjoy 8

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Story: Gary VanDeWalker

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makingmemories This is the time of year when it’s easy to remember why we fell in love with our great North State. The mountains still carry a blanket of snow, yet wildflowers create a kaleidoscope of colors everywhere you turn.

It’s all about Mom this month, so consider taking your mother (or grandmother, sister, daughter or girlfriend) up the road to Sereni-tea in Mount Shasta. Proprietor Daniela Bose got a glimpse of the majestic mountain and knew it was the perfect spot to open a tea shop. The idea? Her mom’s, of course.

Yvonne Mazzotta publisher Michelle Adams publisher Ronda Ball managing editor Matt Briner art director Amy Holtzen graphic designer Kerri Regan copy editor James Mazzotta advertising sales representative/ photography/new business developer Britanie Stratton agency account manager Michael O’Brien advertising sales representative Casey Beck advertising sales representative

Then, meet the moms who founded Spouses Behind the Badge, a nonprofit group that spreads birthday magic to youngsters in the midst of some tough times. “Operation Blue Birthday” helps build trust between these children and local law enforcement officers.

Meanwhile, Nora McNeill has made a living out of helping moms bring their babies into the world. The registered nurse and licensed midwife has helped deliver more than 900 babies in the past 35 years by supporting women “emotionally, physically, spiritually.”

It’s also a perfect time to get outdoors, as the mercury hasn’t yet crept up to headlinegrabbing levels. Adrenaline junkies might enjoy joining Epicmasters, one of the North State’s few rock climbing groups. Or tune up your bicycle and sign up for the Shasta Wheelmen’s 40th annual Jamboree Century, where an estimated 400 riders will ride between 10 and 100 miles from the Sundial Bridge. You might even end up alongside 73-year-old Russ Azevedo of Redding, who rode his bike 10,000 miles last year. Inspired yet?

Perhaps you prefer a motor attached to your wheels. Check out Kurt Bowden’s diminutive “teardrop trailers,” designed to fit behind Mini Coopers. Their fine cabinetry and stylish touches make them a tres chic way to travel. “There’s no more planning a camping trip,” Bowden says. “The teardrop has everything already in it. It can be a Friday evening and I’ll say, ‘Let’s go to the coast,’ and we can just take off.”

If you heed that call and end up in Humboldt County, we’ve got some ideas for exploring this densely forested, mountainous, rural county that hugs the Pacific coastline.

Waking up to a cloak of fog under a centuries-old redwood will cure what ails you. We’ll share some of our favorite places to grab a bite, check out some art or just watch the waves crash on the shore.

Don’t forget to check out the always-entertaining Redding Rodeo Week activities.

You can enter your kids and their beloved critters in the Kiddie Pet Parade, devour flapjacks in Roaring Gulch with 10,000 of our neighbors, watch the Rodeo Parade, and try to unmask the Lone Stranger and find the Loot. Eight days of activities help build the excitement for the main event, which draws bulls, broncs and plenty of cowboys and cowgirls to the rodeo grounds.

Saddle up, and enjoy!

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Kerri Regan: Kerri 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 young children.

Gary VanDeWalker: Gary grew up in Mt. Shasta, 12 years ago returning from the San Diego area with his wife Monica. Together they raise their three boys and manage the Narnia Study Center.

A Ph.D. in philosophy, Gary is also an adjunct professor for Simpson University.

Sandie Tillery: A country girl recently transplanted into city life, Sandie writes about the North State from 35 years of personal experience exploring it from corner to corner with husband John, their three grown children and four grandsons. She loves interviewing the amazing people who live here and telling their stories.

Gwen Lawler-Tough: Gwen has the Irish love of telling stories. She grew up in the Midwest and has a Bachelors degree in English Literature. She and her husband Rich moved to Redding 10 years ago from the Bay Area. She is most proud of raising two wonderful sons, Doug and Dan.

Melissa Gulden: Melissa returned to Redding three years ago, just in time for Enjoy! She has a master’s degree in English and a B.A. in journalism.

She is a teacher at University Preparatory School and a member of The Dance Project, as well as a certified MAC makeup artist.

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

Currently working part time at the City of Redding’s Visitor Bureau, she enjoys promoting attractions, points of interest and cultural aspects of our community.

Teresa Wilson: Teresa recently returned to Redding after a two year hiatus to Sacramento. Originally from the Bay Area, Teresa moved to Redding in 2001. She is a freelance writer and photographer who enjoys exploring the North State with her three beautiful daughters. Teresa is pursuing a degree in communications and working on her first novel.

Jon Lewis: Jon spent 23 years in journalism and worked at newspapers in Woodland, Davis, Vacaville and Redding. He now works in marketing and development for public television station KIXE and continues to write on a freelance basis.

Joshua Corbelli: With a B.A. in English Literature from UC Santa Barbara, Josh returned to Redding to pursue his true passion: writing. He’s studied abroad, served as a firefighter, retail manager, pizza guy, ticket-office assistant, caterer and too much more to name. He likes to learn, but don’t tell anybody.

Jim Dyar: Jim is a contributing writer for Food For Thought: A News Cafe (www.anewscafe.com) and a former arts and entertainment editor at the Record Searchlight. He’s also a musician and a fan of vehicles with two wheels.

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Melissa Mendonca: Melissa is passionate about adding stamps to her passport and just as enthusiastic about her hometown of Red Bluff.

A graduate of San Francisco State and Tulane universities, she believes in mentoring and service to create communities everyone can enjoy. Her favorite words are rebar, wanderlust and change.

Kallie Markle: A native and mostly lifelong Redding resident, Kallie earned B.A.s in literature and theology from Point Loma Nazarene University, which led to a marketing career with a splash of freelance writing for effect. She and Mr. Perfect bought the strangest house they could find in Redding and enjoy life alongside their diabolical cat and unassuming dog.

Kimberly Carlson: Kimberly Carlson gave her professional life to writing while reading Kate Chopin’s The Awakening on the lawn of her university flat in Nashville, Tennessee. Years later back in her hometown of Redding, she is still writing (still reading), usually while her son and daughter sleep.

Tom Carlson: Tom loves his family his friends and his God. He enjoys the outdoors, likes fishing and loves children. He likes the Golden Rule and loves his Golden Retriever. Tom likes black berry picking and wake boarding. He’s run a marathon and loves hunting and rock climbing and Destiny and Madelyn.

Brian Rueb: Brian is an award winning Northern California landscape and wildlife photographer.

When he is not out photographing or teaching workshops at The Aperture Academy (www.apertureacademy.com) he is busy planning a 65-day trek through Iceland this summer, and spending time with his wife and two boys.

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Recreation

Story: Kallie Markle

Photos: Michael Caranci

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Your kids already love catching bugs, playing in the water and tying knots in any string, shoelace or knitting yarn available, so why not channel all that energy (and get a week to yourself !) by sending them to FishCamp?

FishCamp is a fun, outdoor week of hiking, games and fly fishing instruction designed to teach 10- to 15-year-olds everything they’ll need to know to enjoy a healthy, lifelong hobby. Campers stay at the beautiful Antelope Creek Ranch, owned and operated by The Fly Shop. There are three kids’ FishCamps every summer, wherein campers learn fly tying, knots, basic entomology and what fish eat, reading the water, safe wading techniques, catch and release, leaveno-trace and related skills. There are classic camp requisites, too: contests, games and campfire stories such as the playfully ominous “Legend of the Man in Waders.”

“The whole premise behind FishCamp is to welcome new generations to the joys of fly fishing and the outdoors,” explains FishCamp Director Michael Caranci. “During the week we learn as much as we can about fly fishing and enjoy being outside.” All equipment is provided, and campers needn’t have prior experience.

Caranci, ever the teacher, believes “inexperienced campers are perfect because they don’t have any bad habits yet.”

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before moving to the 328-acre Antelope Creek Ranch, northeast of Mt. Shasta. For Caranci, that there are no rattlesnakes, poison oak or mountain lions means campers are free to safely focus on scouring the creek for the best bug bait and perfecting their cast.

The ranch provides more than just scenery: there are fish in abundance, so campers triumph from careful application of their counselors’ instruction. “We’ve had numerous kids whose first fish taped out at 30 inches or more,” Caranci explains. “That’s a benchmark that some people try to reach their whole lives.” For perspective, consider the excitement of catching a two-and-a-halffoot-long fish – maybe within hours of learning how to cast – when you’re only about four-and-a-half feet tall yourself. It’s not hard to understand why Caranci and his staff love what they do. “The best part is seeing the smiles on the kids’ faces when they make a good cast or catch a fish. Some of these kids never get outside the city, so for them to come up and spend a week in a wilderness environment and enjoy that… watching them look at the stars up there… it’s just amazing. That’s the reward, their reactions.”

FishCamp is a foolproof experience for all involved. There have been few alterations from the formula established 13 years ago, and the only significant change has been positive: the ever-increasing amount of female campers. “There have even been camps in (recent)

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summers where we’ve had more girls than boys,” Caranci recalls. “It’s getting really popular among young ladies.”

Caranci’s staff don’t want campers to get lost in a crowd, so camps max out at 16 kids per week to guarantee a one-to-four ratio of instructors to students.

“If we were to expand anything it would be our scholarship program,” Caranci says. “We do a dozen or more every year and that’s just so important.” Annually, 25 percent of campers attend FishCamp on scholarship, which amounts to $9,000 in donations. Scholarship opportunities come through local fly fishing clubs, such as the Shasta Trinity Fly Fishers and the Shasta Mayflies, and national clubs like the Golden West Women Flyfishers. The Fly Shop hosts several scholarships each year in conjunction with the Fly Fishing & Tying Journal and several individuals donate funds. “We’re constantly looking for more sponsors,” Caranci explains.

FishCamp also receives product donations from individuals and companies within the fly fishing industry, which allows them to give away choice prizes. Caranci has often been able to gift valuable rods and reels to campers.

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For interested anglers outside the 10- to 15-year-old age range, The Fly Shop offers family camps and welcomes all varieties of families.

