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ON thE COvErPhoto By Kara Stewart

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15ArtS15 | ONE MAN’S trEASUrESBruno Tomaino Turns One Man’s Junk into Beautiful Art

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38 | CrEAM OF thE CrOPThe Fitzpatricks and How They Helped Build Redding

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Sweet treats, bountiful harvests and birthday candles are some of the things that make October so special to us. It’s been three years since we introduced ourselves to you, and we are so humbled by how you have welcomed us into your lives.

We’ve had the privilege of introducing you to some of the North State’s most delightful places, inspirational people and hidden treasures, and in return, you have embraced us like we could have never imagined three years ago. We’re so proud of our writers, photographers and designers who sprinkle their magic onto these pages, and to the advertisers who invest their hard-earned dollars with us (the testimonials on the back cover are proof positive that they believe in us). Most of all, we’re grateful to you – our loyal readers – without whom our dream could have never left our computer screens. If you’ve become engrossed in our pages, chatted with us at a community event, voted in a Top 10 contest or shopped at one of our advertisers’ businesses, you have been part of Enjoy Magazine’s success during these first three years. We can’t thank you enough.

And do we have a treat for you! If you fancy yourself a photographer, you could win the opportunity to have your art showcased on 20,000 copies of our favorite magazine. Our first-ever cover contest challenges you to enter your finest work for the chance to win some amazing prizes, including a $250 Gift Certificate from Crown Camera and a one-of-a-kind etching of your photograph, donated by our friends at Infinite Designs. And the winning shot will grace the cover of Enjoy sometime in 2010. We’ll also present our four runners up with some impressive prizes. Check our website www.enjoymagazine.net for the fine print, and then go out and get creative!

But before you do, we invite you to sit back, relax and enjoy what is the highlight of our month – flipping through these pages and getting to know our North State a little bit better. On our birthday and always, it’s on the house!

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Dear Friend It’s hard to believe, I know, but it’ true. Last year, more Americans were killed by prescription drugs than by guns, AIDS, suicides and terrorists combined… But we will get to that in a minute. Ten years ago something happened to me that changed my life forever. A long time family friend called and told me she had terrible pain shooting down her leg, not to mention headaches so bad she had to take eight Advil a day just to make it through work and she was beginning to have digestive trouble (probably due to all the Advil). After I did an examination and took some films, I adjusted her spine and put her on a corrective care plan. Immediately things began to happen. The pain in her leg was gone and within a few weeks she wasn’t having the headaches. And since Advil was a thing of the past, Mexican food was back. But even more amazing was her cat allergies that had bothered her since childhood seemed to vanish and she hadn’t used an inhaler for symptoms of asthma in years! She could now live her life without the limits of pain and sickness. I say this experienced changed my life because this wonderful friend became my wife and mother of my children. Seeing the difference those simple, specific adjustments made in her life has made me confident and passionate in my profession which is chiropractic. Now as for my children, Kennedy, Madison, and Patrick, they were adjusted within the first hour of birth. They obviously didn’t complain about neck pain or back pain, I adjusted them to keep them healthy…as with all the hundreds of children I care for in my office. You see, it’s not normal for kids to get ear infections, asthma, allergies or a number of other illnesses we see clear up in my office everyday. When the nervous system is working correctly, your internal resistance and healing powers are enhanced. A healthy family does not rely on medication to make them well. My family does not take medication to seek health and we don’t have a “medicine chest” in our home. Due to years of advertising saturation from the pharmaceutical companies, most Americans seek health from outside-in and most families have a “medicine chest” filled with an average of 16 different medications. In an average year, the World Health Organization (WHO) reports over 2.2 million US hospital patients experienced adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to prescribed medications. Approximately 7.5 million unnecessary medical and surgical procedures are performed annually in the US, while approximately 8.9 million Americans are hospitalized unnecessarily. Last year, the WHO reported 783,936 deaths due to medications people took… and 160,000 were when the drugs were prescribed correctly. More people died last year from medication than at Pearl Harbor and Vietnam. Amazing, huh? If drugs make people well, then those who take the most should be the healthiest, but this simply isn’t the case.

Many people are beginning to understand that health comes from within. This is why chiropractic helps so many people. You see, GOD created a body that can heal itself. Your body doesn’t need any help: it just can’t have any interference. With Chiropractic, we don’t add anything to the body, or take anything from it. We find interference in the nervous system and remove it, thus enhancing the healing capabilities of the body. We get tremendous

results…it really is as simple as that. Here’s what some of our patients have to say: “I originally came in because of back problems. I told Dr. Kremer of my seizures-grandmal and petitemal. I have had seizures for over 40 years. I had seen many physicians and neurologists with no results in 40 years. The medications only covered symptoms and made things unpredictable. In seeing Dr. Kremer, I have had only 3 seizures, very, very mild ones, in 3 years and have found I have a normal life, to be able to do ordinary things without fear. I can ride a horse again and take long walks.”(S. Cook) “I had back and neck pains. In the early 1990’s it was caused by hard work and old age. It was severe enough I couldn’t sleep at times. My results with Dr. Kremer have been great! Dr. Kremer’s treatments have kept me from having back surgery. It’s great not to have so much pain.” (K. Bennett) “I had back and hip problems for about four to five years after I slipped on some cooking grease and have had problems with my back going out disabling

me from walking or even moving at all at times. I also had allergies and asthma that was making me prone to ear infections and severe colds. I had never been treated by another physician or chiropractor. My mother-in-law referred me to Dr. Kremer. Over time, I have had an increase in mobility, my ear infections have stopped, and less intense allergies.” (D. Retzalf) Being a chiropractor can be tough because there’s a host of so called experts out there. They tell people a lot of things that are just plain ridiculous about our profession…usually it’s “My neighbor’s sister’s friend said…” Let me ask you, do you make your health care decisions based on honest facts or biased opinions? Interesting question, isn’t it? NOW… Find out for yourself and benefit from our AMAZING OFFER. Look, it shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg to correct your health. You are going to write a check to someone for your health care expenses, you might as well write one for a lesser amount for chiropractic. When you mention this article within 2 weeks of receiving this offer, you’ll receive our entire new patient exam for $17. That’s our full exam, with x-rays… the whole ball of wax. This exam would cost you $239 any other time. Further care is very affordable and you’ll be happy to know, that I have affordable family plans. You see I’m not trying to seduce you to come and see me with the low startup fees, only to make it up with high fees after that. Further care is very important to consider when making your choice of doctors. Hight costs can add up very quickly. By federal law, this offer excludes Medicare and Medi-cal beneficiaries. Great care at a great fee. Please, I hope there is no misunderstanding about the quality of care just because I am offering a lower exam fee. I utilize several different adjusting techniques in my office to better serve you. If you prefer manual techniques or Activator, it makes no difference to me. I’m here to serve you and to make a difference in your life. I’ve been entrusted to take care of tiny babies to 98 year olds for over 10 years now. I’m just offering this low fee to help more people. Our assistants are great and absolutely full of love. Our offices are both friendly and warm and we try our best to make you feel at home. We have a wonderful service offered at an exceptional fee with three different locations toserve you. We are open six days each week. Call today for an appointment! We can help you.

