Enjoy Magazine: Northern California Living — September 2021

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

SEPTEMBER 2021

ISSUE 180

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california adventure district 56 System in 35 || Boosting 5 Things Your to doImmune in Shasta County California Adventure District

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31 | The Art of Community with 53 | Make Stop Vesper at Joe’sLodge Giant Orange Reda Bluff in Shasta Lake

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Small Steps for Big Change

31 | Take Your Grilled Cheese to a 28 | For the Love of Goats at Saddleback Ranch Whole New Level

15 25 | Get | AOrganized Lot Takes With Shapea with Littlethe Help Etna Beautification From the ProsProject

38 | Sierra Nevada Red Foxes in Lassen Volcanic National Park

34 51 | AAUW Celebrates 50 Years of | Spring Makeup Declutter Funding Education 73 | The Culprits of Disorganization 43 | September Venues Reopening

13 | My Town: Agata Maruszewski

49 | Todd Deck, Tehama County Library Director

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66 | Find Out More About Molecular Gastronomy 82 | What’s Cookin’— Peanut Butter Cup Crispy Rice Treats

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94 | Giving Back—Odyssey of the Mind 17 | My Town: Ashlee Tate 94 | Downtown Details 59 | Downtown Details 60 | Enjoy the View—Marnie Patchett 62 | What’s Cookin’— Lemon Raspberry Muffins 70 | Giving Back—Siskiyou Outdoor Recreation Alliance Stewardship Corps

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Community To everyone in our community who has struggled, survived, and continues to push forward—we salute you.

To our first responders and frontline health care workers—we extend our deepest thanks. And, to all of the teachers, students, and staff who continue to make education a priority— we appreciate you.

Whether we serve as an Evacuation Center, a testing site, or the place that helps launch you on a new career or off to a university, we’ve got you and always have for the last 70+ years.

Together we are stronger.

Late start classes are still available. When you’re ready, we’re here.

Joe Wyse Superintendent/President Shasta College

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editor’s note SEPTEMBER 2021

CHANGE TEACHES US new things, builds our resilience and prepares us for growth. What aspect of your life is prime for change?

We’ve got some tips for building your bank account, clearing the clutter, self-care and being of service to give you a head start.

Adding some day trips or overnight adventures into your life will not only improve your mood, but it might also boost your immune system. Northern California has six national forests which provide ample opportunity to become one with nature, and that fresh air and disconnection from life’s stresses carries multiple health benefits.

Meanwhile, the American Association of University Women is changing lives for women who are pursuing higher education, and we can all contribute to the cause by attending their wildly popular home tour and art gallery.

In Tehama County, Todd Deck noticed inequities in the library system and put some adjustments in place to make the facility accessible to all. The shift also earned him the coveted Mover and Shaker designation among his librarian peers, and his community is embracing his doors-wide-open approach to making the library a truly public space.

We’ll also introduce you to Jay and Misty Bordsen, whose Saddleback Ranch has become Goat Disneyland, built for shelter, food and fun for about 60 lucky goats.

Don’t wait until there’s more time or money to stretch outside of your comfort zone – you can be the change today. Be bold, be brave and enjoy!

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The Socialife Diaries, Brand Strategist Everyone can find their identity in the city of Redding.

After graduating from college, getting married and having our first child, Bria, we decided to return to my husband’s hometown to open his medical practice.

One month after moving here we welcomed our son, Bair, in August of 2009. Even though at that time, my husband’s family had been here for over three decades, I thought I was doomed to lose the social life I crave so much. It could not have been further from the truth. I quickly found out the answer to the phrase I hear all too frequently, “what’s there to do in Redding?”

Our family enjoys all of the opportunities Redding’s outdoors has to offer. The mountains, lakes, and the river provide so many outdoor activities, such as kayaking, boating, water skiing and not to forget hunting, hiking and fishing. The soccer park has become our outdoor home. There are now many craft beer and wine venues to explore, along with a variety of choice restaurants and eateries. Redding has come into its own and will keep you busy with the numerous community events and activities available to you.

Growing up in the cities of Sacramento and San Diego provides anonymity without a closeknit community. The ability and willingness to connect and make a change in Redding are palpable. I wanted to contribute to the youth in our community and founded LaunchPad 4 Kids, Inc. The nonprofit is designed to help kids gain access to extracurricular activities. As a result, I’ve come to learn how vast the levels of philanthropy our community invests in children.

This incredible city is filled with change-makers ready to make an impact.

Redding has become the proverbial village for our family. Randy and I consider ourselves lucky to live amongst family and so many wonderful friends who have a heart for My Town.

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DIFFER ENCE

SMALL STEPS FOR BIG CHANGE

“I’D LOVE TO VOLUNTEER, if I only had more time.” “I’d love to do more traveling, if only I had more money.”

“I’d love to learn to play the piano, if only I had more talent.” While a lottery win likely isn’t in the cards and we can’t add hours to the day, shifting your priorities (even a little bit) can really impact your mindset. Change teaches us new things. It builds our resilience and flexibility and primes us for growth. Don’t wait until there’s more time or money – you can be the change today. 4

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THE CLUTTER You will hear zero judgment from us if your office is a disaster – you should see our workspaces during deadline week! But it sure feels good when we set aside some time to return everything to its place.

• House/office clutter: Set your timer for 10 minutes at the end of each day to tidy up your spaces. While it can feel impossible to carve out enough time to mop floors and fold a mountain of laundry during a busy week, those daily 10-minute “quick cleans” make a difference.

• Calendar clutter: Review the upcoming week to remind yourself what’s on the agenda and decide who’s shuttling kids to practice, etc. Going into Monday with a clear plan will help you start the week knowing you’re ahead of the game. 4 continued on page 22

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BANK ACCOUNT For one week, track every dollar that you spend. Chances are, some of those dollars were spent out of convenience, like going through a drive-through because you didn’t have time to pack your lunch. Others might be more maddening, like a late fee on a bill that you simply forgot to pay on time. We don’t want to deprive you of life’s simple pleasures, but a bit of planning can help you avoid wasting money.

• Set up auto-pay for your monthly bills. It remembers those due dates even when you don’t. For non-monthly bills, mark your calendar for a week before they’re due to remind you to send them off.

• Make a budget. It doesn’t have to be fancy, but having a basic sketch for how much is coming in and how much is going out will help you avoid late fees and interest charges that are simply dollars dumped down the drain.

• Plan your meals. Yes, you should treat yourself to dinner at our fantastic locally owned restaurants. However, those last-minute decisions to just go out because nobody can answer the “what’s for dinner?” question can blow your budget in a hurry. Meal planning and grocery shopping with that plan in mind will help ensure that on the days you planned to eat at home, you actually eat at home.