“Every combination: mothers and sons, grandma and grandpa, cousins and uncles – we’ve seen it all,” recalls Caranci. There is also a week of advanced camp for kids who have already mastered the basics.

Sure, your kids might come back from camp telling you more than you ever wanted to know about what makes certain bugs so tasty, but if the payoff is their newfound hobby and love of the outdoors, it’s worth it. Think of it this way: you helped them learn to fly. •

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onbelay ROCK CLIMBING WITH Jim Smith was afraid of heights. Even after scuba-diving excursions and some 40 parachuting jumps (out of a plane!), being up high still brought him concern. But rock climbing was something Smith had always wanted to do, so when he saw an ad for the Epicmasters rock climbing group a few years back, he jumped on the opportunity – though he was initially met with some reserve.

“I remember the first time Ricky had me out there, up on that rock, it was intimidating; I was scared to death of heights. But he started up the hill, and I figured I should follow. Near the top I thought, if I broke down and started to cry, would he let me go back and wait in the car?” says Smith, 68.

But such was not the case. Smith continued to trudge forward, and after about a year he no longer felt short of breath looking over a 1,000-foot drop. Founded four years ago by Rick Miller, Epicmasters is one of very few known rock climbing groups in the Redding area. Miller started climbing when he was in the Boy Scouts in Southern California. “I tend to focus on lead climbing; there aren’t a lot of places that teach you how to lead right off the bat,” Miller says.

Often considered a thrill-seeker's sport, rock climbing can be more dangerous than traditional sports like baseball or basketball.

But group founder and longtime climber Rick Miller has been climbing for 35 years, and the biggest injury he’s seen is a twisted ankle which, considering his aggressive teaching method, seems pretty mellow.

Lead climbing is inherently less safe than following. The lead climber is the furthest up the route, and doesn’t have the security

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of clipping into bolts like those below him. Why would anybody want to do such a thing? “I get bored if I’m not doing something that challenges me,” says Smith.

“Some people consider this risky behavior.

It’s not. The only thing I ever got hurt from was my bad diet,” he jokes. What was once referred to as Hidden Cliff, just east of Shingletown, is now dubbed Cardiac Cliff – and is named in honor of Smith, who had his first heart attack while climbing the cliff a few years ago. He also survived another attack about a year ago while climbing in the Clear Creek area.

Because it is harder to learn and a bit riskier, Miller says most people learn to lead by going out with other people and learning the craft after they’ve learned how to follow. Problem is, Miller says, there isn’t a centralized point of interest locally. Head down south to Joshua Tree National Park and you’ll find thousands of climbers scaling the walls. Yet if you head to one of the more popular spots in this area (Miller likes to frequent Castle Crags State Park and Lassen National Park) in the middle of summer, you might not see another climber around.

Epicmasters is a www.meetup.com group. The site’s been around for about four years and now has 58 climbers as members. Some are in their 60s; some are as young as 8. “Kids usually do OK. The problem with kids is they don’t have much fear going up. Coming down, you almost have to talk them through,” says Miller. But interest locally is growing, which is what Miller hoped for. “We don’t charge.

I just like to get people out on the rocks. Sometimes it’s a selfish attitude

and I end up finding a climbing partner,” he jokes.

The group climbs most weekends, weather permitting. Email kid9349624@yahoo. com or call (530) 247-3908 for more information.

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The theme: Fashionably Healthy.

The location: Rolling Hills Casino in Corning. The time: May 6 from noon to 8:30 pm.

For Manoli, this wellness extravaganza is an opportunity to focus her work directly on the mission of the Sisters of Mercy, who place special emphasis on the condition of women and their children. “I want women to start taking control of their lives in a good way,” she says. “I want to empower women to understand that they have choices and don’t have to be victims to a social standard.”

This party-with-a-purpose is designed for fun. A full lineup of activities from cooking demonstrations to a mini farmers market to skin care to exercises to health testing will be offered under a backdrop of beauty. Local florists have been challenged to create for the theme and will have their work on display throughout the venue.

“Women can expect to find something that applies to their lifestyle that they can incorporate into healthy habits,” says Manoli. She emphasizes that the party is designed for all women in all stages of health. The event is developed in light of Manoli’s work as Senior Director of Mission Integration at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Red Bluff.

She has seen enough at the hospital to know that “women are always the caretakers. They never pay enough attention to themselves to keep themselves healthy.” Lack of health insurance forces many women to seek hospital treatment only after a condition has become critical. She hopes that through the Fashionably Healthy party, women will begin to focus more consciously on prevention and wellness, and “celebrate who they are.”

The event will also reveal the winner of the “Waisting Away” Challenge sponsored by St. Elizabeth Hospital, Rolling Hills and the Physical Therapy and Wellness Center at Tehama Family Fitness.

Employees of each sponsor applied to the challenge, and one from each has been chosen to participate in this intense exercise, nutritional counseling and Weight Watchers program challenge. Contestants have been participating since February. The winner will receive a complete makeover, including new clothes.

Manoli moved to the North State in 1976 at age 31 and worked at Mercy Medical Center in Redding as a laboratory technician. In 1990, she found a calling with the Sisters of Mercy. She admits that the story of a woman entering religious life at a later age may not sound typical, but then, neither was the life of Catherine McAuley, founder of the Sisters of Mercy. After years of religious instruction, including a Masters in Theology from Loyola University in St. Louis, Sister Pat returned to the North State.

Kristin Behrens, director of marketing at St. Elizabeth, adds, “Sister Pat is truly a visionary and creative force behind the need to educate and strengthen awareness among women regarding their health and well being.”

Good health is always fashionable, and there’s no better way to start yourself on a road to wellness than to find support from others. So grab a girlfriend and join the fun. • Fashionably Healthy • Rolling Hills Casino 2655 Barham Ave, Corning • May 6 • Noon to 8:30 pm Entrance fee: $15 •www.redbluff.mercy.org

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Those seeking a break from the hurried pace of life and the often desperate ”make it or break it” attitude of the culture should look to Chico and go under cover. The Honey Run Bridge, stretching across Butte Creek Canyon just six miles east of Chico, boasts a place on the National Register of Historic Places and has an impressive following of fiercely loyal fans. Tucked in among the bluffs and flanked by restful creek shores, it’s the perfect place to slow down and appreciate some perspective.

The now-treasured getaway spot began as a key element of infrastructure. After the discovery of gold in Butte County, roads and bridges became a pressing need, and a route from Butte Creek Canyon to Paradise Ridge was required. A road was constructed in 1884, but travelers still had to ford Butte Creek – a feat that often could only be accomplished in the summer when the water ran peacefully. The Butte County Board of Supervisors began seeking bids for a bridge to span the canyon and, from the seven submitted in 1886, they granted the contract to San Francisco’s American Bridge Co. The 18-foot-wide, 1,500-pound-capacity wooden bridge was to be reinforced with steel cables and would cost $4,295 to build. By contrast, Redding’s Cypress Avenue Bridge is a six-lane, seismically sound conduit that accommodates more than 50,000 vehicles daily, and is currently being replaced for $61,846,711.

According to the Colman Museum, one of many sources for all things Honey Run, “the bridge was built in three spans of 30 feet, 130 feet and 80 feet to a total of 240 feet. (Construction Superintendent) George Miller reported that the bridge had been completed on January 3, 1887.” The Honey Run Bridge became an integral connection for Gold Rush settlers traveling between Chico and Paradise, saving seven miles of travel, and, as a result, winning the appreciation of the community that still cherishes it today. In 1901, Miller determined the bridge’s exposure to the elements was causing structural decay and recommended adding the peaked covering that now allows the bridge to claim the title of the only three-level covered bridge left in the United States.

Originally, the road and bridge were both called Carr Hill, but, as it often does, legend intervened. At some point, the Carr Hill Bridge became known as the Honey Run Bridge. If we’re to believe the (conflicting) lore, two sweethearts picnicking on the shore of the creek were greeted by a hungry bear (or a swarm of bees), when the chivalrous young man leapt up and fled, admonishing his dear, leftbehind lady to “run, honey! Run!” The next 64 years were less exciting for the bridge, if you don’t count the turn of the century and the advent of automobiles in exchange for wagons. Then, on April 12, 1965, Richard Healless,

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driving without a license, crashed his friend’s panel truck through the side of the bridge and onto the shore below, destroying an 80foot span in the process. Plans were formed to demolish the bridge, but, according to an Enterprise-Record news clipping preserved at the Colman Museum, “Instant reaction to the threat of removal or destruction of the historic Honey Run Bridge (was) manifested by scores of citizens.” That zeal became embodied as the Honey Run Bridge Association, which immediately set to work raising the money needed to restore and preserve the bridge. As both a sign of the times and a lesson in inflation, the restoration would cost $20,000, nearly five times the cost of the 1886 construction.

Several community groups aided the association’s efforts. Among the philanthropic helpers: the members of the Paradise Garden Club, who separated and trimmed 50,000 Betty Crocker coupons to mail to General Mills in return for $300. The association soon found a

more successful, albeit sticky, fundraiser. Butte County Sheriff Larry Gillick and his deputies organized “Captain Bob’s Chuck Wagon” and served more than 1,000 pancake breakfasts to a supportive, hungry crowd on the bridge and surrounding lawn.

The rallying of the community, along with individual donations, raised the necessary funds, and the newly restored bridge was opened to pedestrian traffic in 1972. The Honey Run Bridge, now retired from the rigors of miner-shuttling and town-connecting, enjoys a reputation as a historic park and frequently hosts weddings, community events and various celebrations.

The Honey Run Bridge Association, still active as ever after 45 years, invites all bridge fans to its popular pancake breakfast every first Sunday in June, when the Colman Museum hosts its annual 49er Day Faire.

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A WO R T H Y C A U S E : G E N O C I D E N O M O R E Martin Luther King Jr.’s wisdom tells us, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” The Dalai Lama believes, “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.”