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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.

Melissa Gulden: Melissa earned her B.A. in journalism and M.A. in English from CSU, Chico. She spent time in Las Vegas, working as a college English instructor and magazine editor. She is also a certified MAC makeup artist and worked in the fashion industry. Melissa now teaches at University Preparatory School in Redding.

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.

Sandie Tillery: A country girl recently transplanted into city life, Sandie Tillery 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.

Michael O’Brien: A 15-year resident of Shasta County, Michael is a Humboldt State University graduate and sales and marketing professional. Frequent travel has allowed him to realize there is no place like the North State, where he enjoys spending time with his wife and kids, and the great people of our beautiful area.

Beth K. Maxey: A grateful recipient of second chances and new beginnings, Beth appreciates working under kitty supervision from her Red Bluff home office. She’s worked in marketing and communications for non-profit, public sector, and corporate entities. A native Midwesterner, she and husband Tony enjoy exploring the North State.

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.

Jamie Weil: A Cottonwood native, Jamie earned a B.A. in English Literature from UCLA and M.A. in teaching from Occidental College. She is thrilled to have returned to Cottonwood with her family after a 26-year sabbatical. She currently works as a freelance writer and is rewriting her first novel, First Break.

Gwen Lawler Tough: Gwen has loved to write ever since she was a girl growing up in the Midwest. She has a B.A. in English Literature, and has worked in television journalism. A Shasta County resident for seven years, she is married and the proud mom of two sons.

Wyatt Olson: A Mount Shasta native, Wyatt has called Redding his home for the last 6 years. He is now a sophomore at the University of Portland majoring in Chemistry and Environmental Science. An avid photographer, he was awarded the North American Nature Photographer’s Association High School Scholarship, an honor that he shared with only nine other students from across the country.

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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through the back wall of the family’s garage. “But I fixed the transmission,” he says, smiling. Tomaino has always enjoyed repairing cars because of the satisfaction of completing a job, and the riddle of solving what went wrong. “It’s complicated,” he says. “You get into a car and it could be any one of 800 things.” Back when he first met Joyce, something else was complicated. He didn’t know how to read or write. Tomaino always had a knack for looking at a picture or a machine and knowing what was wrong with it. But words didn’t make much sense. After meeting Joyce, he told her about his illiteracy. She told him, “No problem. I’ll teach you.” “I had him read a Bible scripture to me every morning and that helped,” Joyce says. “Later on, he had a tutor and then I got him Hooked on Phonics. It was a lot of hard work for him, but he was determined. Now he reads pretty darn good. “I’ve always admired him for being humble enough as a grown man to admit that he couldn’t read, and then wanting to learn how.” Today, Tomaino still reads to his wife every morning. He occasionally reads scriptures at church. Sometimes he feels like one of his own art pieces - a discarded guy shaped into something special by a lovely woman. “She’s just been so good,” he says. “She’s everything to me. We’ve been married for 22 years and it feels like we’ve only been married a couple of months. I don’t do anything without talking to her.” Joyce Tomaino describes it this way: “I just thought he was one of the nicest men I ever met in my life,” she says. “He’s still just as nice a person as he was when I first met him. I kept waiting for the other half to show up, but it never did. He just kept being that nice man.” And Tomaino will never forget the fire from ’86. He still looks at pictures of it and, once a year, plays a video that someone shot while the large building was engulfed in flames. A visitor asks him why. “I don’t know,” he says. “All I wanted to do was die after that fire. Maybe I do it to remind me to not go into debt. Maybe to remind me that your life can change so quickly.” With Joyce’s help, Bruno Tomaino rose from the ashes of that fire. Today, it’s their love that continues to burn brightly.

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Who doesn’t get a thrill seeing a shooting star streaking across the nighttime sky? That same thrill is available during the day, thanks to some digital technology housed at the North State’s only astronomy public education center. Students can revel in the excitement of a fiery meteorite or asteroid at 10 am on a school day. David Ewart, director of the Schreder Planetarium, watches it happen on a regular basis. “Kids can come out in the middle of the day and see the stars. I’ve had to stop the show because kids get so jacked up at seeing a shooting star,” Ewart says. “If you can get kids hooting and hollering from looking at the galaxy, that’s big,” adds Richard Glass, a planetarium staff member who taught at Black Butte Elementary for 25 years. Founded in 1979 and operated by the Shasta County of Education, Schreder Planetarium is big. And it needs to be, considering it’s a place to reflect on our place in the universe, study heavenly bodies and explore galaxies millions of light-years from Earth. The planetarium seats 65 in comfortable reclining chairs that allow observers to take in vivid three-dimensional digital displays

projected onto a 30-foot, 360-degree domed ceiling and accompanied by a surround sound stereo system. It’s an exhilarating encounter enjoyed each year by between 7,000 and 10,000 students from schools in nine North State counties. Adults have been enjoying planetarium shows for years, too. Schreder Planetarium is open to the public two to four evenings a month for professionally produced 90-minute shows with titles like “Secrets of the Sun,” “Stars of the Pharaohs” and “Wonders of the Universe.” For Ewart, who has worked closely with NASA, the planetarium’s chief role is as a science education center where kids in kindergarten through high school can be immersed in an environment that borders on sensory overload as science, space and history come alive. “It’s not like looking at a flat piece of paper,” Ewart says. “It gets them to understand time and space. It’s way big, the universe.” Astronomy “is the glue that holds all the sciences together, yet it’s kind of forgotten,” says Ewart, who doubles as the coordinator of science programs through the Shasta County Office of Education. By bringing the lights down and bringing up images from the state-of-the-art Evans & Sutherland Digistar 3 projection system, Ewart takes students across the veil of the night sky to reveal the solar system,

constellations and distant galaxies. There’s plenty to teach the young stargazers. “Kids think the sun is moving and not the Earth. It’s an egocentric thing: we are the Earth, everything revolves around us,” Ewart says with a chuckle. Ewart points out the Earth is 93 million miles from the sun, placing the blue planet in the “happy zone” between boiling and freezing. He also explains how the Earth’s moon is bigger than Pluto and could be considered a planet in its own right. In addition to developing summer astronomy and robotics camps, Ewart has worked hard to turn the planetarium into a valuable resource for teachers as well by helping to secure grant funding for the Science Model Academy for Reflective Teaching (SMART) program. The SMART program provides teachers in the third through eighth grades an opportunity to bolster their science teaching skills by participating in a model academy incorporating resources at the planetarium and Shasta College in partnership with Chico State University. As a discretionary program of the Shasta County Office of Education, the future of Schreder Planetarium is uncertain, Ewart says. To help ensure continued operation, a fund has been established at the Shasta Regional Community Foundation. For additional ways to help the planetarium, visit www.schrederplanetarium.com. •