• Reward yourself. If you made your own coffee, packed your own lunch or paid that car registration on time, take the money you saved and put it away. When you have saved enough money for your reward of choice, treat yourself and enjoy the satisfaction of being the boss of your own wallet.

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self

CAR E • All about you: Regular exercise helps your mind and body, and it doesn’t have to be a full-on workout. Two 10-minute walks per day get your blood flowing. Yoga stretches or quiet meditation clear your mind. After a long day, these simple actions can restore your energy.

• “No” is a complete sentence: If you’re too busy, tired or simply don’t feel like doing something, we hereby empower you to just say no.

Boundaries keep us healthy.

• Read more: Trade in some screen time for time with a book. The library is full of wonderful treasures that are free for the borrowing. In addition to being entertaining, reading can reduce stress and help you sleep better.

• Find a new hobby: Have you always wanted to learn to paddleboard, play the flute, grow a garden or knit? Shasta College has an array of options in its community calendar, or find a local group that specializes in the activity that interests you and pick their brains.

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OF SERVICE • Volunteer: The North State is full of nonprofit organizations that desperately need helpers. From feeding animals at the humane society to greeting people at a local hospital, there’s bound to be someone who needs your skill set. You can find all kinds of volunteer opportunities by calling 2-1-1 or visiting www.211norcal.org.

• Share your wisdom: Children need caring adults in their lives, and many of our local seniors struggle with loneliness. Teaching a child how to bake cookies or helping your elderly neighbor figure out FaceTime not only helps them, but building that human connection is good for you, too.

Each of us has the power to change the world around us.

How will you be the change? •

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

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A LOT, IN COMMON A L O T TA K E S S H A P E WITH THE ETNA B E A U T I F I C AT I O N PROJECT

Photos courtesy of the Etna Beautification Project

DANISH ARCHITECT Jan Gehl once said, “A good city is like a good party – people stay longer than really necessary, because they are enjoying themselves.”

The same could be said of civic spaces in any town. Just ask Mary Kay Herold, a board member of the Etna Beautification Project, which has been instrumental in converting an abandoned lot into an enriching public place in downtown Etna (population 800).

Originally the site of the historic Hadcock Hotel, the building burned down in the 1990s, leaving a gap on Etna’s Main Street. It was an empty lot of concrete rubble covered in weeds and brambles for some time. “I always thought something would come of that space on Main Street, but my hopes were dimming after 19 years of neglect. It was a perfect spot for anything and yet totally overlooked,” recalls Herold.

The Etna Beautification Project started in 1999 as the work of local artist Janice Gaynor, who dedicated time trying to improve the overall look of Main Street. In 2018, a larger group joined the effort after much of the community came together for a visioning event that elevated desires to transform the little lot into a community space. In an effort to more effectively fundraise, the Etna Beautification Project formalized into a nonprofit in 2018. Volunteers worked hard as the lot was cleaned and cleared and slowly began to take form. They transformed the space with donated, upcycled materials, starting with landscaping bricks, tree bark and sweat equity. Even a little public library was built to accompany the transformation.

“I have always been open to community work, but it can be hard to find a good fit. The lot is a really nice fit for me as I enjoy gardening.” Herold jokes as she adds, “You better enjoy the work since the pay isn’t great.”4

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Development of the lot also developed a sense of togetherness and pride for the community. Not only did it enhance Main Street visually, but it provided a new forum for public activities and a place for people to enjoy themselves. “All of us are so encouraged to see people using the space. Etna offers so many great coffee shops and restaurants, it’s a convenient place to share a coffee or a meal,” Herold notes. Especially during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, it continued to provide a place downtown for those who wanted to engage more safely outdoors.

Social events in the space have been a great way to get people to engage with one another. Since 2018, volunteers with the Etna Beautification Project have worked during summer months and the town’s numerous street events to make the lot a celebratory gathering place. During events like Jammin’ On Main and the Etna PAL Christmas Party, the lot has featured everything from free food to activities for all ages to pop-up performances. Tables with umbrellas and the stage have added to the versatility of the space, giving a place for everything from musicians to nights of whimsy, which have included Shakespeare readings and storytelling. In 2020, the lot was trenched and connected to the city water system, thanks to RB Aldrich Construction, which served as an important milestone for adding trees and landscape.

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Many people don’t realize the lot is owned privately, not by the city of Etna. Herold notes, “I wish the community would take a little more ownership, but they seem to think the city owns it and so it can be taken for granted.” But this doesn’t deter the Etna Beautification Project’s plans for continuing to make improvements. “The landscaping in the back is flourishing and we hope to add to it as the trees grow and provide more shade.” Herold also has some visions of her own for the space. “I really want to build a brick walkway through the park with a large mandala back on the west side. Handicap accessibility is of primary importance and a brick path would make that possible.”

Herold’s pride in the group’s hard work to make it a place for everyone is clear. “My favorite memory is a moment when a dad was walking his little girl through the park. She slipped her hand out of his grasp, ran up on the stage, performed a little dance and then hurried to catch up to her dad. A moment of stardom,” she says. Turns out, there are some stars that make a stage bright, and others that bring light to their town. • Etna Beautification Project www.visitscottvalley.org/ebp • 419 Main St., Etna

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a man and his wife bought a nice home with acreage in Northeast Redding. They called it Saddleback Ranch. The first thing the man built on their new land was a big, round fence to create a pasture for his wife’s horse, Misty. But soon the wife saw that Misty was lonely, so she asked her husband to buy a couple of goats to give the horse company. He added to their family two female Nigerian dwarf goats, Cinder and Ella.

The man saw his goats needed shelter, so he began to build. Drawing from an unlimited supply of good, used wood – old pallets dumped by local businesses – the man built and built and built. He built another fence, this time to enclose a goat pen. He built a house for the goats.

He built feeding stations downstairs and sheltering attics upstairs. He was delighted when he saw much how the goats enjoyed everything he built for them.

“Goats are fun to watch. They love to climb and run and jump,” says Jay Bordsen, owner of Saddleback Ranch. “It was so much fun to build something and have the goats climbing all over it. They really showed their appreciation. Boy, that just ignited me.”

He decided to build some more and increase his tribe. Six years later, Saddleback Ranch counts five goat pens, each filled with housing, toys and obstacles. First, Bordsen expanded the original pen. Using repurposed pallet wood, he built a variety of housing, erected a tower and connected these goat attractions with walkways. He even constructed a goat teeter-totter, with car tires half-buried in the ground beneath the ends to act as cushions, eliminating shock on his goat’s legs.4 continued on page 30

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He christened the finished complex Goat Disneyland, built for shelter, food and fun. Then he began work on the free-standing Goat Hotel pen, putting things together directly from his imagination. “I don’t have blueprints,” he says. “It pops into my head, and I look at my wood and I put it together. I’m not a carpenter, but it turns out I am a great assembler.”