These are lofty ideas and difficult to put into action in our busy everyday lives. Yet members of Shasta County’s Genocide No More: Save Darfur use their time, talents and resources to fight injustice and help Darfuris—which also brings good to Shasta County.

In April of 2006, Marv Steinberg formed Shasta County’s Genocide No More: Save Darfur (darfurredding.org). Through prayer, education and writing letters to politicians, the committee seeks to help end the genocide in Darfur. It also raises money to help Darfuri refugees.

Since its inception, Genocide No More has held an interfaith prayer vigil the last Friday of every month at 7 pm (5 pm during the winter months) on the north side of the Sundial Bridge. The first vigil attracted more than 150 people. “I’ve committed myself to the vigil. I will show up while there are at least two people,” Steinberg says. At times, he and only one other person have made it to the vigil.

“But at least it’s two,” he says.

In raising awareness and earning money for the refugees and aid organizations, the Genocide No More committee has brought cinematic art, music and visual art to the North State. Three films that reeled were Judgment on Genocide, Sand and Sorrow and Ghosts of Rwanda. Musical concerts included The African Children’s Choir and Greg Lawson. Camp Darfur featured an interactive display, while Exhibit Darfur at City Hall included pictures by actor Mia Farrow. Sharon Brisolara, poet and owner of Evaluation Solutions, explains, “Art and artistic expression offer a means for people to reflect on and, more importantly, feel what the conflict in Darfur has meant to another human being and to imagine themselves in that person’s life.”

Shasta County children and teens have been able to speak to Darfuri refugees through art as well. Meadow Lane, Grant, North Cow Creek, Manzanita and Shasta High students and the First United Methodist Church Youth Group painted scenes, stories and messages of hope on two tents that were displayed in Washington, D.C., and later sent to Darfuri refugee families.

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Vicki Ono, kindergarten teacher at Manzanita School, and her husband Greg Lawson, a teacher at North Cow Creek and singer/ songwriter, took the tents to the nation’s capital. “The Tents of Hope organization asked Greg to sing at the youth conference and on the National Mall (in Washington, D.C.) for the gathering of the Tents of Hope,” Ono says. Lawson has written many songs about the violence in Darfur and the refugees. Ono says she was touched when “Darfuri youth actually knew Greg’s songs and sang with us.”

In 2007, under the edification of English teacher Judy Champagne, Shasta High School students Cassie McAleer and Cayly Tull formed Students Against Genocide, which works hand-in-hand with Genocide No More. Students Against Genocide organized three fundraising concerts. Students asked the Redding City Council to adopt a proclamation supporting humanitarian efforts in Darfur and recognizing the need to raise awareness locally on the issue.

While working with Students Against Genocide, William Purtzer, a former president of the club and now a student at Reed College, admits that he gained, as well. “On a personal level, it gave me important skills to work with a variety of people in a variety of different contexts. It made me realize that people are disposed to do good and have empathy for others, and that disposition can be used to help those in need, ultimately benefiting everyone.”

“Giving expands our souls to make room for others,” says Pastor Martin Murdock of the First United Methodist Church of Redding.

He believes that it is essential to give to our neighbors and the world at large.

Members of Genocide No More: Save Darfur may have personal reasons for giving of themselves to the Darfuris who live so far away, but they find common ground with concepts like justice, compassion and love. “I don’t dedicate as much time and resources to the people of Darfur as I should;” says Brisolara, “but I do what I do because I believe in the power of collective action, that we must act in defense of those who cannot speak or fend for themselves, that when anyone is oppressed, we are all diminished, and because I want my daughter to understand the importance of not only standing up for what one believes, but acting on it.” •

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CO U N T RY FA R M T R A I L B E L L A V I S TA , PA LO C E D R O Bob Hooper and Arnold Wilhelmi are typical of the 14 small farmers and ranchers who’ve formed the new Country Farm Trail of the eastern Shasta County towns of Bella Vista and Palo Cedro. They thrive on having way too much to do and continually learning. They both have the energy of much younger men.

When Hooper retired in 1988, he planted five grapevines “to give myself a reason to get up in the morning.” Today, at 73, he happily works dawn to dusk, tending his 1,500 grapevines and making wines at his Intermountain Vineyards in Bella Vista. He makes fruit wines like blackberry, fig and pear as well as fine table wines like Viognier. The Viognier grape is notoriously difficult to grow but produces a white wine of depth and complexity. Every county fair for miles around has awarded him “Best of Show” awards in the homemade wine category.

Wilhelmi, a 79-year-old retired Enterprise High School biology teacher, was knee high to his mom when he planted his first radish seeds. He’s still growing radishes as well as bumper crops of peaches, plums, figs, apples and vegetables on his 10 acres in Bella Vista. And like most small farmers, Hooper and Wilhelmi will share not only their produce but also their knowledge, honed by years of experience.

Hooper, Wilhelmi and many other small farmers and ranchers in this area got to know each other better through the Bella Vista Water District meetings. A few years ago they formed the Bella Vista Water Users Committee, to discuss various water issues that are always critical to growers.

Helen and Lee Stephenson, who are active in the water users’ committee, raise handsome Boer meat goats and cultivate Asian pears on their five-acre farm in Bella Vista. Last March, they checked out the California Small Farm Conference in Davis, a nonprofit organization “dedicated to promoting the long-term viability of California’s small family farms and the markets that sell their products.” According to the conference, 30 percent of California’s productive farms are less than 10 acres, and 65 percent are smaller than 50 acres.

Helen said she learned the most just by “talking to others.” She learned that farm trails are used effectively throughout the state to bring small growers together with people who want to buy local food and agricultural products. Discussions continued at the water user meetings; Johanna Trenerry of the Happy Valley Farm Trail on Redding’s southwest side shared her group’s experiences. Last August, The Country Farm Trail of Bella Vista and Palo Cedro officially became a nonprofit organization. In January, the Farm Trail produced a full - color map that lists all the members and their products. Residents can easily see which small farms are closest to them, what they produce and what time of year products are available.

On May 20, the Farm Trail will hold a grand opening celebration at Bella Vista Elementary School, and will include a petting zoo.

Beginning May 27, the Farm Trail will hold weekly farmer’s markets from 7:30 am until noon on the corner of Old Alturas and Deschutes Roads, just south of Highway 299. See for yourself what many Shasta County families have known for generations – food is best when it’s produced by our neighbors. • For more information countryfarmtrail.com www.arapahorosealpacas.com

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R E D D I N G ’ S A S P H A LT COW B OYS You’ve got to love a job where the two main tools of the trade are a six-shooter and a spatula.

An Asphalt Cowboy doesn’t need much else, except perhaps a bright yellow shirt, a willingness to work, a predisposition toward pancakes and a rip-roarin’ desire to support the community.

All those traits will be showcased this month when the Cowboys roll out of the bunkhouse and rustle up some Rodeo Week fun, starting May 7 with the Top Hand Dinner and wrapping up Saturday, May 15, with the Redding Rodeo Parade.

Just what is an Asphalt Cowboy? Tom Spade, a retired executive with Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. of Redding who has logged 33 years with the Cowboys, says a couple of businessmen formed the organization in 1952 as a way to promote interest in the then-sagging Redding Rodeo.

The marketing effort established by Bill Dicker and John Fitzpatrick not only helped put fans in the rodeo arena grandstands, it led to the creation of Rodeo Week, an eight-day stretch of events that range from a zany mock bank robbery to an intimate al fresco pancake breakfast for 10,000 in downtown Redding.

Spade says his personal favorite Rodeo Week event is the Monday when his fellow Cowboys join forces with the Redding Rodeo Association to give horseback rides to developmentally disabled children from throughout Shasta County. “A lot of these kids have never seen a horse and we’ll get every one of them up on a horse. That’s really a neat deal. I really enjoy that.”

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people to guess the identity of the “Lone Stranger” and locate the missing loot—and put on a golf tournament. Wednesday features a chili cook-off, quick-draw contest and a street dance.

“Thursday morning we set up Market Street for the breakfast for about four to five hours and then Thursday afternoon is the Kiddie Pet Parade at the Mt. Shasta Mall. And then we all run home to get some sleep because most of us are at the breakfast by 2:30 am,” Spade says. “We feed about 10,000 people and then clean up the mess. Then Saturday we have our big parade downtown. It’s the only free parade left in the state of California, with no entry fee.

“Our advice for the new guys is: pace yourself, it’s going to be a long week, starting Friday night with the Top Hand dinner to kick off Rodeo Week all the way through to the parade. That’s one thing the new guys have trouble with, staying upright,” Spade says.

Gary Cressey has stayed upright in the Cowboys for 40 years, and, like Spade, he has had a turn as the Top Puncher, the group’s president. The Redding businessman says it’s a lot of work, but it’s shared equally by a group of guys who keep the community’s best interests in mind. “Everybody works and it’s always been that way.

You work until it’s done.”

Cressey says he looks forward to all the Cowboy-related events, but the parade is his favorite. As a longtime announcer, Cressey has gotten to know hundreds of parade participants over the years. “The kids, the horsemen, all the neat people. It just gives me goose bumps to think of all the neat people,” he says.

Fred Hogan, the current Top Puncher and the former president of McColl’s Dairy, says he joined the Cowboys 11 years ago.

He calls it a “one-of-a-kind organization” where all 35 members pitch in. “That appealed to me,” he says. “We directly support the community and I felt this was a good way to give back.”

Hogan says he’s proud of the Cowboys’ ability to serve up an affordable breakfast to more than 10,000 people in a little more than five hours. “We keep the costs down. It’s $3 a ticket if you buy it from a Cowboy and $4 at the gate, which is still a bargain.”

All those flapjacks and Cressey has yet to be on the business end of a spatula for a single one. “I cooked sausage for 37 straight years. Forty years of Cowboying and I’ve never cooked a pancake,” he says.

The Cowboys’ culinary skills are not limited to Rodeo Week.

They also cook a pancake breakfast on Saturday and Sunday mornings during Kool April Nites and they grill up chicken and tri-tip for the Kool April Nites sponsor party.