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really care about the community.” Participating businesses will feature snacks, drawings and special offers throughout the day. This year, each will serve up a party dish – appetizer, dessert, you name it – to give you ideas for holiday parties. Love the dish? Take home the recipe. Those who visit all 12 stores will be entered into a grand prize drawing – a gift certificate from every one of the stores. At your first stop, you’ll get a map of all locations and a “passport bag” with stickers from each shop. As you visit the shops, your bag will be filled with gifts and recipes. Participating shops offer a diverse selection of gift items for everyone on your list. Home décor, locally made jewelry, children’s toys, garden items, edible delights and more are sold in ShopHop stores. You’ll also find the friendly faces and truly invested employees – often the owners themselves – who want you to be so delighted with your shopping experience that you’ll become a regular customer.

“This is our store,” Ernst says. “We want a person to find something they’re going to like so they come back again. Kimberly Nicole (from Kimberly Nicole Boutique) knows everything she’s bought, so she’ll say, ‘That shirt will go good with this belt buckle over here.’ We love to help people with ideas.” And if you’re a “wait ‘til Christmas Eve” type of shopper, come on out anyway, Ernst says. “It’s early enough that you can go out and get some ideas rolling.” ShopHop is not just an event – it’s an association of local small, non-franchised businesses that each bring in less than $1 million in annual gross revenue. They participate in monthly meetings and help with cooperative marketing efforts. They also created and sponsor events such as the Cottage Tour, which benefited the Shasta Women’s Refuge. “If we don’t carry what the customer is looking for, I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked up a phone number and Google-mapped directions to another store for a customer,” Ernst says. “I want them to find what they’re looking for, not just sell them something.” ShopHop meetings often end up functioning like a support group, as participants help each other come up with creative ways to woo customers, save money or overcome other challenges posed when running a small business. Working together gives each shopkeeper greater reach with limited marketing and advertising budgets, Ernst says. “You can get a bigger bang for your buck when you work as a group,” she says. For instance, many have started running in-store special events to make the shopping experience more special – like California Décor Store’s Aloha Fridays, Kimberly Nicole Boutique’s Fashionista Fridays, tea parties at Antique Cottage and mimosa gardening parties at Wild Thyme. “It’s like going to a party,” she says. And their true competitors aren’t other locally owned small businesses, she says – it’s the corporate giants that siphon local dollars out of the area. More information is available at shophopredding.com, on ShopHop’s Facebook page and at participating businesses. •

hopImagine a holiday shopping experience that didn’t involve elbowing your way through jam-packed aisles and going toe-to-toe with harried fellow shoppers who are typically nice people, but under these circumstances look like they might unleash some serious cart-rage if you dare to grab that last Wii Fit box off the shelf. Fellow shoppers, Santa has heard your wish, and a local team of retail elves wants to help free you from this yuletide nightmare. The 3rd annual Holiday ShopHop from 9 am to 6 pm Nov. 7 is an opportunity to explore local businesses, meet their shopkeepers and start (dare we suggest, finish?) your holiday shopping in a fun, festive, friendly environment. Bonus: Your dollars stay right here in the North State’s economy. “We want people to know that you can find cool, unique gifts that aren’t from a big-box store,” says Jeanette Ernst, owner of Infinite Designs in Redding and a member of ShopHop. “It’s the local businesses that

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Red Bluff residents always know when the third week in October hits, even without looking at the calendar. Fiddlers stroll the streets playing lively old-time tunes and show up at shopping centers and meetings to entertain and entice listeners. It’s Western Open time. Fiddlers from across the country have gathered in the North State for the Western Open Fiddle Championships since 1982 when it began in Redding under the sponsorship of the California State Old Time Fiddle Association District 6. The competition moved to Red Bluff in 1996 after a District 6 committee member suggested that Red Bluff residents Tex Ash and Sharon Barrett might want to co-chair the event. “‘Move it to Red Bluff and we’ll think about it,’ I said,” says Barrett, “and they said ‘OK.’ We’ve been doing it ever since. It was a highly successful contest in Redding, but it found a home in the community here that it never had there.”

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Ash, a bass player, has emceed the Western Open since it began; Barrett organizes and coordinates it. The event committee includes 26 others – some who have been with the event since it began 27 years ago – who oversee food, judges, sales, publicity, sponsors and other tasks essential to the smooth running of a three-day contest involving tight scheduling and some 120 performers. The event opens Thursday, Oct. 22, at the Tehama County District Fairgrounds with a concert featuring John Marshall with Billy and the Hillbillies, a featured group at Disneyland’s Frontierland for many years. “The show is filled with humor that is fit for little kids and adults alike,” says Ash. Tickets are $10. Two ‘Hillbillies’ will serve as Western Open contest judges; another will emcee the popular jukebox events on Friday and Saturday evening, Oct. 23 and 24. Competition gets underway at 8 am Friday, with contestants allotted just four minutes each to demonstrate their skill. “The evening schedule runs on time,” says Ash, “but the daily schedule can be bizarre. It’s completely contestant-driven.” Contestants can compete in more than one event within age categories, such as individual playing, picking, twin fiddles and jukebox. The contest is open to the public; a complete schedule is on the organization’s Web site, www.westernopenfiddle.com. It’s not uncommon to see whole families onstage during competition – adults accompanying contestants as young as 5 years old in the PeeWee events, or parents and children together in the jukebox events or twin fiddles competition. “Fiddlers are more family-oriented,” says Ash. “I’ve never been in an organization that has such camaraderie between little kids and adults.” Most competitions are like big family reunions, he says, since fiddling families enjoy traveling to contests or fiddling schools. Fiddlers also love to share their tunes with each other. Pat Scott, a Red Bluff resident and Western Open committee member, started fiddling in 1981 and says one of the best ways to learn new tunes is “me to me.” “They play a few notes, you play a few notes, they add more. You watch their fingers, watch the bowing. You learn by ear and by building muscle memory (where to put your fingers on the strings),” she says. “You build a relationship with your musical partner.” Scott’s daughter Melissa (Copenhaver) Lincoln began playing by ear when she was 6 years old and went on to win numerous contests; Scott began to teach fiddle to her granddaughters when they were 2. They all compete in the Western Open. Barrett adds, “There is a complete acceptance and willingness to learn from anybody – a lack of ego.” Fiddlers don’t have to read music to play tunes; most use tablature diagrams, or fiddle tab: a picture of the fiddle strings with the top line indicating the highest-sounding string. Numbers on the appropriate lines show the string and finger placement for any note. So what’s the difference between bluegrass and fiddling? Bluegrass has more vocals and ensembles almost always include mandolin or banjo leads. Fiddling may include banjos or mandolins, but not in a