To grow his tribe, Bordsen bought a little, borrowed a little, bred a lot.

With a five-month gestation period, does mature within a year and each delivers three or four kids. Five years saw the births of generations, ending in a crescendo of population explosion. “We had nine births in 30 days,” he exclaims. “That’s 22 babies, which is pretty wild.”

The Bordsens learned a lot from fellow goat enthusiast Kim Shira.

“I was their goat mentor for six months, until they got their feet wet,” she says. “I helped them with delivery issues, how to tube-feed a baby goat, vaccinations, that sort of thing.”

She was highly impressed by Bordsen’s woodcraft. “Jay has an imagination like Walt Disney,” she says. “I told him how goats love obstacles, and he built these amazing structures, all for the love of goats.”

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Bordsen feeds his tribe the best alfalfa he can find, and he designed a bulk feeder that allows the goats easier access than a box feeder.

“This way they don’t have to work so hard for it,” he says. “I spoil my goats.” But that doesn’t mean spoiled behavior. “My goats are friendly, not rude,” he adds. If he sees one about to jump up on a visitor, a soft word is all that’s needed to save a good shirt.

When word got out, he also began to fill his pens with goats donated to Saddleback Ranch. “After it took off, people gave me goats,” he says. “When they saw how I sheltered them, how I treated them, people wanted their goats to live with me.” The number of goats on site now nears 60.

Saddleback Ranch was never intended to be a commercial venture, and Bordsen does not intend to sell any of his goats, but one time he made an exception. A family member told him that a Round Mountain couple’s horse lost its only companion when their mare passed away.

They decided to buy a couple of goats to give the horse company.

Bordsen invited them over and took them into the largest of his pens, Goat Village. Pam Stephens and her husband sat on a “Zen Deck,” a low wooden platform crafted to allow visitors to become 4

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Impressed by Bordsen’s works in wood, the Stephens built smaller versions for their goats, with logs, a balance beam and a ramp to the top of a two-goat-story house. “They’re going to jump on anything, so you have to secure it,” says Stephens. “They’re so sweet and lovable and fun. If they see us, they call us to their pen. We visit them every two hours or so, anyway.”

Bordsen opens Saddleback Ranch to visitors by appointment. He does not promote, but relies on word of mouth. To tour his goats’ wood-hewn wonderland, email jaybordsen@gmail.com. • www.goatvillage.com

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A A U W C E L E B R AT E S 5 0 Y E A R S O F F U N D I N G E D U C AT I O N THE REDDING BRANCH of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) has hosted its annual fundraising Home Tour and Art Show for 49 years.

For the 50th Home Tour on November 6, guests will be invited to explore: • A geodesic dome home • A down-sized retirement oasis • A luxurious home on the river • A restored historic house museum • Three large wood workshops where the owners have created their own cabinets, furniture, birdhouses, garden features and bowls made from a variety of woods As always, there will be an art gallery where members display fine art pieces.

Home Tour attendees have always enjoyed a Saturday of touring private homes decorated in the owners’ personal or professional style, some with incredible art collections as well as furniture and collectibles from their world travels. It is an opportunity to envision the possibilities for one’s own décor, spend a day with friends and family, and for many, celebrate an annual tradition.

The first AAUW Home Tour was held in 1958 to raise funds to help build the AAUW headquarters building in Washington, D.C. Members were expected to raise $1.5 million for this $2 million project. Since the AAUW national office determined that $10 per member was the amount to “donate,” the Redding Branch needed to raise more than $1,900 to meet that goal.

AAUW Redding’s strong support for the arts began in 1964, when the branch co-sponsored an art rental gallery. Members of the public were invited to view and rent mosaics, oils, watercolors, prints and sculpture for three months at a rental cost of 1 to 2 percent of its value. The All Member Fine Art Show was formally incorporated into the AAUW Home Tour in 1997. Since then, guests have been invited to purchase affordable original art pieces in oil, acrylics, watercolors, oil pastels, mosaics, collages, photographs, baskets, ceramics, some giclee prints and many assorted artists’ note cards.

The Redding Branch has a 79-year history of civic involvement, and new members are always welcome; anyone with an associates, bachelor’s or advanced degree as well as registered nurses may join. Membership provides an introduction to a group of new friends during monthly general meetings and via sections that include drama, film, books, international travel, Scrabble and wine tastings.

Volunteer opportunities have included the Women in STEM Conference for middle school girls, Women’s March on the Capitol, and involvement in the many aspects of the Home Tour, where half of the proceeds go to students graduating from Shasta College and moving on as a full-time student at an accredited university. The other half of the proceeds go to women in California finishing advanced degrees.

Established in 1942, AAUW Redding membership has grown significantly and the branch has truly opened the doors to education for hundreds of college graduates and thousands of middle-school girls who attended the bi-annual STEM Conference. • Photo by Sharon Salpas

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LASSEN VOLCANIC National Park is home to a fluffy fox that is one of the rarest mammals in California.

Small, smart, spunky and springy, Sierra Nevada red foxes live at high elevation – 8,000 feet or so – where winter hits hard.

“Having this rare species within the park is one of the attributes that makes Lassen Volcanic National Park truly unique,” says Michael Magnuson, Lassen Park wildlife biologist. “I find the fact that an animal the size of a house-cat can live and survive in 20 feet of snow all winter amazing.”

“They are incredibly smart creatures,” says Jennifer Carlson, Shasta-Trinity Unit biologist with California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “They can hear something moving in the spaces underneath the snow.

They are patient. They are able to jump straight up in the air and straight back down to catch prey.”

To handle life high in the mountains, where winter temperatures drop into the teens and snow piles up, the foxes have thick coats. “Their feet are not like a dog’s feet, where you can see the toe-pads,” says Carlson.

“They are completely covered with fur to make them more like snowshoes.”

A fox weighs in at 10 pounds or less, but looks larger because of all the fluff. Some have reddish-brown coats (reflecting their name), while others lean more to black or gray. The key identifier is a white-tipped tail. They’ve all got that.

Sierra Nevada red foxes are mostly solitary, with pairs returning to each other in mating season. “Male and female tend to mate for life,” Carlson says. “When the female dens and gives birth to the pups, the male will bring food back to the den.”

Rodents – voles, gophers and such – are key food.

The foxes cache extras, stashing some kills under rocks or underground.

Sierra Nevada red foxes once lived throughout the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade mountains. Their numbers declined dramatically in the past 100 years.

California Department of Fish and Wildlife lists them as “threatened.” Populations – never huge to begin with – likely were impacted by fur hunting (stopped in 1974), competition for prey and being preyed upon. Any carnivores bigger than the foxes – bear, bobcats and coyotes, in particular – are a threat.