Spade says the Cowboys, who are all deputized by the Shasta County Sheriff, have occasionally been recruited to set up their stoves, tables and chairs and feed crews responding to natural disasters like floods and wildfires.

On the second weekend in September, the Cowboys host a barbecue fund-raiser in Lake Redding Park and feed between 6,000 and 7,000 people. Proceeds from that event fund various Rodeo Week activities. • www.asphalt-cowboys.com

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S I X T E E N –Y E A R – O L D S U M M E R S C H A P P E L L R O C K S C O U N T R Y M U S I C Sitting cross-legged in a chair at a local coffee shop, Summer Schappell appears to be a typical teenager, although not many young girls can claim they were the opening act for country music star Josh Turner.

While taking a sip of her hot chocolate, she pauses. A smile curls about her lips, and she says, “I just want to share my music with everyone.” At only 16, Summer is well on her way to achieving that dream. Her motivation and enthusiasm is evident as her eyes light up when she talks about her passion. “People who tell me I can’t do it make me try 20 times harder,” she says.

For as long as she can remember, Summer has been singing and dancing for her grandparents, Bill and Kay Schappell, who raised her since she was 2. Before long, it wasn’t just family hearing her voice.

When Summer was 8, Ron Cornelius, a guitarist for The Untouchables, brought Summer on stage to sing oldies with the band. Summer says, “They were surprised when I started singing… I don‘t think they expected me to be any good.” Cornelius, a Grammy nominee and producer at Nashville-based Gateway Entertainment, recorded Summer’s self-titled debut album when she was 14.

Cornelius, a former North State resident, continues to be a big part of Summer’s career and she attributes her early success to that first invitation on stage. “I felt at home,” she says. “I had more fun at that than at prom.”

Classically trained by Dawn Hess of Kids Unlimited, Summer was encouraged early to develop her love of music through song and dance. With the dedication of her grandparents and help of Cindy Rutenshroer, her acting manager, Summer is making a name for herself.

Wearing her signature puffy dresses and Luchesse boots, Summer has performed at the Shasta District Fair, various Asphalt Cowboys events and American Cancer Society fundraisers. She is spreading her wings to perform at the Modoc, Siskiyou and El Dorado County fairs this year and will hold a concert July 4 at the Mount Shasta Resort.

Summer’s love of country music began when a friend introduced her to the genre. Once she heard young country, she says she was hooked, “I can’t believe I didn’t listen to country before; I can’t live without it now,” she says with a laugh. With Taylor Swift as her newfound inspiration, Summer vows to do what it takes to make it to Nashville some day.

That day may come very soon, as she is entertaining offers out of Nashville to sign with an independent management company, a major record label and a well-known celebrity attorney to promote her career. Summer can’t discuss the particulars yet, but her grandmother says it will take her to the next level of her career. • www.summerschappell.com www.myspace.com/summerschappell

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If Ryan Garbe doesn’t do his job correctly, he could render a $50,000 investment worthless – or he could end up knocked into next week by the rear hooves of a 1,000-pound mare.

Fortunately, Garbe’s second language is “horse.” The Redding farrier trained at a prestigious school, apprenticed with one of the best horseshoers in the industry, and has earned the trust of numerous North State horse owners.

Garbe was led into the career after working on an elderly woman’s ranch. “The shoer would come out and it was 45 bucks to shoe a horse. She told me, ‘You’ve gotta learn how to do that,’” Garbe says.

She sent him to Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School in Sacramento, where he worked from 7 am until being forced to leave the stables at 10 pm. He was as poor as it gets – an instructor took pity on him and gave him some boots to replace his beyond-worn-out pair. 

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“Builds character,” Garbe says with a half smile.

After graduation, he did an apprenticeship with renowned farrier John Suttle in Petaluma, shoeing in exchange for food and lodging.

“It took me about four years after school before I was confident enough to work on people’s horses on my own,” says the 38-year-old.

“You can cause big problems with incorrect work. You can take a $50,000 horse and turn it into nothing.”

His first job paid him $50 a day. Today, Garbe runs his own business and his days are packed. He makes all of his horseshoes by hand, forging steel bars on an anvil. The back of his truck is a workbench, packed with a scroll saw, drill press, grinder, buffer, sharpening knives and an array of hand tools. Clients come to him through word of mouth, and he shoes about five horses daily – “that’s physically about all you can do if you’re doing superb work every day,” Garbe says. Most of his clients’ horses do cutting, barrel racing, roping, reining, racing and the like.

To give a horse a perfect pedicure, he pulls the old shoe off, then clips and flattens the hoof. “They’ve got to be super flat to accommodate the horseshoe,” Garbe says. He shapes the shoe, grinds it to fit and affixes it.

“I’ve got horses I could shoe in my sleep. They’ve known me for a long time, and they’ll put up with a few discrepancies in my attitude.

But if you’re nervous, they’ll take advantage of you. They’ll work ya.”

Younger horses are toughest, but “you get them used to it; you get them to where they like you and the feel your calmness. They dig it.”

Early in his career, Garbe had the wind knocked out of him by an annoyed mare who threw two hind hooves into his chest. On the flipside are horses like Boss, “an ancient old sucker who’s the greatest ol’ horse. He was a cutter – a cow horse – and he wore his hind end out. You couldn’t pick his hind feet up. (His owner) brought out this huge block of wood and she asked him to stand up there so I could get under him and shoe him.” Sure enough, the horse stepped right up onto the block and let Garbe get to work.

Garbe used to have his own horses, but his family occupies the prime real estate in his heart now – he’s a proud Little League coach, a Cub Scout dad and an active participant in his children’s school. He and his wife, Keena, have twin 7-year-old sons, Jack and J.R., and a 4-year-old daughter, Ayla.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that the couple met 13 years ago because of a horse. “I was shoeing her mom and dad’s horses, and they were cool, good people. (Keena’s mom) brings out a picture of her daughter,” Garbe says. The family invited him to a barbecue the next time their daughter was in town. Three months later, Keena moved to Redding and the couple has been together ever since.

Keena admits to having been a skeptic about Garbe’s chosen profession in the early days. “I asked him, ‘Is this a hobby or is this a career?’” she says.

“It’s hard work, but it’s good work,” he says. •

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the 8 th annual fiber on the foot in red bluff One must look to the big box of crayons to describe the yarn selection at Red Bluff ’s Heart Felt Designs Gallery. Here the vast array of alpaca, wool and angora yarns form a chorus line of color that scream out in the juiciest of shades: Atomic Tangerine, Aquamarine, Blue Violet, Robin Egg Blue, Wild Strawberry, Shamrock. One need not be a fiber artist to be allured by this stunning display.

The question of what to do with such beautiful material is one that can be answered year round at the gallery, as classes and instruction are offered for beginners to longtime enthusiasts. The question of where and how the fibers are created is best answered at the annual Fiber on the Foot event, May 1-2 at the Tehama District Fairgrounds in Red Bluff.

“There will be fiber in all forms of processing,” says Irene Fuller, co-owner of Heart Felt, “from a blanket of fleece right off the animal clear to a finished product, with every degree of processing in between.”

The eighth annual event has grown from a showcase of alpacas to a celebration of all natural fiber-producing animals and will also include llamas, goats, sheep, rabbits and possibly a camel.

Guardian dogs will also be featured. “It’s a handcrafter’s paradise and a family-fun educational event,” she adds.

It’s been a long journey in fiber arts for Fuller. What started out as half-interest in an alpaca on her sister’s farm in Washington in 1996, what she calls her “high-risk investment after my husband passed away,” has turned into a business, lifestyle and circle of friends. Through attendance at one of the first Fiber on the Foot events, she met Laurel Karsch, now her business partner at Heart Felt. The two originally joined with others to create a fiber spinning group. While spinning and trading ideas for projects, the group dreamed of a hub for their creative pursuits. On October 7, 2007, Heart Felt Designs Gallery opened its doors in a 10,000-square-foot historic building in downtown Red Bluff.

While yarn is a popular commodity at the gallery, the biggest Heart Felt Designs Gallery 623 Main St., Red Bluff • (530) 527-5180 www.heartfeltdesignsgallery.com • Closed Mondays

seller is alpaca socks, which have developed a devoted following of North State residents looking to keep their feet warm. Alpaca fiber is warmer, softer and lighter than wool. The gallery carries styles from an everyday sock to extreme boot socks. Donations have been collected to send alpaca socks to U.S. troops serving overseas. Fuller and Karsch have worked with Tehama County Cattlewomen and Military Support Families to get the socks to units of local members of the service.

Heart Felt showcases the work of 80 local artists and farms, with everything on display from natural fiber clothing to woven and beaded necklaces to fine art and photography to felted purses. It’s a showcase for “The Creative,” says Fuller, as well as a place to develop skills.

The gallery features free monthly gatherings, and classes that vary in price.

Renowned North State artist Jeff Fennel teaches drawing in the third-floor studio space. Master knitter Alison Malone comes down from Lakehead once a month to gather with fiber enthusiasts. “People know she’s going to be here and they all come in just to see her,” says Karsch.

Karsch is a well-loved instructor as well, teaching a meditative series called “Weaving a Life” on a small journey loom. Fuller describes the series as “a journey as you weave.” She adds, “It’s about figuring out what you want to call into your life. We all grow up too quickly and things get left out. As you get older, you get to reflect on what you want to call into your life.” The class series is based on the book “Zati: The Art of Weaving a Life” by Susan Barrett Merrill. Karsch has undergone instruction with Merrill in order to teach the full series of seven meditative woven projects.