predominant role, says Ash. Fiddlers also try to preserve and perpetuate old-time square dance, polka, schottische, waltzes and jigs that people have danced to for decades. Bluegrass came out of the Appalachian sound – think Alison Krauss or Ricky Skaggs. What about the difference between fiddle and violin? Ash, Barrett and Scott laugh. One definition: a violin is carried in a case; a fiddle in a gunnysack. Another definition is freedom: when you play violin, you play the composer’s music, but on a fiddle, you have the freedom to put your own feelings into the music. “The fiddle dances – it should make you want to dance. The violin sings,” says Ash, with a smile. •

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John C. Fitzpatrick’s family story sounds like a history of Redding. Tales told around the kitchen table revolve around the larger-than-life people whose risk-taking, sweat and hard work helped make Redding the community what it is today. Foremost among these characters is Fitzpatrick’s late father, also named John Fitzpatrick. Born in 1909, the elder Fitzpatrick was the oldest of five children living in their parents’ 16-by-24-foot homestead in the Malibu Hills. When his dad decided to get out of the “crowded” Los Angeles area in 1922, he sold the homestead and bought a 1913 Cadillac. This vehicle, stuffed to the running boards, carried the Fitzpatricks and all their worldly possessions to Redding. Fitzpatrick grew up milking cows. At age 24, he went into business with State Senator John McColl, now known as the “father” of Shasta Dam. McColl owned a soda fountain downtown, but was spending most of his time in Sacramento. Fitzpatrick had taken a refrigeration course in the days of iceboxes, and was just the man to run the operation. Fitzpatrick experimented with all kinds of ice cream flavors in an alley garage behind the store, and Depression or not, McColl’s ice cream became the hit of the town. Fitzpatrick hired kids to take ice cream wagons packed with salted ice all over town. He then took the business to a new level by building a large-scale dairy company with McColl as his partner. McColl tragically died in a car accident in 1938, and Fitzpatrick continued to run the business for McColl’s widow. In 1958, Fitzpatrick bought out the McColls’ share in the business to become the sole owner of McColl’s Dairy products. Their product line included milk and cottage cheese, but their best seller was ice cream. Gary Rogers of Dreyers Ice Cream once told John C. Fitzpatrick, “Yours was the only spot in California where we weren’t the dominant brand.” The young John C. Fitzpatrick told friends, “I would never work for my Dad…. I had things all figured out.” He graduated from Santa Clara University with a degree in mechanical engineering and went on to get an MBA from Northwestern University in Chicago. He worked for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in New Mexico for three years, and learned that “the drafting table was not for me.”

What was for him was a girl in Los Angeles. While he was on a work-related trip to Los Angeles, his college friends fixed him up with a blind date to a prom that they were all attending. John won Betty Ahern’s hand in marriage in 1962, after three years and many 11-hour trips down Highway 99. Their four children are now grown. He joined his dad’s company in 1962, and helped McColl’s grow all over the North State. But with the passing years, the dairy business “got tougher and tougher.” The elder Fitzpatrick sold McColl’s to Crystal Dairy in 1985. John C. Fitzpatrick says his father was never afraid to try something new, and when they bought the local Pepsi Cola franchise at a court sale in 1966, they were off on a new adventure. John C. Fitzpatrick worked hard building up their new business, and soon the Pepsi brand had overtaken Coke in the North State. During these years, both Fitzpatricks served their community in countless civic and service organizations. Both served as presidents of the main Redding Rotary. Both contributed significantly to Bishop Quinn High School and St. Francis Middle School. John and Betty contributed to and served Turtle Bay and Northern Valley Catholic Social Service in many ways. They donated to the new Redding Library, and were instrumental in getting the Redding Air Show “off the ground” for many years. “John and Betty have given their heart and soul to this community,” says Ken Gifford of Gifford Construction. “He and Betty both are the most generous, community spirited people I know,” adds friend Bob Anderson. In 2005, the City of Redding bestowed the Philanthropist of the Year award on the couple. Quietly, they have shared not only their worldly goods but also themselves with many people and organizations in the north state. The Fitzpatricks are now retired; John C. Fitzpatrick sold Pepsi to the Pepsi Cola Company in 2001. He now enjoys working out with a personal trainer and going to old sports car rallies and vintage “racing” events all over the state. Like his dad, he is not just a businessman; he is a man for his community. •

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encouraging others along the way. “You have to have fun with it or

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finish my treatments, I would miss the now,” she said. “One day I was in the shower and I ran my fingers

through my hair and out some of it came. There was no resistance to the hair coming loose, so my family

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Dramatic contrasts of color and function greet visitors and members to EveryDay Fitness, one of 2nd Saturday ArtHop’s regular venues. The work of local artists graces the walls and reflects the owners’ efforts to “expand things that bring us joy in life.” This month, EveryDay Fitness will host dancers Denise Mannion and Annie Dean, who will perform to the world and Middle Eastern music of Pangia.The gym and training facility was opened in February by visionary owner Ed White and his partner, Larry Fuqua. White’s office in the loft area overlooks the spacious 21,000 square feet of carefully renovated and creatively designed workout space. He credits Aztec Construction owner and his wife, Kelly and Alexis Asbe, “for making my dream come true.” It was a whirlwind adventure from the time he left his old location and opened the doors of the new facility on Athens Avenue. Characteristically upbeat and enthusiastic, White describes EveryDay Fitness as much more than a gym. The loft lounge is regularly filled with stretched and relaxed patrons visiting after serious workouts in the fully outfitted training gym below. Often, members bring goodies to share, while others occasionally come in just to socialize. White has created a “club” that invites more than a quick in-and-out workout. He and Fuqua spend every day at the club. They know everyone who comes in. Hospitality is a hallmark of the “way I do business,” White says. Even in this difficult economy, the business is flourishing. The club now is home to the chiropractic services of Dr. Maria Salas, and The Day Spa, offering

