As sunlight washed over Redding’s first day of October, more than 200 volunteers, 20 chainsaws and five industrial chippers converged upon a jungle-like parcel of land previously “hidden” in the city’s core. Their mission: uncover and correct a half-century of overgrowth and neglect during the… Continue Reading
Six years ago, when there was a budget for such things and Redding had a new Planning Commissioner, I was sent to a League of California Cities Annual Meeting in Monterey. Besides learning something about provisions of the California Environmental… Continue Reading
Redding historical photos of the Diestelhorst Auto Camp and cabins, built in the early 1920s by the Diestelhorst family, near Diestelhorst Bridge over the Sacramento River. A great flood in February 1940 wiped out the camp and cabins, and… Continue Reading
It has been an eventful month since the chainsaws and chippers of the 4th Annual Community Creek Clean-up became silent along the South Sacramento River Trail. The unprecedented volunteer labor before, during and after this event have returned to Redding… Continue Reading
This year’s 4th annual Redding Community Creek Clean Up takes place on 3 October. The effort of hundreds of volunteers on this day will end a month of labor at several different venues. West Side Trail Cleanup was Sept. 12;… Continue Reading
Although a century and a continent separated them, Henry David Thoreau and Claude H. Caldwell shared two vital attributes. Each was gone much too early, in his forties. Both are known by local sites which generations admire and gratefully acknowledge.… Continue Reading
Tuesday the Rotary Club of Redding Board of Directors pledged a significant sum to advance the cause of trail use in our area: Heart Rate Hill Overlook at the new Keswick Link which joins the South Sacramento River Trail to… Continue Reading
One hundred years ago this May, near the end of his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt addressed a White House gathering. Among those present were 41 of 46 governors, nine Supreme Court Justices, most of the cabinet, congressmen, industrialists, labor leaders and… Continue Reading
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