From socks to yarn to weaving a life, your natural fiber needs can be met at Heart Felt Designs Gallery. To start the process at the beginning, make sure you take in Fiber on the Foot. Where you go from there may just weave into something fabulous! • Fiber on the Foot • Tehama District Fairgrounds 650 Antelope Blvd. , Red Bluff • (530) 527-5180 www.fiberonthefoot.com May 1, 2010 9 am-5 pm • May 2, 2010 9 am-4 pm May 2010 Enjoy 42

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A breath of salty air, a morning cloak of fog, canopies of centuries-old redwoods. Sometimes a trip to the coast is the perfect “reset” button when life gets overwhelming. Head west on Highway 299 after your morning coffee and you’ll be in Humboldt County by lunchtime. Here are some ideas to get you started on your exploration of this densely forested, mountainous, rural county that hugs the Pacific coastline.

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Fast facts: • Humboldt County contains more than 40 percent of all remaining old growth Coast Redwood forests, most of which are protected within more than 1,000 square miles of national, state and local forests and parks.

Redwoods blanket the county, and you can get up close and personal with some of them on the Avenue of the Giants alongside the Eel River. Highlights include the Immortal Tree, estimated to be about 1,000 years old. It’s survived lightning, forest fires, floods and loggers’ axes. You’ll need to take at least a dozen friends if you want to fully encircle this 250-foot-tall redwood with outstretched arms. And unlike the nearby drive-through tree, there’s no charge to check it out. Also on the Avenue is the Eternal Tree House, partially built within a giant living redwood. When you’re done checking that out, toss a couple of coins into the adjacent Wishing Well.

No such thing as too much good luck.

• Eight Indian reservations lie within Humboldt’s borders; only four other counties in the United States have more.

• Eureka was named one of the 100 best art towns in America.

• The Kinetic World Grand Championship is held the first weekend of May in Humboldt County. Called the “triathlon of the art world,” this contest of human-powered, all-terrain works of art combines art, engineering and physical endurance in a three-day race over sand, mud, pavement, water and hills.

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go to college Take a stroll through the 140-acre Humboldt State University, which overlooks Humboldt Bay. You may even catch an art exhibit, theater or musical performance. It’s also home to a marine laboratory, fish hatchery and greenhouse.

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family-style feast The Samoa Cookhouse is one of the nation’s last remaining lumber-style cookhouses. Pull up to one of the 10-seat tables, and don’t expect a menu – just like at home, you get what’s cookin’ today, as much as you want, served family style. (One recent breakfast spread featured French toast, scrambled eggs, sausage, biscuits and gravy). Cookhouse and logging relics, artifacts and old photographs on the walls make it a fun place to linger.

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Explore the historical lighthouses along the Humboldt County coast.

We were enamored with the Trinidad Memorial Lighthouse, where you’ll be mesmerized by the view of waves crashing on huge rocks.

The Arkley Center for Performing Arts, built in 1920 and recently restored, features a robust schedule of shows. (Trivia: The Dance Project performed “A Cascade Christmas” here several years ago.)

get wet & get lost Kayaking, boating and fishing are among the many ways to explore the ocean, bays and rivers of Humboldt County. Kayak rental shops are everywhere. Be sure to seek an expert’s advice before heading into unfamiliar waters. The Lost Coast is the most undeveloped portion of the California coast. Most of the land is federally owned, and it’s renowned for its black sand beaches.

step back in time victorian village The tiny town of Ferndale is renowned for its magnificent Victorian architecture.

Main Street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. You’ll feel like you’re living in a long-forgotten era as you peruse the old-fashioned mercantile shops.

Old Town Eureka is on the National Register of Historic Places, and a handsome brick plaza serves as the centerpiece.

Galleries, coffee shops and merchants of many varieties have hung their shingles in Old Town Eureka. Start with a handdipped ice cream cone at Bon Boniere, treasure-hunt for your favorite record at The Works, and peek into the Clarke Historical Museum to explore basketry of indigenous native cultures.

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HUMBOLDT COUNTY Opened in July of 1990, Lost Coast Brewery, owned by Barabara Groom and Wendy Pound, is the 46th largest brewery in the United States.

Redwood National Park

Trinidad Flower lovers (and who isn’t one?) shouldn’t miss McKinleyville’s Azalea State Nature Preserve in the spring.

It’s free and open all year, from sunrise to sunset.

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The Humboldt Crabs summer collegiate baseball team, based in Arcata, is the oldest continually operated semi-pro baseball team in America.

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The Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka has inspired wonder among animal lovers since 1907. Watch a bear take a dip in the pond, get up close and personal with an alpaca in the Barnyard and learn more about our feathered friends as you walk through the aviary. Admission is just $4 for adults and $2 for kids 12 and under, and every Wednesday is dollar day (they’re closed Mondays).

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36 The Humboldt Creamery in Fernbridge, founded in 1930, still operates from its original headquarters. The creamery began when 153 dairy farming families all contributed 10 cents per cow so local farmers could produce and market their own dairy products.

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Sample some of the Loleta Cheese Factory’s 34 varieties of cheese in its tasting area, and see how the cheese is manufactured through large viewing windows. The family-run business is a great place to pick up a gift.

Treat yourself to a decadent stay at the magnificent Gingerbread Mansion or one of the town’s other fine bed and breakfasts.

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Consider a romantic getaway to the Scotia Inn, built in 1924 in the quaint town of Scotia. Soak your cares away in a clawfoot tub.

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The Lakehead resident has begun constructing highend teardrop trailers that feature fine cabinetry, polished aluminum siding, diamond plate fenders, crazy cool lighting fixtures and dozens of other hip touches.

“It’s really fun,” he says. “It’s like building forts … adult forts.”

Bowden’s version of the popular trailers – they’ve been around since the late 1930s – are specifically designed to compliment Mini Coopers. The teardrop he pulls behind his red-and-white Mini looks as if it were sold as a set with the car.

Bowden calls his trailers MiniTears. They’re 8 feet, 6 inches long by 4 feet wide, and weigh 876 pounds.

Though he designed them with Mini Coopers in mind, the compact and relatively light trailers can be pulled behind just about any vehicle.

The endeavor is a perfect evolution for Bowden. It engages his design and woodworking skills (he’s finally completed that dream workshop), and the trailers reflect his and his wife’s love of camping and the outdoors.

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“There’s no more planning a camping trip,” Bowden says. “The teardrop has everything already in it. It can be a Friday evening and I’ll say, ‘Let’s go to the coast.’ And we can just take off.”

Bowden’s own teardrop features an interior sleep space with varnished alder walls and a pair of wine cabinets.

The rear hatch area opens to a kitchen/pantry with a running sink and ice-chest storage area with a slide-out shelf.

“Teardroppers” are often people who have traditionally camped with tents. The trailers add a significant level of comfort to the experience, however. You don’t have to set them up or tear them down, they keep occupants off the ground when sleeping, they’re warm when it’s chilly, yet can be cooled by a unique ventilation system. When you’re driving, they store a bundle of gear.

The Bowdens caught the teardrop bug after a Dam Gathering of the Tears event in Lakehead two years ago.

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The MiniTear trailer he’s currently building for Tampa, Fla.’s Stephen Peters features magnetically locking drawers and a flatscreen TV/stereo system in the main cabin.

“I can never seem to just build something for the sake of building it,” he says. “It’s always high-end everything.

It’s part of my personality, I guess. You can do some incredible things with the right tools.”

Bowden’s MiniTears start at $6,995 and increase based on features and options. For specific features and more information, visit minitears.com.

Part of the satisfaction behind the trailer-building endeavor stems from his father Jack, who died six years ago. Jack Bowden had always wanted his son to build hot rods with him, but Kurt was always off exploring other interests.

Kurt has dedicated his trailer-building project to his dad.

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(Thinking of him) forced me to hold myself to a little higher standard. If things didn’t fit well, it forced me to go back and redo it and get it right.” • 51 Enjoy May 2010

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Tea is a fragrance on a journey, traveling from stem to cup. Legend says the first cup of tea made itself, when a few tea leaves fell into the Chinese Emperor Shennong’s cup and surprised him when he wished to sip at his cup of hot water. Over the centuries, tea found its way into the life of Daniela Bose in her native Switzerland. As her knowledge of tea and its rituals grew, Bose took tea on her travels until she became surrounded by its aroma at Sereni-tea in Mount Shasta.

“Love brought me to the United States.” Bose says. She and her husband Anik settled in the Bay Area, where she founded a nonprofit yoga studio. “I began to get fed up with all the energy of the area and wanted to return to a small town, like where I had grown up. I found Mount Shasta and remembered my mom told me I should open a tea shop some day.”

Tea came to English-speaking countries in the 1650s, sold in coffee houses, and making its way throughout the British colonies. Bose has brought its unique taste and smell to her shop, the shelves lined with tea from around the world. Labels introduce teas from Africa, India, Japan, China, Taiwan and South America. Each day she offers three samples of different varieties, with a sitting area to enjoy a cup and the conversation of others in the shop.

Finding the right teas can be difficult. The Boston Tea Party was a protest of British taxes on the colonies and the India tea was tossed into the harbor. Bose set out to find tea for her shop that people would most enjoy and seek. “At first, there were few good distributors in the United States. Then, a man I knew from Hamburg extended his business into this country, allowing me to carry over 150 varieties, with two-thirds being available through him,” Bose says.

There are four types of tea: black, green, oolong and white. These can be divided into 3,000 varieties. The oils in the tea give it the aroma so familiar in the shop and in the hot cups served there. Herbs and fruit are sometimes used in place of tea. Sereni-tea’s selections range from black tea to herbal and fruit infusions.

Tea is also an art, with accessories to enhance its enjoyment. The store offers cups, teapots, honey straws, stevia leaves, teacakes and chocolates to make tea an experience. Various steeping containers help with the preparation of the loose-leaf teas.

The first thing customers notice is the fragrance of the shop. The light instrumental music blends with the scents of tea and an air of home. Small containers give an opportunity to smell any type of tea.

Local artists are featured each month, encouraging the conversation and fellowship tea provides.

Sereni-tea moved two years ago from a basement to the main street of the city. New customers come and buy the familiar, while others come to enjoy the many choices. “Our customers like the laid-back feeling here,” manager Monique Michel sums up. “It’s a nice change.”• 319 N. Mount Shasta Blvd., Mount Shasta Open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm www.sereni-tea.net; (530) 926-1688 53 Enjoy May 2010

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Redding’s Russ Azevedo occasionally puts off the chores.