Sierra Nevada red fox is a one of three high-elevation subspecies of red fox. The Lassen group, found in Lassen Park and the adjacent Caribou Wilderness of Lassen National Forest, was thought to be the only Sierra Nevada red fox population in California until 2010 when a fellow fox was picked up on a motion-activated camera in the Sonora Pass area near Yosemite National Park. The foxes were later documented in the Sierras west of Bishop.

Sierra Nevada red foxes also have been found in the Oregon Cascades. The Lassen population is extremely low, probably 20 or fewer foxes, Carlson says. “That’s small. We are thinking it’s not sustainable.” 4

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“WE’RE LEARNING A LOT, BUT THERE IS STILL MORE TO LEARN…”

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Spot a fox?

Seeing a Sierra Nevada red fox is rare, but it does happen. If you think you’ve sighted one, researchers ask that you fill out an online report at https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/ Sierra-Nevada-Red-Fox/Sighting-Report When visiting Lassen Volcanic National Park, it is important to follow the no-dogs-on-trails rule.

Dogs chase wildlife and also could transmit canine diseases to foxes.

Researchers are trying to learn as much as they can, but it’s challenging. There are so few foxes, they live in rugged, remote places and they are extremely wary about entering live trapping cages. In the 1990s, a few Lassen foxes were trapped and collared, but the telemetry equipment of that era was bulky, clunky and failed quickly. In 2018, a new program with lightweight collars linked to satellites began. Seven foxes have been fit with the high-tech collars to track their wanderings.

Carlson is part of that effort. “They are moving and using the daytime quite a bit, more than I anticipated,” she says.

Through the tracking, researchers learned the foxes remain at high elevation in the summer but their range expands in winter when they move into lower areas to find food. The tracking collars led to the first documentation of a Sierra Nevada red fox den.

Motion-detecting trail cameras and DNA samples from fox hair and scat provide information too. A genetics lab at University of California Davis analyzes samples to reveal genetic information on individual foxes. “We’re learning a lot, but there is still more to learn,” Carlson says.

The Sierra Nevada Red Fox Working Group, a collaboration of government, academic and other entities, is working on recovery strategies. “The Lassen population is the most concerning because the genetic diversity is so low,” Carlson says. One option would be bringing in foxes from another area. But other Sierra Nevada red fox populations aren’t flush with foxes, so it is uncertain where introductions would come from.

Carlson hopes the Lassen foxes hang on. “I think they are a unique species on the landscape.”

Lassen Park wildlife biologist Magnuson says it’s impressive how the fox has adapted to such a specific environment. “If they do not persist here, then part of what makes Lassen Volcanic National Park special will be lost.”•

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

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SEPTEMBER VENUES REOPENING THE PEOPLE WHO WORK to bring people together in performing arts venues are breathing big sighs of relief as COVID-19 restrictions begin to ease and stage lights start to brighten.

“We are thrilled to be able to open,” says an excited Michelle Irvine, general manager of the historic Cascade Theatre in downtown Redding. “It’s been a very long 16 months.”

The Cascade’s first big ticketed event will be country rap artist (and former professional golfer) Colt Ford on Sept. 9. “We’ve got a full lineup and we’re still working on booking shows,” Irvine says. “We’re fortunate to be able to bring back some of our original staff from before and a lot of dedicated volunteers are returning.”

The Cascade’s fall lineup includes trumpeter Chris Botti (Sept. 14); jazz guitarist Pat Metheny (Sept. 22); comic Tape Face (Oct. 10); roots rocker John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas (Oct. 16); bluesman Robert Cray (Oct. 19); and bluesy folk with the Wood Brothers (Oct. 20).

Perhaps no one is more excited to swing open the doors than Darryll Alvey, president of Riverfront Playhouse’s board of directors. The venerable community theater company had just put the finishing touches on its new downtown Redding 152-seat facility when the pandemic put the kibosh on indoor public gatherings.

“It’s a watershed moment, it absolutely is,” says Alvey, who notes that mortgage payments, insurance and the other monthly expenses continued throughout the COVID-19 closure. “It was just not morally right to open and possibly expose people. We waited as long as we could to make sure there’s no blatant or open exposure to our patrons,” Alvey says. 4 continued on page 44

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But the wait is over and Riverfront’s new curtains will rise Sept. 17 for the opening night of “Clue.” The world premiere of Mary Lou Dobson’s “Dracula: Down for the Count” opens Oct. 15. The expansive new theater (11,500 square feet compared with 2,500 square feet for the old East Cypress Avenue location) gives Riverfront abundant opportunities to host receptions and meetings while the theater itself has already proven to be a popular concert venue.

Post-COVID concerts are music to the ears of Janelle Pierson and Janis Rollins Logan, two of the organizers of the Redding Roots Revival music festival, which is returning Sept. 24-25 after a successful debut in 2019.

Pierson says the festival is sticking to its long-term goal of promoting downtown with a weekend of live music on multiple stages throughout the Redding Cultural District, but in deference to last year’s hiatus, the 2021 edition will be “smallish” with 24 acts performing on two stages.

The main stage will be set up behind the Chain Gang bike shop with the Stone Foxes slated to close out opening night and Tim Snider and Wolfgang Timber wrapping up Saturday’s entertainment. Other acts scheduled include the Coffis Brothers, Jessica Malone, Jim Dyar and the Barefoot Band, Jeff Campbell, Mickelson and Jonathan Foster. “It’s going to be all outdoors and it’s going to be fun,” Pierson says.

Fun’s on tap as well at the Civic Auditorium, which is getting back into the concert business with country star Lee Brice on Sept. 25 and Christian recording artist Jeremy Camp on Oct. 17. “We’re super excited that the event industry is coming back to life,” says Nathan Parmelee, the Civic’s booking and marketing manager.

The Civic will have health and safety measures in place, Parmelee says, “but we’re just thrilled to be in a position to do indoor shows again. We’ve got a number of shows on the books and some really big shows this winter. We have every reason to believe 2022 will be a strong year.”

Axiom Repertory Theatre took full advantage of the grand reopening by staging six shows in rotation through the end of September. True to its repertory name, the Bechelli Lane theater company is presenting “Woody Guthrie’s American Song,” “May 4th Voices,” “The Vagina Monologues,” “Love Letters,” “White Rabbit, Red Rabbit,” and “I Got Sick Then I Got Better.” Earlier, its Children’s Theatre staged “Seussical Jr.” Concerts have returned to Red Bluff ’s State Theatre, as well. Pam Tillis and Lorrie Morgan visited in August and “An R-Rated Magic Show” will be staged Sept. 18, followed by country artist Josh Turner on Sept. 25. Tanya Tucker will perform Oct. 12.