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massage and skin care. White credits some of the continual growth in business to referrals from local physicians, as well as the free monthly nutrition seminars he offers to the public the last Saturday of each month. He brings to the business his long career in fitness training and management experience beginning in San Diego, where he trained athletes at San Diego State University and several professional bodybuilders. He worked in local gyms and eventually managed one of Jack LaLanne’s Health Spas. When White moved to Redding, his career took an interesting turn with specialized training to work with spine injury patients. Now, with a following of faithful private clients, White enjoys sharing his vision and his talents as a trainer with a growing community who are seeking health and wellness, along with a good workout. White reflects warmly about his Greek heritage and the single mother who raised him. The gifts of hospitality and generosity that she instilled then are now very much a part of his efforts to invite others to share not only his space and his talents, but his sense of embracing the hopes and dreams of others. It is no surprise then that recent fundraising events held at the club have been such a great success. The High Contrast Benefit, a black-tie event held in May and co-sponsored with Hanna Gallery, raised funds for the ASPCA. A flipside event, “Jimmy Buffett, It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere,” offered an opportunity to attend a dress-down party in September that garnered monies for another worthy cause. 2nd Saturday ArtHop and EveryDay Fitness make a good match. White supports artists as an integral part of his business. “It dresses up the club,” he says, while giving the artists a perfect gallery where many have found buyers for their work. White early on dedicated space for a small permanent gallery where a friend displays her work, and he has invited others to hang their art on the massive club walls. ArtHop opens just one more opportunity for White to support his community. Belly dancer Denise Mannion has trained through the years with many of the legends of belly dancing in the Bay Area. She performed in Troupe Mandala along with friend Jinjer Rader and others for more than 20 years, competing and winning troupe, duet and soloist competitions. Today, Mannion pursues her craft with passion and skill as she presents a “visual expression of the music.” “When you are dancing, it’s not about you, it’s about the music and how you respect and interpret it to your audience,” says Rader. Mannion performs and teaches in Mt. Shasta and as an adjunct instructor at College of the Siskiyous in Weed. Dancer Annie Dean will join Mannion in the dance during October’s ArtHop performance. Pat Olson, Mannion’s husband, is the centerpiece of the musical group Pangia, well-known throughout belly dancing and world music circles. Olson plays the oud, a stringed instrument of ancient origin that he says is considered the “prince of instruments.” With Mannion on the keyboard and guest drummers, Pangia performs up and down both the West and East Coasts. They are regular features at Rakkasah, the world’s largest belly dancing festival, held annually in the Bay area. Drawing on influences from around the world, especially Middle Eastern countries, Pangia plays traditional as well as original music written and arranged by Olson. Olson will perform solo during the ArtHop while Mannion dances. They have recorded six CDs. More information about Pangia can be found at www.pangiaraks.com . Enjoy the performances of Annie Dean, Denise Mannion and Pangia during October’s 2nd Saturday ArtHop at EveryDay Fitness, 2345 Athens Avenue. Information about EveryDay Fitness is available at www.edfitness.com or by calling (530) 246-1902. •

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Tucked away on a rural Tehama County road is a golden treasure – richly flavored Pacific Sun extra virgin olive oil pressed from locally grown, hand-harvested fruit from trees that have been in the area for decades. Pacific Sun Gourmet is part of Pacific Farms and Orchards, Inc., a family business owned by Jane Flynn and managed by her son Brendon Flynn, which grows plums, almonds and walnuts for Sunsweet, Blue Diamond and Diamond. The farm was founded in 1952 by Flynn’s grandfather Bernard, a San Diego soap company owner, who bought land in Vina which he later sold to monks who established the Cistercian-Trappist Abbey of New Clairvaux. So he bought more land on Gerber’s east side and began farming, requiring his children to spend summers working there. In the early 1970s, his son Vincent founded Pacific Farms and Orchards, Inc., which he ran until he died in a plane crash in 1986.

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With help and encouragement from her family and the farm’s loyal employees, his wife Jane Flynn continued the business, focusing on the orchard crops. And when Brendon Flynn, agribusiness degree from Cal Poly in hand, came home after working several years in the Salinas Valley, he had something new in mind. “I wanted to find a product to directly market from farm to fork – a direct consumer product,” he says. He had to look only as far as the old Mission olive trees lining the road to the family farm: a new olive oil industry was beginning to re-emerge in California. Pacific Sun produced 200 gallons of oil in 2002 and began its own milling in 2004. Flynn partners with local growers to buy fruit for oil in addition to hand-harvesting the old trees on the family’s land, and considers relationships both with local producers and the product’s consumers of key importance to the company. “Our desire is to connect people to where their food comes from,” says Flynn. “Our product sells best when we talk to people. We prefer to have that connection with consumers.” North state residents, food buyers, and chefs are invited to meet owners and employees, pick olives in the orchards, watch the milling process and sample olive oil during “Love at First Crush” on Sunday, Nov. 8, from 11 am to 3 pm. Families are encouraged to attend the free event, says sales manager Leslie Hoyt. Activities include tours of the mill, hay rides, olive picking, music, olive oil tasting (and free sample bottles while supply lasts) and wine tasting from local wineries. Food will be available for purchase. “People always say they didn’t know how long it takes to fill a bucket (with olives),” says Hoyt. The open house ties in with the company’s core values of sustainability, health, and quality for its employees, products and community, and with Flynn’s desire to forge relationships with his product’s users. New this year is a community milling opportunity, where people can bring olives from their own trees for crushing and then share the resulting oil based on the amount of olives they contribute. “People can bring between 20 to 500 pounds of olives,” says Hoyt. Olives will be received from 9 am to 1 pm on Sunday, Nov. 8, as part of the “Love at First Crush” event, or on Sunday, Dec. 6. Milling is 50 cents per pound. “This should add another level of merriment,” Hoyt says, smiling. Pacific Sun’s artisan extra virgin olive oil can vary in taste from year to year and batch to batch. “We handcraft our blends according to what nature gives us every year,” Flynn says. “There are small variances, but there is a difference.” “It keeps it interesting,” agrees Hoyt. “We have notes on each barrel – the fruitiness, the pungency.” The company can trace its products back to a location in each orchard. The millhouse and production facility is certified organic by the California Certified Organic Farmers. Flynn and his employees are proud of several recent awards for their signature blends, including best of show and best in class gold and silver medal awards from the 2009 Los Angeles International Extra Virgin Olive Oil Competition, plus two gold medals and one silver medal from the 2009 Yolo County Fair California Olive Oil competition. •