The 73-year-old former Caltrans worker feels it’s his duty to enjoy his retirement on two wheels. In fact, Azevedo, a 40-year member of the Shasta Wheelmen bicycle club, rode his bike a staggering 10,000 miles in 2009. That’s the equivalent of riding from San Francisco to New York City and back — twice. Or, like riding from Redding to Los Angeles and back 10 times.

“I get out when I can,” says Azevedo in quite the understatement.

“It’s kind of what I do. I don’t get a lot done around the house, but I play a lot.”

For someone who rides that much, you wouldn’t think Azevedo needs much extra motivation to get on his bike. Yet, like most of the other approximately 90 members of the Shasta Wheelmen club, he says the camaraderie helps him stay focused on getting out there.

“Any time you’re feeling lazy you can’t, quote, let the other riders down,” he said. “So you show up.”

It’s the 40th year of existence for the Shasta Wheelmen, and the 40th year the club has held its annual Jamboree Century. The May 2 event is open to riders of all ages and ability and there are courses of 100, 66 (metric century), 25 and 10 miles.

Club members anticipate as many as 400 riders for this year’s event.

All the rides depart from Redding’s Sundial Bridge, and the 100-mile course heads north to Shasta Dam, before leading cyclists through Old Shasta, Igo, Cottonwood and eventually back to Redding. The Wheelmen provide food and support at rest stops along the way. For

more information or to register, visit www.shastawheelmen.org and click on the “Jamboree” tab.

“The neat thing about (the century) is it shows off the great things we have in the city and the area,” says event coordinator Paul Herman.

“The Sundial Bridge is an excellent beginning point and showcase for the ride. But riders will experience Shasta Dam, the Sacramento River, the west side mountains and hills, Cottonwood and our scenic countryside. It offers a little bit of everything.”

The Shasta Wheelmen is open to men and women of all ages. The club hosts organized rides at least four times a week in winter, and five times a week when there’s more light in the warmer months.

In addition to always having someone to ride with, the club holds monthly meetings and pursues bicycle safety and access causes in the area. The club worked with the city of Redding and other agencies to create a city-wide bicycle map, which details the best routes for cyclists in town. It’s also purchased “Share the Road” traffic signs and bumper stickers, and offers a helmet-fitting program for kids.

At the Asphalt Cowboys Pancake Breakfast on May 14, the club will provide a free secured bike parking area and ticket for those commuting to the event on their bikes.

“We’re getting to be more of a force for cycling in Shasta County,” says club president Doug Holt. “We want to do anything we can do to make bicycling safer. It’s a two-way street between motorists and cyclists, and we know we’ve got to keep our end. We’re just people who happen to dress a little differently in our sport.”

Though there are some younger members in the club, the majority

tend to be 40 and older. Club member Bob Malain is still riding strong at age 82.

The club has a no-drop policy on its rides, meaning that no matter how slow someone is riding, someone will always wait or return to ride with that person so that they’re not alone. That ethic can be very reassuring when riders are a good distance from town on a country road.

“I ride as much for psychological reasons as physical reasons,” says John Crowe, 62, a member of the club for eight years. “There’s some security when you’re riding in a group, some safety in numbers. If something happens, there’s probably someone else around or at least will be shortly.”

In 2002, Azevedo had one such awful encounter. He was struck by a pick-up truck while on a 120-mile ride. He was airlifted to Enloe Medical Center in Chico where he spent 42 days with broken bones and a variety of internal injuries.

His fitness and strength from cycling certainly helped his recovery.

Because he doesn’t remember much from the crash, he said he never had a hard time returning to the bike.

“I lucked out because there are five days I’ll never know about,” Azevedo says. “I don’t have the shakes when someone’s behind me.

“You pay attention and you should always be OK and have fun.

Basically, you pretend like no one can see you, because a lot of times they don’t.”

That is, unless they are other Shasta Wheelmen members. Someone from the club always seems to be on the lookout. •

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Describing the creative work of Finley Fryer requires more than a thesaurus. A tour of his studio and a glance through his portfolio create a hurricane of confused delight, sort of an “Alice in Wonderland” experience. Quirky, wacky, whimsical, edgy, color-rich, obsessive, massive, brilliant… his workspace portrays a somewhat madcap artist with its storefront gallery of eclectic creations leading to a studio with projects in various stages of construction.

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His bigger-than-life Albino Big Foot stands watch at the front door. The sculpture made of steel armature, foam core, high-strength cement and with a reinforced subsurface stands eight feet, four inches tall. Under the awning in the outside studio leans a steel gate with an arching salmon on either side, a commission piece he is working on for the mayor of Dunsmuir. These don’t compare, as massive creations go, however, to the giant structures he has erected at the eccentric, creative, organic art extravaganza known as Burning Man. Fryer’s Burning Man artwork earned international acclaim as “portable architectural structures” that arose out of the Nevada desert during several of the annual events beginning in 1998 with his “Plastic Chapel.” It encompassed a stage for many of the performance art venues that year. He continued his grant-funded participation for five years ending in 2002 with “The Portal.” Though he enjoyed the creative opportunity to express his artistry in the unfettered environment of Burning Man, the magnitude of those undertakings was exhausting. He has enjoyed returning to the solitude of his Dunsmuir retreat with Jayne. Is Burning Man a past chapter? Maybe.

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folks” of the Bay Area artists “Funk Movement.” Fryer, a Shasta High School graduate, became part of that growing and vibrant artistic movement that spread from San Francisco to New York during the early 1970s.

With his bachelor’s degree in fine arts, he began to carve out his career path by restoring stained glass windows in churches. He collected discarded fragments of glass and stone along the way and in his free time created windows and mixed media sculptures. He painted, sculpted and constructed his way between New York and the Bay Area for 15 years, with significant gallery showings along the way.

A prolific artist, Fryer continues to create: welding, sculpting and painting. In some ways, his work at present seems to be growing smaller, more utilitarian and ornamental; “salable,” he says almost apologetically. Anyone visiting his gallery and studio, however, would not be fooled by his reluctant acquiescence to create “commercial” pieces. His artistic juices flow unabated and his work still takes him to heady heights. Even his smaller pieces demonstrate exquisite detail and obsessive perfectionism. He continues to find gallery space in the Bay Area for his work and commissions come in at a slow, steady pace.

He says with a bit of self-deprecation, “I have been discovered and forgotten several times through the years.”

He loves the quaint and quiet mountain community of Dunsmuir, but occasionally talks with Jayne about the opportunities and advantages of living in the city where art and artists mingle their rich textures and promote their creativity in a more provocative environment. Even as he mentions it, he gently shakes his head with fingers pawing back a mane of white hair, glancing round at his unfinished projects. He seems content to work in his solitary retreat. •

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Through the years she has come to think of herself as a “professional comforter.” Nora McNeill has a large circle of friends built through her career in nursing and midwifery, her church and as a very involved mother. From her house, she can see the front doors of daughter Joanna, son Chuck and mother Ruth’s homes. Leah, another daughter, lives across town and comes regularly to share in family meals. One of the defining character qualities that motivates her relationships is compassion.

A registered nurse and state-licensed midwife, McNeill felt early on what she considers a high calling, the natural outflow of her helping and nurturing nature. She began teaching childbirth classes in 1975 and shortly after that, assisted for the first time during a friend’s home birth. She has assisted with more than 900 home births during the 35 years that she has been in practice. A steady flow of women continue to call for McNeill’s services, which used to be her “other” job along with a full-time career in a variety of healthcare environments. Now it is how she schedules her life. “Catching” babies is all in a day’s work for McNeill.

Overseeing the birthing of a second generation of babies now, McNeill describes the most important role she plays as “helping women expand their self-limitations; then the mechanics of birthing just happen.” Her job, she feels, is “being sure the vessel can do its job—emotionally, physically, spiritually. “ The months of checkups and childbirth preparation she provides help women deal with their fears and “connect women with the natural process.” During prenatal visits, she coaches women about preventive healthcare, focusing on nutrition, exercise and stress management.

McNeill recorded 29 births in 2009, her busiest year ever, with 10 in January alone – a rare and exhausting schedule, she says. The clientele often surprises those who think that home birth appeals predominantly to folks pursuing alternative lifestyles. Approximately 75 percent of her clients use private insurance to pay her fee and she guesses that 50 percent of her clients have in professional careers.

Delivering babies, however, is just a part of McNeill’s full life.

The home she has renovated overlooks the eastern mountains and provides a panoramic view of the city of Redding, Mt. Shasta, Mt. Lassen and on down the valley toward Anderson. From the upper deck, the restful sounds of water cascading through river rock can be heard as a man-made streambed weaves its way under and around the multi-tiered decking and lush garden to the pond below. On a recent tour, McNeill pointed out her beautifully restored piano, multipaned front door with stained glass insets, and original artwork.

McNeill has enjoyed the process of renovation, but now relaxes in a comfortable and homey enclave she loves to share with others.

McNeill’s mother encouraged a far more frivolous and impractical passion to take root not many years ago that actually began during her childhood. Her father had restored a 1931 Model A convertible that each of his children were allowed to drive as long as they earned at least a “B” average. After she married, husband Mike bought a weekly $1 lottery ticket promising that the winnings would go toward the purchase of a convertible, a dream she has harbored since she learned to drive in the Model A. Though Mike couldn’t fulfill his promise before his untimely death in 2001, McNeill decided to rekindle her childhood passion when she purchased a 2004 Nissan 350Z convertible with less than 5,000 miles.

Less romantic than she’d hoped, but every bit a dream come true, it is no longer just a classy car. She has added a high performance 400-horsepower turbo engine, dressed up wheels, new grille and clutch plates made out of carbon fiber. For those who know such things, she owns the only Nissan convertible with Nismo trim pieces, making it very unique “eye candy.” “It is totally insane the stuff I’ve done to my car,” she says.