Easing of COVID restrictions also means one of California’s oldest fairs is back after a year’s absence. The Inter-Mountain Fair, which dates back to 1918, will offer carnival rides, livestock exhibitions, a concert, a destruction derby and more from Sept. 2-6 at the fairgrounds in McArthur.

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

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TO D D D E C K , TEHAMA COUNTY L I B R A RY D I R E C TO R TODD DECK REMEMBERS his days in graduate school preparing for his master’s degree in library science at Emporia State University. Library Journal was standard reading and he’d delight in the annual issue featuring librarians considered Movers and Shakers; those, as editor-in-chief Meredith Schwartz writes in the intro to the 2021 awards, “who are moving the library field forward as a profession.”

Deck is among this year’s inductees, noted for their significance in persevering through a pandemic with “little choice but to embrace change and run with it.”

While Deck says he’s still in shock to be taking his place among the ranks of lauded librarians, anyone paying attention to his work as director of the Tehama County Library saw this coming a while ago. With all of the new programs he’s developed, it’s no surprise he’s won in the Innovator category.

Deck has not only overseen the move of the Red Bluff library into a new and highly upgraded facility, but has brought creative programming to the libraries across Tehama County. “The thing I’m most proud of, from an innovation standpoint, is that we went fine-free,” he says.

It’s about equity and inclusion, he says, to keep the library accessible to all, regardless of ability to pay fees. “We had great success getting grants and such, but a quarter of our patrons couldn’t access our services because they had fines. I can’t in good conscience bring these valuable things to our community knowing that a quarter of our people couldn’t afford them because of fines. If you have a library that is charging fines, you have an institution that is creating barriers to service.”

Another barrier to service Deck has addressed is access to the library itself, increasing service hours by 30 a week without adding staff time. A new self-service model allows patrons to access the building, use computers and bathrooms, and check out books without staff on site.

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“The opportunity presented itself right when COVID started,” says Deck. “If there was ever a time when we needed to innovate for selfservice, this was it. The only time I’d get negative feedback was about my hours. This was an opportunity to fix that.” With self-service hours, patrons can access library services from 7am until 1pm. They can then benefit from librarian help from 1 until 6pm.

“One of my core values is this idea of assuming positive intent,” says Deck, noting that he hasn’t had any problems with the self-service model since it started. “It’s going wonderfully.” Patrons have to opt in to the service and sign a code of conduct for behavior and internet policy. “People really appreciate it and are respectful,” he adds, stating that the early hours are especially popular. “People want to go in and get their books and go about their day.”

Access to story hour for children is another area he’s addressed, partnering with the Tehama County Probation Department’s woodworking program to develop an outdoor story walk. A pathway with book pages in 12 kiosks leads children through a story walk outside the library, allowing story time anytime. Books rotate often and tell, as Deck says, “stories that haven’t been told at this library before. The Story Walk celebrates all kids, regardless of their family life.”

While the library has always had a popular and well-attended live story hour during the week, the Story Walk opens opportunities to youth whose families may not be able to access it because they work during the day. It’s common to see families in evenings walking together. “We’ll hear from families that got an ice cream and then did the Story Walk,” says Deck.

Looking forward, the library is developing an adult coloring book featuring hidden heroes and forgotten history of Tehama County, and Deck plans to offer coloring nights with patrons.

“I want as many people to access services in as many ways as we can and not be punitive,” says Deck. He notes his training with the Young Adult Library Services Association and connection with other rural librarians and mentors has conditioned him to put community engagement first. That comes down to the amount of space available to patrons in the new library. “The thing that I love and appreciate about it is that it is 85 percent public space and 15 percent staff area,” he says. The previous library had a 50/50 ratio.

“From the library’s perspective, this is a national recognition for the work that we’re doing,” says Deck of his award. “But we wouldn’t be doing this if the community weren’t using it. Libraries are reflections of the communities they serve. Tehama County is a community of readers. I’m honored every day that I get to serve this community.”• Tehama County Library 545 Diamond Ave., Red Bluff www.tehamacountylibrary.org

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

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National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month September 2021

Changing your habits, no matter how well-intentioned, is hard. It can be difficult for children and parents to make healthy food choices and get enough physical activity when they are exposed to environments that do not support healthy habits.

Making attempts to change the environments where your children spend their time can help them achieve and maintain a healthy weight by making it easier to eat nutritious foods, get at least 60 minutes of physical activity daily, watch less television, and consume fewer foods and beverages high in added sugars or solid fats.

Childhood obesity is a serious problem in the United States, putting children and adolescents at risk for poor health. Obesity prevalence among children and adolescents is still too high. Read CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data brief.

Note: Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) at or above the 95th percentile of the CDC sex-specific BMI-for-age growth charts.

For children and adolescents aged 2-19 years in 2017-2018: • The prevalence of obesity was 19.3% and affected about 14.4 million children and adolescents.

• Obesity prevalence was 13.4% among 2- to 5-year-olds, 20.3% among 6to 11-year-olds, and 21.2% among 12- to 19-year-olds. Childhood obesity

is also more common among certain populations.

• Obesity prevalence was 25.6% among Hispanic children, 24.2% among non-Hispanic Black children, 16.1% among non-Hispanic White children, and 8.7% among non-Hispanic Asian children.

ARE YOUR KIDS HUNGRY OR JUST BORED? Children often use food for many reasons other than to satisfy hunger. Children often eat in response to their emotions and feelings. If your child is eating 3 wellbalanced meals and at least I snack a day but still claims to be hungry, there may be other reasons beyond hunger that makes him or her want to eat.

HEALTHY ALTERNATIVES. If you suspect your child is eating out of boredom, you may need to steer him or her toward other activities as a distraction. *Help your child choose other things to do instead of eating, such as: • Walking the dog or join you for a walk around the neighborhood.

• Running through the sprinklers • Kicking a soccer ball • Dancing

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Orang e Appeal M A K E A S TO P AT J O E ’ S G I A N T O R A N G E I N S H A S TA L A K E JUST OFF I-5, a big plastered painted orange sits perched in front of what is dutifully named Joe’s Giant Orange Café. Established in 1946, it was one of dozens of juice stands along the original Highway 99 and currently the big ol’ orange is one of the few left standing in California.

Today, Joe’s Giant Orange Café serves a full menu of Mexican and American food along with fresh-squeezed orange juice served in a variety of cool drinks. Joe’s Giant Orange Café is owned by Ruben Garcia, who also runs Trendy’s at 1730 Gold St. in Redding.