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Anyone who has driven through downtown Redding has likely noticed the large red sign emblazoned with, “Gerlinger Steel and Supply,” but few realize that inside those retro brick buildings operates one of the oldest companies in Redding. Gerlinger Steel opened 80 years ago and has been involved with some of the most groundbreaking and important construction projects in Northern California, such as Shasta Dam, Keswick Dam, Interstate 5 and more. Fred Gerlinger Sr. and his son, E.E. “Bert” Gerlinger, founded this landmark Redding business as Gerlinger Foundry and Machine Works in 1929. The poor health of Fred’s wife encouraged the family

to move from Salem, Ore., shortly before this. They came for the hot, dry climate in hopes that it would help bring her back to good health. “It must have worked because she lived to be nearly 100 years old,” says current company president Fred Gerlinger, Bert’s son. The early 1930s were not an easy time for anyone, and for Gerlinger, cash was short. According to Fred Gerlinger, Bert was once in danger of not making payroll back then because a customer owed him money. Turns out that this customer had the same problem as Bert - his client hadn’t paid yet. Being insistent, Bert went to his customer’s customer and got the same story. “So he kept following the trail,

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getting the same story every time, until he finally got someone to pay, and that person paid the next, and so on until his customer paid him, allowing Bert to make payroll.” As the company matured, the types of services and products that it offered changed and evolved. In the 1930s, when a client failed to pay on several gold dredgers, the company began mining gold with them for a short time to make up money lost. The 1940s through the 1970s brought many infrastructure projects to Northern California, including Shasta, Trinity, Keswick and Oroville Dams, Interstate 5, Highway 44 and various irrigation projects. Each resulted in business for Gerlinger. In the early 1990s, the company expanded dramatically by opening branches in Sacramento and Nevada City to better serve the Central Valley region. Since then, the foundry has closed because of the introduction of EPA regulations, but Gerlinger has expanded its machine shop and other offerings. It now sells a variety of steel and aluminum products. Also, its extensive welding and fabrication shops can process the metals to a customer’s exact specification. It also offers an assortment of industrial supplies fasteners, pipe fittings, ornamental iron and even machinery. Gerlinger Steel and Supply is still family owned and operated, with its third and fourth generations of family in the business. Fred

and his wife Jo run the company together, and their son Tim is vice president. Their youngest son Scott also helps out his brother at the Sacramento shop. The business employs about 65 people among its three locations. More and more businesses are changing their products to keep up with the rapid adoption of “green” materials, but as Fred Gerlinger says, “Metal sales and metal recycling is one of the original ‘green’ businesses, as most metals are easily recycled and many products can be made from metal.” In fact, 95% percent of all the metals that Gerlinger sells are recycled. Also, the company’s delivery trucks have nearly tripled in fuel mileage in just 25 years and can haul more than ever, helping to keep fewer vehicles on the road. Even with those improvements, Gerlinger has also made it a mission to cut down further on waste and trash within the company, reusing everything. “We even use the flip sides of office paper before discarding them in the recycle bins,” says Fred. They’ve reduced their trash from 16 yards a week to only four, even while product sales increased substantially. Many things have changed in Redding over the years, but one thing will always stay the same, Fred Gerlinger promises: “As with the past 80 years, we will continue to work with customers to serve their present needs and adjust our goods and services to provide for their future needs.” •


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After a rare summer burst of rain, the casual observer along a forest path notices the glint of black glass. The edge of a boot uncovers a Native American arrowhead. The signs of the earliest inhabitants of Northern California lay hidden underneath the years of forest growth and await discovery by those with keen eyes. In 1941, along Little Castle Creek, flowing down from Castle Crags, teenagers Willis Cleaver and Robert Eller were hiking when they stumbled upon a petroglyph in a granite slab. The symbol was a hand with an eye in the palm, the letter M underneath the engraving. They kept their discovery between friends until the gossip reached Forest Ranger Frank Bascom, who began an investigation. The Castle Crags are among the oldest natural monuments in Northern California. The steep, granite pillars form a giant’s palace which looms 6,000 feet over the valley. Carpets of green skirt the foundation as clouds tease the spires. Part of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, the Crags dominate the view, providing a spectacular pairing with Mt. Shasta in the background. Twenty-eight miles of pine-scented hiking trails meander through the park. The variety of wildlife and flora is as varied as the images in Symbol Rocks. Both the Castle Crags and the glyphs are complicated, yet delicate, capturing a primitive beauty. Archaeologists began to investigate the glyphs’ similarities to etchings from Central and South America, comparing them to others as far away as India. Up the trail, the first symbols are seen on Cleft Rock. There is an all-seeing eye in the center of a hand, pigmented with red coloring.

Other symbols follow: a serpent, and a woman’s hand. Higher up, a second rock contains more symbols, and is joined by yet a third granite boulder with more symbols, including an Egyptian Ankh. The signs are curious in that they do not match other Native American art in the area. People weave tapestries of experience through the Crags. Rock climbers, fishermen, campers and day hikers build memories among the glacier-smoothed peaks. The petroglyphs fit within the long history of activity through the area, which began with the Native Americans, continued with a well-used pioneer toll road, and now includes the Pacific Crest Trail, which brings hundreds on foot through the Castle Crags each year. Symbol Rocks remains an attraction. However, the absence of lichen growth in the carvings and the necessity of tungsten steel cutting tools to create the images finally uncovered the truth. Rather than an ancient relic, they were a recent creation by a group of local boys. The carvings may be a hoax, but the majesty of the Crags and canyon with Symbols Rocks are worth a visit. For like the first Americans and those who have followed here, one should know that the beauty of the Crags is the true treasure to be found. •

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CouNTrY kiTCheNStarted in Dunsmuir in the 1970’s, Country Kitchen shortly relocated to Redding. Lin and Charlie Moss bought the restaurant in 1993 and proudly continue the tradition of serving homemade breads, cinnamon rolls, biscuits & gravy like Grandma made and gourmet soups in a friendly family atmosphere. Nominated best breakfast by Record Searchlight readers. 1099 Hilltop Drive, Redding; (530) 223-5438

PosT offiCe salooNSince 1976, the Post Office Saloon & Grill has been downtown Redding’s friendliest destination for good times, great food a full selection of beer, wine and cocktails. Famous for the P.O. Burger and lively Bloody Mary’s, the Post Office also features nightly specials and live music on weekends. 1636 Market St., Redding; (530) 246-2190