Nora McNeill has traveled all over the world. She became a personal trainer in her quest for health and balance and a broader perspective in her own life. She says she fully appreciates the view from her top deck. The panorama of her life broadens as she shares her comforting gifts and skills with new mothers and fathers, friends and her own close-knit family. • May 2010 Enjoy 64

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The scene was absolutely spectacular.

I was about two miles off the road trudging through the 12 inches of freshly fallen snow on my snowshoes. I often do this as a cross train; it breaks up the mundane miles of running the Sacramento River Trail and cycling the roads of Redding. And it gives me some high altitude training to boot.

I stopped at the scene in awe, touched, inspired. The air was still and perfectly quiet, save for the faint ringing in my ears that’s always there from years of shooting my .45 and running my chainsaw without ear protection. I wished for someone to share this with. I thought of my running partner Vixen, whom I had left in his kennel back home fearing the snow would be too deep; I was wrong.

How remarkably different this scene was six months earlier when I’d sat shirtless fishing the lake with my two nephews, 6-year-old Cade and 3-year-old Elias. Crater Lake in western Lassen County is beautiful in summer as well. The lake is a purple blue and sits in stark contrast against the black volcanic rock, burnt orange bark of the ponderosa pines that tower overhead, the white strips of aspen and the occasional splash of lime-green moss. Fish jumping and flies hitting the water, birds shuffling amongst the quaking leaves, all were among the abundant sounds of nature that defined summer. None of these existed today.

Today’s quiet and stillness were daunting: the simplicity of white on black, snow on stone. It brought a quiet simplicity that gave my mind peace and my soul rest, and allowed a union of mind and soul to be created.

I wiped the snow clear and sat down on a fallen tree and thought back to that summer day with pride and admiration for my two young nephews; their patience and fortitude and curiosity and perceptiveness were inspiring. Cade was reeling in his third rainbow when an osprey hit the water in front of us with the force of a linebacker, hooked a trout in her talons and lifted back into the air with the grace of a ballerina. The boys were awestruck. Fifty yards off the water, a bald eagle that had been accompanying us all morning attempted to intercept the much smaller bird’s kill. The osprey immediately headed for the trees, dodging in and out of the pine branches. Eventually, the eagle surrendered its pursuit, returned to its perch and the osprey flew off over the ridge with her hard-earned breakfast. “YES, YES!” Cade yelled as he pumped his fist in the air; Elias quickly followed suit.

On my way back to my truck, following my freshly covered footprints, I thought of the upcoming summer and fishing trips back into the Caribou Wilderness and the Trinity Alps. It’s a tradition I’ve created with my nephews because of our love of nature, my love of freshly percolated coffee and the taste of freshly grilled trout. A tradition that pulls children away from their televisions and video games and into the wonders of the great outdoors. A tradition that teaches patience and persistence, and the importance of preparedness and hard work. A tradition that wipes clear the pressures of home and allows boys to get dirty and to hold pocketknives, poke the fire with sticks and throw rocks. A tradition that, truth be told, makes me feel like a boy again.

Someday I’ll show the boys this black and white side of our beloved lake, perhaps on an ice fishing trip. But for now, I’ll keep its serenity. •

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Dermatologists say SPF 15 doesn’t cut it anymore, and recommend wearing an absolute minimum of SPF 30 when planning on being outdoors for more than a few minutes. Just as with the face, look for a formula that offers broad-spectrum protection from both UVB (the rays that cause burning) and UVA (the ones that cause aging). Key ingredients are avobenzone (also called Parsol 1789), titanium dioxide or zinc oxide.

Fifteen to 30 minutes before stepping into your bikini, rub at least one ounce (think shot glass size) over the whole body, starting at the neck and working your way down. It may feel a little slimy and overwhelming at first, so if you can’t stand it, rub half the amount on, wait 10 minutes for it to dry, and then apply a second layer. And since you should know by now to wear sunscreen on the face every day, you should already have that down.

Before you leave the house, check to make sure you’ve remembered the often-neglected areas: on the ears, behind the ears, in the crooks of the arms, between the fingers and toes, behind the knees and on the tops of the feet. Dermatologists say the best advice they’ve ever been given is to apply sunscreen to the backs of your hands every day; their paper-thin skin is one of the first places to show signs of aging.

Once you’re out there having fun, be sure to reapply every two hours (and every time you emerge from the water, or more often if you’re sweating), regardless of what the

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Rodeos are a pretty big deal in the North State. Not only do they bring a lot of revenue to the area, they show community spirit, feature several days of exciting events and bring hundreds of cowboys and cowgirls from all over the country.

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Exhibition Pasta Night is back on Thursdays from 5:30 to 9 pm. Create your own pasta concoction, from scallops to meatballs, red sauce to wine sauce - ombinations are limitless. Corkage fee is waived on Thursdays, so bring in your favorite wine. Tierra Oaks is not only a fabulous golf course but an incredible venue for social and business gatherings. 19700 La Crescenta Drive, Redding; (530) 275-0887

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I recently saw the movie, “Julie and Julia,” and thoroughly enjoyed it! I now own a mortar and pestle, as Julia said that a kitchen is not complete without one. For Christmas, my kids gave me “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” and a DVD of the movie. I also remember being glued to the television when I was younger, watching The French Chef, and who doesn’t chuckle every time just thinking about that skit where Dan Aykroyd impersonated Julia Child?

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Sole Almondine Ingredients: Fish: 2 cups slivered almonds Salt Extra-virgin olive oil 4 T unsalted butter 2 cups all-purpose flour Freshly ground black pepper 4 eggs 1 cup milk 4 fresh sole fillets (6 oz each) Sauce: 1 large shallot, finely chopped 1 cup white wine 1 lemon, juiced ¼ cup chopped flat-leaf parsley Salt and freshly ground black pepper

Potatoes Ingredients: 6 medium Yukon gold potatoes 2 to 3 cups heavy whipping cream 2 to 3 cups whole milk Kosher salt 2 lemons, zested Freshly ground black pepper

Green Beans Ingredients: 1 pound thin green beans (haricots verts) Extra-virgin olive oil Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano 73 Enjoy May 2010

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S ole A lmondine Over medium heat, toast almonds until golden brown in large nonstick saute pan, 5-7 minutes. Season with salt and set aside on paper towel to cool. Return pan to medium heat (to cook more than two filets, use two pans) and add about a two-count pour of olive oil and 1 tablespoon of butter to each pan. In a shallow dish, put in flour and season with salt and pepper. In another shallow dish, whisk together eggs and milk and season with salt and pepper. Dredge fillets in seasoned flour, tapping off excess flour, then dip them into egg mixture.

Allow some of the excess egg to drain off, then add them to the hot pan. Cook 2 pieces at a time. Fry for 1 ½ to 2 minutes, then carefully turn fish over to cook other side. Using a spoon, baste fillets frequently with butter sauce. Once the other side is cooked (about 30 seconds), carefully remove fillets from pan to a serving platter. Put chopped shallots in pan and gently saute over low heat until translucent, about 1 minute. Using the white wine, deglaze pan and finish with lemon juice. Add the remaining 2 T of butter and swirl into liquid from deglazing. Add parsley and season to taste with salt and pepper. To serve, spoon the sauce over top of the fillets and sprinkle generously with toasted almonds.

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S mashed L emon P ommes ( P otatoes ) Cut potatoes in large pieces and put in large saucepan with cream and milk. Bring to a boil over medium heat, add 1 teaspoon of salt. Reduce heat and simmer until potatoes are very tender, 15-20 minutes. Ladle out 2 cups of the liquid and reserve. Add lemon zest and season with salt and pepper, to taste. Use a potato masher to smash potatoes, adding about 1 cup of the reserved liquid to keep them wet. (If potatoes sit for a period of time before being served, add more, for desired creaminess.) Spoon potatoes into serving bowl and serve immediately.

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Parmesan - R oasted H aricots V erts ( G reen B eans ) Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. If using thin green beans, there is no need to blanche them, but if beans are larger, blanche before roasting to ensure doneness. Pinch off stem end of beans and place beans on nonstick cookie sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, lightly season with salt and pepper and toss to coat all beans, (careful not to over salt as cheese can be very salty). Grate and sprinkle cheese evenly over top and bake until cheese melts and forms a crisp shell over beans.

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This year's event will celebrate the spirit of the Celtic Nations with a host of great entertainment including music, modern Clans, Highland games, a renaissance village, amazing one of the kind wares for sale.

Guests will enjoy ethnic food and drink and a host of cultural exhibits and merchandise native to Scotland and the Celtic fringe. For more information, visit www.shastafaire.com

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May 22 Downtown Whitmore

Sponsored by the Whitmore Volunteer Fire Company, Inc., this event is the largest fundraising event of the year. Some of the fun includes a parade, car and bike show, live entertainment, food and craft vendors, barbecue lunch and dinner, beer and wine booth, waterslide for the kids, and much more. For more information, call (530) 472-1429.

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RED BLUFF RIVER PARK CAR SHOW (Red Bluff) May 16 Red Bluff River Park

The Contemporary Historical Vehicle Association (CHVA), Mt. Shasta Region, invites you to enjoy a relaxing day next to the Sacramento River. Street legal cars and trucks from antiques to 1984 are welcome. People's Choice trophy awards, 50-50 raffle, raffle prizes, food and drinks. Register 8 to 10 am. Enter on Willow Street, off Main Street in Downtown Red Bluff. For more information, call (530) 547-5774 or (530) 275-8655

May 14, 6 pm Red Bluff Community Center

A kickoff event for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life Walk-A-Thon which includes a barbecue dinner prior to the show. Sponsored by the Red Bluff Kiwanis Club. For more information, call (530) 529-3733

WIZARD OF OZ (Redding) This magical production, based on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s celebration of the 1939 MGM movie, is presented with breathtaking special effects that will sweep audiences away from the moment the tornado twists its way into Kansas. For more information, visit www.reddingconventioncenter.com

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McCLOUD MUSHROOM, MUSIC & WINE FAIRE (McCloud) May 29 & 30 Main Street

Mushroom vendors, wine tasting, special mushroom delicacies, cooking demonstrations, musical entertainment, live band & barbeque. For more information, call (530) 964-2431.