Originally from the Michoacan region of Mexico, Garcia moved to Chico when he was 14 and worked at Jack’s Family Restaurant for the next 20 years. While eating at a Redding restaurant, he learned Joe’s Giant Orange Café was for sale. Garcia had worked so long in the restaurant business that he felt like his former boss in Chico taught him everything he needed to know about how to run a diner, and he wanted to give it a shot. Garcia bought Joe’s Giant Orange Café in 2015, expanding the menu and improving the quality of food. A big part of that was serving freshly squeezed orange juice to his customers.

“They used to have these big machines that just kept the juice cold. It wasn’t fresh like it is now,” Garcia says. His friend in Orland grows the citrus, and Garcia regularly drives to his friend’s farm to get boxes of recently picked oranges for the cafe. Garcia also upgraded its juicer, getting an industrial machine that holds 20 pounds of oranges, squeezing out up to three gallons of orange juice per cycle.

According to the Shasta Lake Heritage and Historical Society, the Giant Orange juice stand was originally in Pine Grove on Highway 99 just north of Redding. George and Adelaide Castle ran it until 1953, then Don and Jerry Duryee bought it. Harriet Baker Duryee reopened it and built a restaurant onto it, later changing it to an antique store. Somewhere down the line, a guy named Joe bought it; all Garcia knows about him is that Joe owned it for about 10 years.

But the physical Giant Orange has remained put all of these years, and when mentioning that it’s pretty neat that the physical orange is still intact, Garcia replies, “I think the history attached to this place helps business. I think it’s important to serve fresh food, and people love our orange juice.” 4 continued on page 54

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“I think the history attached to this place helps business.

I think it’s important to serve fresh food, and people love our orange juice.”

All of Joe’s Giant Orange Café meals are made of quality ingredients, affordable and appeal to everyone while also providing Northern Californians with a piece of nostalgia.

“A lot of people take a picture in front of the Orange,” Garcia says, noting that about 20 people have come in over the years who’ve worked there.

Over one of the booths shows a historical collage of the Giant Orange with a blackand-white photo of two young boys.

Recently, one of the boys – now a man in his 80s – came back to have a meal and recognized himself in the picture.

The inside of the Giant Orange is now used as storage.

Garcia’s daughter Rosie then drops off a lunch special of housemade sopes made of a thick, fried, crunchy dough topped with cheese, crema, lettuce, tomato and cooked chunks of carnitas (served with a glass of orange juice, of course). Its giant menu portrays a multitude of American and Mexican dishes.

The most popular items on the menu include the chile verde, chicken fried steak and broasted chicken, voted the best in Shasta Lake. For breakfast, the Arizona enchilada omelet, Whole Hog and steak fajita omelets are favorites.

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Between the freshsqueezed mimosas and lunch specials that include tortas, 8-oz. ribeye with shrimp for only $15, and “Michoacan style” enchiladas, it’s hard to make a decision no matter what time of the day you go there.

However, the Orange Freeze is a must-have, especially on a hot summer day. Made of ice cream, orange juice and a little bit of Fanta, it’s one of the restaurant’s most sought-after treats. It tastes like a creamsicle. It makes sense that the Giant Orange can blow through up to five gallons of ice cream a week when temperatures creep above 100 degrees.

“Some people will come in at 6:30am and order an Orange Freeze,” a server says.

Joe’s Giant Orange Café is traditional, friendly and comfortable and totally worth the hype; a must-stop on a NorCal summer day.• www.joesgiantorangecafe.com

Kayla Anderson is a freelance writer, marketer, and avid traveler who grew up on the shores of the Sacramento River in Redding. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from CSU, Chico and loves travelling on Northern California’s roads less traveled in her free time.

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feeling good B O O S T I N G YO U R I M M U N E SYS T E M I N C A L I F O R N I A A DV E N T U R E D I S T R I C T

ONE OF THE VALUABLE lessons we are learning during this season is the importance of building a strong, natural immune system. Luckily for us, we live in a region where we can easily make some minor adjustments, if need be, to live a healthier life.

OUR NATIONAL FORESTS- Northern California is known to have some of the best air quality around, fires notwithstanding, and getting outside all year round is a wonderful thing to be able to do. California Adventure District has six national forests which provide ample opportunity to become one with nature. Planning multi-day trips into any of our forests and planting your bare feet onto the soil is a wonderful way to reconnect your body and soul to the earth and recharge your system. Forest bathing is one of the pillars of the California Adventure District’s mission. It turns out that we know very little about trees, but with the help of some modern-day medical insights, we can test our blood before and after spending three days or more in a dense forest environment, and the results are significant. Allowing our skin to feed off the vapors coming out of the redwood trees, for example, cleans and nourishes our blood in measurable ways.

ORGANIC FOODS - California Adventure District has some fantastic farmers markets with great natural and organic foods, all sourced and grown locally. The ones in Redding, Arcata, Crescent City and Mendocino are well worth the effort to visit, and to stock up on fresh goodies like eggs, cheeses, breads, nuts, grains, veggies, herbs and tons of fruit. The Arcata Farmers Market is so popular that there’s a waiting list to have a stand. In Shasta County you can reach out to and visit Providence Riverland Agriculture Regeneration Farm, a local initiative aimed at providing training and job opportunities for economically disadvantaged individuals in the area of agriculture. Organic foods are grown and made available here. There are hundreds of local small businesses throughout the district that specialize in natural and organic foods; with a little effort, one could bypass the giant supermarkets altogether. And don’t miss Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate in Eureka.

MOUNTAIN WATER - Once you taste the fresh water from the many running springs coming directly out of Mt. Shasta, even the fanciest of bottled water will no longer suffice.

Many flatlanders make the trek up to Mt. Shasta with empty water jugs to fill them up directly from the flowing springs coming up out of the ground. Drinking this water for the first time sends a signal to your brain that says, “Ah, this is what water should taste like…”

OCEAN AIR- It’s no secret that breathing ocean air and putting your feet in the surf is a great boost to the system, and with 320 miles of incredible Northern California coastline, California Adventure District has many beaches to visit in Del Norte, Humboldt and Mendocino counties.

THE SUN - And finally, sunlight. Sunlight is the not-so-new buzzword being used as one of the ultimate boosts to our immune system, and lucky for us, we have plenty of it. Regular exposure to sunlight, in healthy doses of course, significantly helps with the natural supply of Vitamin D. Shasta County and the rest of the northern Sacramento Valley is known for long, hot summers, with Redding having an average of 249 sunny days per year, which is 44 days more than the U.S. average of 205.

So go out and boost your natural immune system in the California Adventure District, and buy some killer chocolate in the process.•

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

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

DOWNTOWN DETAILS THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING DOWNTOWN REDDING BUSINESSES. BE THE CHANGE. In order to revitalize Downtown Redding, Viva Downtown and other groups have worked with a set of Eight Principles.