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ | by Lana Granfors

Slice the beef into four ½-inch-thick pieces. Use the teeth side of a metal meat mallet (if desired, top each piece with plastic wrap) to pound thin, to about ¼-inch thick. This will tenderize this cut of meat. Place the pieces in a shallow bowl (I use a ziploc bag) and pour 1 cup of buttermilk and 1 tsp. hot sauce over the pieces. Season with salt and pepper. Marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight. In a medium shallow platter or dish, add the flour, garlic powder, onion powder, cumin, salt and pepper. In another shallow plate, lightly beat the eggs and add 1 cup buttermilk and 1 teaspoon hot sauce; season with salt and pepper. Remove the steaks from the marinade and shake off the excess buttermilk. Dredge each piece of meat in the seasoned flour, then in the seasoned buttermilk and back into the flour, allowing excess to drip off. Set out on a rack fitted over a baking sheet and allow to rest in the refrigerator for at least 20 to 25 minutes while you cook the bacon. (Chilling the battered meat will help set the crust.) Now the true Texas version calls for the steak to be cooked in bacon fat as follows, but you can substitute vegetable oil. To cook with bacon, slice the bacon into 1- inch pieces and cook in a large skillet over medium heat until the bacon is crisp. Drain the bacon on paper towels and reserve the fat in the skillet. Cook the steaks in the bacon fat, over medium heat until they are golden brown on each side, about 3-5 minutes per side, adding a bit of vegetable oil if needed. Set aside and keep warm. If using oil, add about 1 inch vegetable oil to the large skillet and heat over medium-high heat to 365 degrees F. Remove steaks and drain on paper towels. Carefully remove some of the fat from the cast iron pan, reserving 1/4 cup. With pan over medium heat, sprinkle in 3 tablespoons of flour and whisk to make a roux, scraping up any brown bits on the bottom of the pan. Once the flour has been fully incorporated and slightly browned (careful not to burn) about one minute, slowly add the buttermilk and milk and continue to whisk until the gravy is nice and thick. Season well with salt and plenty of ground black pepper, then whisk in hot sauce to taste. Place the steaks on a serving platter, top with gravy, garnish with bacon and serve with creamy mashed potatoes and these Southern Black-eyed Peas.

Really good Texas Style Chicken Fried Steak is just too hard to find in restaurants, but luckily, it is pretty easy to make. While it may not be the least-caloric food item, it’s usually not something you have every Friday night. So for a couple of special guys in my life, my son Rusty and our friend, John Bertagnolli, I like to prepare this for their October birthdays. And when it comes to really tasty, tender and crispy “CFS,” the only way to serve it is with creamy milk gravy, seasoned with lots of black pepper and a great side. One of my favorites is flavorful black-eyed peas, which can be made year round, either fresh from the garden or dried from the pantry. This is truly a man-sized meal. So heat up the cast iron skillet, set the table and get ready to stuff your face… this is the real deal, right from Grandma Wood’s recipe file.

Steaks:2 lbs. beef bottom round, trimmed of excess fat 2 – 2 ½ cups all-purpose flour 2 T garlic powder 2 T onion powder Salt and freshly ground black pepper 3 whole eggs, beaten 2 – 3 cups buttermilk Hot sauce, to taste 4 strips bacon or if not using bacon, vegetable oil as directed below

Gravy:3 heaping T all-purpose flour 1 cup buttermilk 1 cup whole milk Salt and freshly ground black pepper Hot sauce, to taste

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4 tomatoes, quartered Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 lemon, juiced 4 green onions, chopped ¼ cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves

Southern Black Eyed Peas Ingredients:

In a large stockpot over medium heat, cook bacon until crisp. Remove the bacon to the paper towel and let drain. In the same pot, add the garlic, bay leaves and dried peas to the bacon fat and stir to combine. Add the tomatoes and pour in 1 quart of the chicken stock. Simmer over medium-low heat for at least 1 hour, adding more stock as needed, and until peas are tender. Option: Transfer 1 to 2 cups of the peas to a blender and puree until smooth (be careful, as peas are hot). Place the blended peas back into the pot and stir. Continue to cook for another 15 minutes. Before plating up, add the lemon juice and stir. Garnish with green onions, cilantro and bacon before serving.

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ceilings are accented with ornate chandeliers, a formal dining area appears fit for a queen’s visit, and the multidimensional exterior has

inspired local artists to capture it on canvas. Yet when Mike Regan walks these halls, he sees his family

history. In the library, his father read volumes of Voltaire that still rest on the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. In the side yard, his sister and brother each took their wedding vows. In the backyard, his

mother plucked apples and pears from a tree’s heavy branches, turning them into applesauce and pies by day’s end. And upstairs, a young Regan played engineer until his wooden trains wore grooves in the sturdy track. The Victorian across the street from the Trinity County Courthouse was built in 1899 by Daniel James Hall, then the district attorney. His wife died in childbirth less than 10 years after he had built the home for her, Regan explains, and Hall sold the house to his successor in the DA’s office, Horace Given, in 1908.


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Meanwhile, a young Edwin J. Regan became enamored with far Northern California while on a hunting trip with his brother, Harold. Edwin saw a job posting for a part-time district attorney on a bulletin board, so he applied. “Given told him, ‘Get up here and you’ve got a job,’” his son, Mike, says. He did just that in 1930. When Given died in 1935, Edwin was elected district attorney – and in 1938, Given’s survivors told him and his wife Julia, “For $2,500, the house is yours – with everything in it.” The stark white home with black composition roofing is encircled by an ivy-cloaked fence. Cone-shaped turrets and a widow’s walk (influenced by the homebuilder’s East Coast ties) help define the roofline. The home serves as a three-dimensional scrapbook of the life that the late Edwin and Julia Regan and their three children created there. Accounting books from the Depression show Edwin’s invoices for legal services rendered in amounts like $4 and $7. They’re displayed atop Julia’s antique desk. Julia moved to Weaverville in 1933 to start her teaching days at Trinity County High School, which all three of her children attended. Son Mike now sits in the chair that Edwin used during his five terms in the State Senate (he resigned his Trinity County District Attorney post in 1948 to assume that position – marking the first time that the house hadn’t been owned by the Trinity County DA). Edwin then served on the Third Appellate District Court of Appeal from 1965 until his retirement in 1987. He died in 1996.