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Strawberry Festival Saturday May 23

Come and enjoy a fun and entertaining day!

Our famous and generous servings of sweet strawberries, ice cream and shortcake are only $6.00!

Arts & Crafts booths • Continuous Entertainment throughout the day • Magician • Horse Rides • Classic Cars • The Tractor Club

Pancake Breakfast at 7:00am by H.H. Club Festival from 9:00am - 5:00pm Strawberries served from 10:00am - 4:00pm Free admission & free off street parking (on ball field, follow the signs for parking) Happy Valley Elementary School Happy Valley Rd. & Palm Ave. No dogs or smoking on school grounds.

Purchase advance tickets at Country Market, Valley Market, Happy Stop, Discount Feed, H.V. Elementary & Primary Schools.

Presented by the Happy Valley Community Foundation. We are a nonprofit organization. Proceeds go back to the community for grants, programs and the Strawberry Festival. Rain date is Saturday May 30th. Call 357-5449 for more information.

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The Pro’s and Joe’s BBQ Grilldown is Saturday, May 29th from 11-4 on the demonstration block of Market Street in front of the Cascade Theatre.

Come down and join the fun! Watch the BBQ participants give it their all in this Grilldown!

Viva Downtown Redding is partnering with Results Radio to present the First of It’s Kind- Pro’s and Joe’s BBQ Grilldown. David Duarte of Applejack’s and Mike Dill of Dill’s Deli are helping coordinate a fun-filled BBQ competition featuring some of the North State’s best BBQers. The event will host 30 different BBQers who will offer their best chicken, ribs and tri-tip selections. The competition is divided into two categories of competitorsthe Professional BBQers (Pro’s) and the Joe’s (anyone who thinks they’ve got the best BBQ around). Food sample tastings, beer and wine will be available for purchase. Attendees will have the opportunity to vote for the “People’s Choice” winner.

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May 16 • Contemporary Historical Vehicle Association Annual Car Show Red Bluff City River Park (530) 547-5774 May 22 • Dutch Oven Cook Off & Craft Fair Red Bluff City River Park (530) 527-8177 • Girlfriends Day and Well Being Faire (530) 527-5180 Redding May 1 • Shasta College Vehicle Equipment Show and Shop (530) 242-2213, 7:30 am - 3:30 pm May 1, 2 • Mother’s Day Fair - Enterprise High School 9 am, www.enterprisehornets.com May 6 • “Craft Affaire” at American Cancer Society Discovery Shop (530) 244-3032 May 7 • Grant School fundraising performance Jim Dyar Band 7 - 10 pm (530) 243-0561 May 8 • Matson’s Winery Spring Release Party 3pm - 7pm • Dog-A-Thon Haven Humane Society walking trail 10 am - 1 pm (530) 241-5262 May 14 • The Oaksong Music Society, Bernie’s Guitar Juni Fisher (530)-223-2040 • North State Talent Search - Mt. Shasta Mall Food Court (530) 778-3897 May 14 - 21 • The NorCal Bicycle Commute Week (530) 229-8243 Through May 15 • Art Exhibit “For Eye and Mind” Old City Hall (530) 241 -7320 May 15 • Rodeo Week Kickoff Steak Feed & Dance, 7 pm Redding Rodeo Grounds Arena (530)243-8877 • 2nd Saturday Art Hop, www.anewscafe.com • “Aida” Shasta Learning Center 7 pm (530) 243-8877 • The Oaksong Music Society Bernie’s Guitar May 16 • Cats N Jammer Jazz Elks Lodge (530) 241-3397 Through May 29 • North Valley Art League Juried Photography Show, Carter House Gallery, (530) 243-1023 May 29 • “HeART 4 Nations” Global Arts & Food Festival Library Park 11 am - 10 pm Mt. Shasta May 1 • Bridal Faire 11 am - 3 pm at My Favorite Things 311 N. Mt. Shasta Blvd.

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May 9 • Open Mic Night 6 - 8 pm Stage Door 414 N. Mt. Shasta Blvd Shasta May 8, 9 • Art Festival and Old Time Fiddle Jamboree Middle Creek Road (530) 243-5399 Weaverville May 1 • Weaverville Art Cruise 5 - 8 pm (530) 623-6101 May 29, 30 • Trinity Gem & Mineral Show - Lowden Park Weed May 15 • "Customs & Classics Car Show" 9 am - 3 pm Lake Shastina Community Center, 2010 Lake Shore Dr. Yreka May 15 • “The Paper Show” Liberty Arts 108 W. Miner St. 5 pm Cascade Theatre www.cascadetheatre.org May 14, 15, 17 • Bravura

May 16 • North State Symphony May 21 • Senior Idol Laxson Auditorium www.chicoperformances.com May 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 • Rent: The Musical May 14 • Rani Arbo & Daisy Mayhem May 15 • The Bold and the Beautiful May 19 • Willy Wonka, Jr. Redding Convention Center www.reddingconventioncenter.com May 13, 14, 15, • The 62nd Annual Redding Rodeo • May 19 • Homeless Commission May 21, 22 • Art Gala May 21, 22, 23 • 3 on 3 Basketball Tourney May 26 • Shasta Senior Nutrition Commodities May 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 • Crown Motors May 30 • Veterans Ceremony and Luncheon Rolling Hills Casino www.rollinghills.com May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 • Live music Carlino’s Event Center May 22 • Fly Girls State Theatre Red Bluff www.statetheatreredbluff.com May 1 • The Rocky Horror Picture Show May 2 • Southtown Strummers Sing-Along Concert May 7 • “The Magic of Movies” May 16 • North State Symphony Concert May 22 • “Mamma Mia!” May 31 • Artist In Residence Reception & Exhibit Tehama District Fairgrounds www.tehamadistrictfair.com May 1 • Cinco de Mayo May 1, 2 • Fiber on the Foot Fiber Producers Festival • Red Bluff Garden Club • Shasta-Tehama Home & Garden Show • Arabian “Silver Buckle” Horse Show May 14, 15, 16 • Northern Counties Quarter Horse Association Horse Show May 15, • Arts to Antiques Spring Faire May 23, 24, 29 30 • Northern California Paint Horse Show Turtle Bay Exploration Park www.turtlebay.org May 1 • Wings of Summer, Butterflies Through September 6 • GPS Adventures Through May 2 • The Art of Mt. Shasta Through May 3 • Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts May 3 • Thoreau’s Walden, A Journey in Photographs

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The tiny girl with the blond braids didn’t trust the uniformed man in blue. He was dressed just like the man who took her daddy to jail.

But it’s hard to resist the generosity of a stranger with kind eyes, who brings a birthday cake and balloons, a brand-new backpack full of things she needs, and a handmade blanket that feels like a hug. By afternoon’s end, she was walking hand-in-hand with her new friend.

“Operation Blue Birthday” is one of the programs organized by the nonprofit Spouses Behind the Badge, an alliance of wives and husbands of law enforcement officers. This program aims to boost the spirits of youngsters staying at a shelter or in protective custody on their birthdays, while building trust between these children and police officers. “Some of these kids have families who deal with law enforcement a lot,” explains Alysha Barner, a founding member of Spouses Behind the Badge.

Shelter workers contact Spouses Behind the Badge when a child is there on his or her birthday. A representative from the organization and a police officer go to the shelter with a backpack filled with a blanket, pillow, toiletries, coloring books, crayons and an ageappropriate toy. A birthday cake and balloons add to the festivities.

The organization hosted parties for 15 children in its first year, thanks to donations from group members and the community.

The idea was sparked by “Operation Blue Santa,” an endeavor in which the Redding Police Department delivers Christmas gifts to needy or hospitalized children. In 2007, Cpl. Brian Barner and his wife, Alysha, helped out, and they were touched by a 7-year-old little girl’s wish list, which contained bare necessities. Three months later, the Barners brought her a gift for her birthday, and the family was overwhelmed with joy. They were inspired to keep it going.

Now, when a child in a shelter has a birthday, Operation Blue Birthday arranges a birthday party for the child. All the other children at the party get small gifts as well, so no one feels left out. Police officers and members of Spouses Behind the Badge attend the party, 85 Enjoy May 2010

which helps children overcome their fear of officers. Partners include Redding Rancheria’s Head Start, Mercy Maternity Clinic, Good News Rescue Mission, Shasta Women’s Refuge and Parent Partners.

The group received an award for civic achievement from the Redding Police Department earlier this year.

The stories are captured in photos, preserved on colorful scrapbook pages created by organization member Jenny Moore. “Every child has an amazing story,” Barner says.

Six months ago, they discovered a little girl crying in the corner during a birthday party. Earlier, “officers came and took her daddy to jail,” Barner says. An officer introduced himself to her, struck up a conversation, and within minutes, “they were best buds,” Barner says.

Adds Kristy Lanham, the wife of Redding Police Officer Tyler Lanham: “It’s not like the balloons and the backpack are going to last the rest of her life, but it gave her something to cling to. It just swallows your heart.”

It’s also a joy to see the “softer side” of the officers, Lanham says.

“They see very difficult things every day, and they just turn into the biggest teddy bears and the kids love them. They’re just heroes. That’s how we view them, so it’s nice to see these kids think so, too.”

Redding Police Chief Peter Hansen says the program is a blessing for the North State. “It provides a good message and impact to the young people who are unfortunately displaced,” Hansen says. “When you’re looking at how to have a positive impact on someone’s life, this is it – one person at a time.”• You can help… what’s needed: Backpacks, toiletries, coloring books and crayons, diapers, formula, toys. Cash donations help purchase clothing in the correct size. For more information, e-mail Alysha Barner at bvpalms@frontiernet.net or call (530) 524-2669. www.spousesbehindthebadge.org

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