These principles can be used in any project, large or small. The first four is how we start. 1. For successful, sustainable, long-term change, we need a comprehensive plan and a complete approach. 2. We must want to change! 3. If we want something done, we have to do it ourselves. No one else can do our job for us. 4. We need to all work together and form partnerships to make things happen.

The next four is how we make a better community. 5. We need to build on our assets. Downtown has many great things we can celebrate and use to make further improvements. Retaining and enhancing local assets must be the foundation for our work. 6. We must emphasize quality in every aspect of revitalization. This applies to all elements of the process. 7. Improvements need to happen incrementally. While large, catalytic projects are important, successful revitalization programs include basic, simple activities that regularly demonstrate new things are happening in Downtown Redding.

8. To succeed, we must show visible results that can only come from completing projects. Frequent, visible changes are a reminder that our revitalization effort is succeeding.

Want to be a part of the change? Check out our Viva Downtown volunteer committees at www.vivadowntownredding.org/committees

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DOWNTOWN BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT Zoe’s Travel Shoppe - New to Downtown, Zoe’s Travel Shoppe is a locally owned business specializing in all types of traveler’s needs. Travel safe with RFID and anti-theft bags and purses, or go simple with the RFID blocking sleeves for credit cards and passports. They have packing cubes and folders to help get your month long excursion in a carry-on size suitcase or backpack.

Best of all, they can help get you get ready for your next exciting trip. From city streets to country gravel your fun begins at Zoe’s Travel!

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HERE’S THE BLAKEDOWN

Blake Fisher - Viva Downtown Program Coordinator Two exciting events are in the works this September with Viva Downtown’s 25-Year Celebration and The 2021 State of the City Redding Better Together presentation and block party. On Thursday, September 9, party with Viva Downtown from 5-8pm on the reopened Market Street to celebrate 25 years since our first summer of Marketfest. This event is open to the public, and like a classic Marketfest, expect beer, wine, street vendors and live music performed by the David Luning Band. Then on Friday, September 24, join the Redding Chamber of Commerce and The City of Redding at 4pm for the 2021 State of the City, Redding Better Together. This year, the State of the City will be presented at the historic Cascade Theatre with Mayor Erin Resner addressing the community about the accomplishments and future projects of Redding. After the presentation, we skip the usual luncheon and head over through Umbrella Alley to the new streets for the State of the City Block Party for beer, wine, steam whistles, photo opportunities and live music by the talented local group, The Cadence. See you there!

Schreder Planetarium - Schreder Planetarium is pleased to offer evening programs every other Friday to the public, and field trips to schools. Enjoy their new state-of-the-art projection and audio system, new customized star shows, and a double feature of traditional, professional, full-dome shows. Shows feel vivid and nearly three-dimensional and the night sky is bright and twinkly. Schreder Planetarium celebrated its 40-year anniversary January 2020 and continues to be a valued asset for youth and community members. Check out the show schedule, purchase tickets online and learn more at their website or Facebook page.

1644 Magnolia Ave., Redding • (530) 225-0295 www.shastacoe.org/programs-services/schreder-planetarium

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PASTELS - TRINIDAD PIER Marnie Patchett is a fine art photographer specializing in long exposure, black-and-white and light painting photography.

Whether capturing a moment in time or a period of time in a single shot, envisioning an image and bringing it to life (so to speak) is her passion. To see what else is in Marnie’s head visit www.MarniePatchettPhotography.com and www.MarniePatchettinblackandwhite.com

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WHAT’S COOKIN’ | STORY AND PHOTO BY MACI MANTY

LEMON RASPBERRY MUFFINS SEPTEMBER 2021 RECIPE

Muffins are a classic breakfast favorite, and these lemon raspberry muffins are no exception. They’re perfectly moist, bursting with juicy raspberries, have a crunchy sugar top and are drizzled with a lovely lemon icing. The sweet and tangy lemon-raspberry flavor combo is a hard one to beat, and these muffins are a delightful way to start off the day. Enjoy!

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MUFFIN INGREDIENTS: 6 T butter, melted and cooled

1 cup granulated sugar

1 large egg, at room

temperature ½ T vanilla extract

DIRECTIONS: STEP 1: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Melt the butter in a microwave-safe container and set aside to cool. Add 12 baking cups to a muffin tin and set aside.

STEP 2: Grate the lemon peel and set aside 1 T of zest.

Add the melted butter, granulated sugar, egg, vanilla and sour cream to a large bowl and beat with an electric hand mixer until fully combined. Once combined, mix in the lemon zest.

¾ cup full-fat sour cream

1 T lemon zest

1¼ cups flour 1¼ tsp. baking powder ¼ tsp. salt

1 cup raspberries (fresh or

frozen), tossed in 2 T flour ¼ cup raw/turbinado sugar ICING INGREDIENTS: ¾ cup powdered sugar 2 tsp. heavy whipping cream

1 tsp. vanilla

½ T fresh squeezed lemon juice

PREP TIME: 15 MINUTES BAKE TIME: 15 MINUTES MAKES: 12 MUFFINS

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STEP 3: In a small bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder and salt. Once combined, add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients in the large bowl and slowly mix together until just combined – be careful not to overmix. Toss the raspberries in 2 T of flour and add them to the batter (leave the excess flour from the berries behind). Gently fold the raspberries into the batter using a rubber spatula until just combined – again, be careful not to overmix.

STEP 4: Fill the baking cups about ¾ full with batter and generously sprinkle the raw/turbinado sugar onto each batter-filled cup to give the muffins a nice crunchy top once baked.

STEP 5: Bake for 15-18 minutes at 375 degrees on the middle oven rack. To make sure the muffins are fully baked, insert a toothpick into the center and if it comes out clean, it’s done. Remove from the oven and place the muffins on a cooling rack.

STEP 6: While the muffins cool, add all the icing ingredients to a small, microwave safe bowl and whisk together until combined. Before drizzling over the muffins, warm up the icing in the microwave for 6-8 seconds to create a thinner consistency for easier drizzling. Use a spoon to drizzle the warm icing over the cooled muffins. It will firm up as it sets.

STEP 7: Store leftover muffins in an airtight container at room temperature. They will stay fresh for up to three days. Enjoy!

Maci Manty is a self-taught baker, wife, mother and animal lover.

Some of her favorite things include baking, taking pictures, hiking, paddle boarding at Whiskeytown Lake, bike rides and spending time with her family and pets. Follow her feed on Instagram @lovely_baking_co to see what she’s baking.

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art or science?

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT MOLECULAR GASTRONOMY

“Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less.”

-Nathan Mhyrvold

IS COOKING an art or a science? It’s a debate that’s been simmering on the back burner since 1988 when a Hungarian physicist and a French physical chemist brought the laboratory into the kitchen and made Julia Child’s culinary exploits look like, well, child’s play.