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In the 70-plus years since the home has been in the Regan family, it’s been upgraded to include some modern conveniences – a carriage house gave way to a guest house and garage, and small stoves in every room were replaced with a furnace. Mike’s laptop computer now sits on his mother’s antique desk, and his modern television sits in the frame of the old 1959 Zenith television which was their first set; Mike removed the tube to make room. Textured wallpaper, paintings of long-gone ancestors, and now-antique furniture and décor maintain the home’s historic feel. The library’s treasures include volumes by Edgar Allan Poe, a series titled “Messages and Papers of the President” and much more – some more than a century old. On the wall is Edwin Regan’s framed invitation to John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. The kitchen still has lined flour and sugar bins and a dinner bell that his mother used to tap with a mallet at suppertime. Upstairs is a virtual museum of Regan family history. Attic space tucked behind each of three bedrooms holds a train set from the 1940s, clothing dating back to the early 1900s, and shelves full of children’s books. Dozens of hats rest in their original boxes, including a black top hat in a leather case, worn by an ancestor who Mike says was the first Marine aviator killed in World War II. There are hats from I. Magnin and Saks Fifth Avenue, an old flapper hat – even one that’s a dead ringer for a head of lettuce. The three upstairs bedrooms still maintain some of the character of the children who grew up there. Kathleen’s room includes a dressing table and a hand mirror, where one can picture a young woman making herself up for a night on the town. Mike recently discovered

some of his mother’s nude pencil drawings from her college days, which he framed and hung in this room. Mike’s room looks the most like it did back in the day, with a curio cabinet full of bottles that he collected, race car posters, yearbooks from Trinity High and the University of California at Santa Barbara, his letterman sweater, and Eagle Scout and Order of the Arrow uniforms. Also on the wall? A stuffed woodpecker. Boys will be boys, he says. “When you grow up in Possum Waller, what are you gonna do?” In the hall sits a phone chair, below a still-operational rotary phone that mystifies school-aged visitors who came of age in the era of cell phones. The size of the property has also increased since the home was built. In 1967, the Regans purchased the house next door, which “was in bad shape,” Mike says. They tore it down to create a spacious, landscaped side yard, and hosted Mike’s sister Kathleen’s wedding there in 1967. Many years later, her brother Craig was married in the yard. Despite the magnificence of the home, the yard is where many of Mike Regan’s best memories reside. An enormous walnut tree, more than a century old, shades an outdoor seating area decked with bricks from Weaverville’s historic Union Hotel, which burned down in the 1930s. A flowering pomegranate, rhododendrons and an English garden provide bursts of color, and if you’re looking to hide away, a pair of chairs is set up in a “cave” created by the merging of two enormous holly bushes.

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The area where a school-aged Mike kept his horse and her tack room is now a grassy area perfect for horseshoes or croquet; live bands also set up there when he hosts his annual 4th of July parties (no holiday is more revered in Weaverville than Independence Day). Mike touches the trunk of an apple tree toward the back of the property, and recalls the applesauce and pies that his mother used to make from their harvest. On the other side of the yard, he gestures to another pair of trees. “She planted those trees the day she died,” he says. Mike spent much of his adult life in the Sacramento area; he made a career at PG&E after serving as a U. S Coast Guard combat corpsman and medic in the mid-1960s. After working for Shell Oil Co. in New Orleans and PG&E in Northern California, he retired in the early 1990s and was delighted to come back home. “It’s a time warp of days gone by,” he says. Although Mike and Weaverville have grown up together, he says his hometown still maintains the small-town, friendly flavor that he’s loved for his whole life. Some of his original neighbors still live there. When he walks down the street, he can’t help but bump into someone he knows. He still maintains strong ties to the town as a shareholder and on the Board of Directors of the historic New York Hotel Properties, the home of the New York Saloon and Johnny’s Restaurant. He is a longtime member of the Trinitarianus Chapter of Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus (established in the mining days to “come to the aid and protect wives, widows and orphans”). “A town like this really doesn’t change that much,” he says. And he wouldn’t have it any other way.

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GIVING BACK | story: Sandie Tillery | photos: Julie Eaton



trying to figure a way for Ruby to benefit from it. It is a beautiful idea: granting wishes to our elders, similar to the Make-A-Wish Foundation for terminally ill children. Think about it—making dreams come true in the last years of life; letting seniors revisit cherished places, experience again their favorite activities, or cross off one more item on their bucket lists. “We’re never too old to aspire or set goals. Besides, a dream come true must first start with a dream,” says Julie Eaton, Marquis Care Shasta activities director. Two residents have been granted their wishes at Marquis Care Shasta. Earl, 74, has a need for speed, but now is slowed down by his wheelchair. In earlier years, he raced at Laguna Seca and Sears Point. In July 2008, Marquis Care Shasta made it possible for him to relive his youth when he again slid through the window of a race car at Shasta Raceway Park in Redding. Staff and family members cheered him five times around the half-mile track as he raced at speeds in excess of 100 mph. “I never thought I would do this again!” he exclaimed at the start. 80-year-old Alma wanted to see the world from 10,000 feet above the ground. Dave Everson, owner of Air Shasta, gave Alma the thrill of her life when he took her up in his four-passenger helicopter for a tour of the area, including a view of Shasta Dam that her father helped to build. Earlier in the year, Alma had been chosen 2009 Marquis Care Shasta Rose Queen. First item on her calendar as reigning queen was to experience her dream come true. The program is funded by the Vital Life Foundation, a nonprofit organization founded by Marquis Companies and Consonus Healthcare Services. The foundation’s mission is “to support organizations and programs that provide meaning and vitality in the lives of seniors and staff members living and working in long-term care.” The foundation partners with community and national organizations to raise funds to support such things as providing backpacks and school supplies for local students, the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Ronald McDonald House and the Alzheimer’s Foundation, among others. It is the hallmark of Marquis Companies’ “giving back” philosophy. Eaton, who has the privilege of planning the New Chapters events for the residents in Redding, says their objective is not just to fulfill dreams, but to get to the very heart of residents’ desires. She says they want to “make the last memories the best.” And it is not just her. She and Administrator Jeremy Pantovich involve the whole staff, encouraging them to listen and watch, to be alert as they serve the residents. If an aide or a food server nominates someone, they are invited to participate on some level in the event. “It’s a change in our culture,” Eaton explains of their efforts to get rid of the stigma of the institutional setting. Eaton wants everyone—staff, residents, families—to share in the excitement of the “changing social climate.” I am excited. Join me in discovering how we can make dreams come true for seniors. Information is available at vitallifefoundation.org or by contacting Julie Eaton or Jeremy Pantovich at (530) 222.3630. More New Chapters stories can be found at marquiscompanies.com. •

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