Nicholas Kurti and Hervé This – the two scientists – coined the term “molecular gastronomy” more than three decades ago. Since then, a new branch of culinary science has emerged that focuses on the physical and chemical processes that alter edible ingredients.

Molecular gastronomists study how ingredients and cooking methods create different effects. Even the simplest recipes have basic physical, biological and chemical mechanisms that make the dish turn out as intended. For example, soufflés inflate because of the proteins in egg whites. Tiny air bubbles are created when egg whites are whipped. The bubbles expand when heated, which prevents the soufflé from flattening like a pancake.

That’s just a simple example. These days, hybrid scientists/chefs are exploring new culinary frontiers. And some serious brainpower and money is being spent to get us to there.

Billionaire scientist Nathan Mhyrvold – the founder of Microsoft Research, owner or coowner of nearly 1,000 patents and graduate of France’s famous culinary academy École de Cuisine La Varenne – co-authored a five-book collection titled “Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking.” The price tag? $625! There are more than 1,500 recipes and 3,700 photographs in the 2,438-page, 52-pound collection.

“Cooking is an art,” Mhyrvold says, “but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less.”

That’s one way of describing it. I prefer to think of it as what would happen if Willy Wonka and Betty Crocker joined forces.

Whether you call it “modernist cuisine” or “molecular cuisine” or “avant-garde cuisine” or “nerd cuisine,” all I know is that it is an open invitation to play with your food. And children all over the world now have a new excuse for pushing their dinner from one side of the plate to the other. “Mom! I’m not playing with my food. I’m experimenting with molecular gastronomy.”

You don’t have to turn your kitchen into a laboratory in order to delve into molecular gastronomy. All you need is a curious mind and a sense of adventure.

This recipe combines the essence of molecular gastronomy and the soul of Willy Wonka.

And it’s a perfect summertime experiment that you can do with young children.

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Terry Olson loves culinary arts, adult beverages and hiking in the North State wilderness. You may find him soaking up the scenery at one of our area’s many state or national parks or sitting in a barstool sipping a cold locally brewed craft beer.

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CHOCOLATE-COVERED STRAWBERRIES DIPPED IN POP ROCKS The Culinary Science: The effervescence from popping sugar creates a chemical reaction, releasing gas which forms fizz, foam and bubbles.

Popping sugar is sugar that contains carbon dioxide. Once this type of sugar melts, usually as a result of contact with moisture, the carbon dioxide gas is released, resulting in a popping sensation that is felt in your mouth as you eat it.

INGREDIENTS • 1 pint strawberries • ½ cup chocolate (milk, dark or white) • 2 or 3 packets of popping sugar (like strawberry-flavored Pop Rocks) INSTRUCTIONS • Melt chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave in small bowl, stirring occasionally. (If using a double boiler, transfer melted chocolate to a smaller bowl for dipping strawberries.)

• Cover a cookie sheet in wax paper.

• Grabbing a strawberry by the stem, dip it into the chocolate.

• Hold the dipped strawberry over a plate and, using your fingertips, sprinkle with popped sugar.

• Set on the waxed-paper lined cookie sheet.

• Place in freezer for 5-10 minutes until chocolate has set.

Enjoy the explosion in your mouth! •

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GIVING BACK | BY CLAUDIA MOSBY

Caring for Nature S I S K I YO U O U T D O O R R E C R E AT I O N A L L I A N C E S T E WA R D S H I P C O R P S CONSERVATIONIST JOHN MUIR once remarked, “The mountains are calling and I must go,” a summons that many followed this past year during the uncertainty of a worldwide pandemic and long stretches of confinement at home. We wanted to walk among the living, to feel reassured that we could breathe easy, to find peace in a conflicted time. Where better to find this than nature?

Thousands of us followed this call, flocking to Mt. Shasta and the surrounding mountains, trails, rivers, and streams. While we were “keeping close to nature’s heart,” Siskiyou County residents were worried about its health. Witnessing habitat destruction, trail degradation, water pollution and human waste created by an unprecedented increase in visitor use of recreation areas, they turned to the Siskiyou Outdoor Recreation Alliance for guidance.

With its mission to advocate, educate and create “meaningful and responsible connections” to the varied natural landscapes and outdoor recreation opportunities within the Shasta-Siskiyou region, the Siskiyou Outdoor Recreation Alliance (formed from a merger between the Mt. Shasta Nordic Ski Organization and Mountain Runners) was able to respond to local concerns by leveraging its multi-season, pan-recreational expertise in supporting partnerships, policy and planning for community vitality.

The organization developed and distributed a survey seeking community input to address the primary concerns expressed – fire, overloaded infrastructure, alienated locals, degraded environment and natural resource damage – and held several public meetings to present the results to diverse community stakeholders.

The result has been creation of the Siskiyou Stewardship Corps, an operated by the Siskiyou Outdoor Recreation Alliance to work with landowners/managers, non-profit organizations and Siskiyou County municipalities. The goal is to

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promote responsible recreation on private and public lands and use volunteers to accomplish partner objectives via public outreach and education, trash removal, trail maintenance in high-use recreation areas and habitat restoration.

After convening a regional 14-member steering committee of cross-sectional community stakeholders, the Alliance created a two-phase timeline for the program’s rollout and is on track to meet its objectives.

This year includes finalizing the project proposal, funding solicitation, partnership agreements, and hiring a lead crew member to work with volunteers, finalize partnership agreements and develop the outreach curriculum.

In 2022, the scope will expand to include finalizing funds to hire a second seasonal crew member and implementing the trail maintenance project component, which, along with the public education component, constitutes the full program.

Inclusive of all, the Siskiyou Outdoor Recreation Alliance is partnering with Leave No Trace and Discover Siskiyou to develop customized, bilingual educational materials with best practices that visitors can adopt to both enjoy and preserve recreation areas. • For more information or to volunteer visit siskiyououtdooralliance.org/ siskiyou-stewardship-corps or call (530) 812-0110.

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Claudia Mosby is fascinated by the power of words to influence, inspire and heal. She uses poetry and expressive narrative writing to help people recognize and tell their own stories.

She lives in the East Bay Area, where she is pursuing a Master of Divinity degree.

PROGRAM GOALS • Ensure Siskiyou County’s outdoor recreation sector of the economy is resilient, vibrant, and supports our community values.

• Foster a resident and visitor culture that demonstrates respect for our community, culture and environmental stewardship.

• Support collaboration between federal land agencies, local government, nonprofit and user groups to improve management of recreation and natural resources.

• Be proactive in the management of private and public natural and recreation assets to minimize degradation and enhance quality.

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