Now that I have a newborn in the house, the last thing I have time for is weeding through an email inbox filled with offers for 30% off at a store I bought one thing from three years ago, or… Continue Reading
Garage sale, yard sale, tag sale, estate sale, basement sale, house sale, porch sale. Whatever you call it, they’re fun to have and, better yet, they have the potential to add substantially to your personal bottom line. Â However, as with… Continue Reading
Today we speak with Shasta County eligibility worker Terri Saulmon. She works with the HOPE Van team, and is also affiliated with Project Homeless Connect. She and I met one Thursday at Living Hope Compassion Ministries where Saulmon worked to connect clients with various social services. Q: Thank you, Terri,… Continue Reading
The National Park Service, Whiskeytown N.R.A is planning to continue active under-burn operations within the East Boundary Project located on the Shasta Divide Ridge beginning Thursday, March 8th. The planned burn area is approximately 10 acres of pine and oak… Continue Reading
Today we talk with James Theimer, the principal architect and founder of the Redding-based firm, Trilogy Architecture, the firm that recently won the national Honor Award — First Place for a New Academic Complex. The firm was competing nationally in the category of high performance buildings.
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One of the more inefficient habits that I can’t seem to break myself of is stubbornly maintaining a paper trail in a digital world. I print confirmations of online purchases, email correspondence, even documents sent to me electronically. I can’t… Continue Reading
A sad secret simmers behind thousands of closed doors scattered throughout many middle- and even upper-class Redding neighborhoods: They’re inhabited by poor – seriously poor – people. They live in houses left over from more affluent, carefree times. The truth is that many of those home-owners are so… Continue Reading
What better way to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday then to spend the day exploring The Art of Dr. Seuss, listening to his amazing stories read by local celebrities, and taking part in fun Seuss-inspired activities (including Oobleck, tic-tac-toe and more).… Continue Reading
I talk with Mike Kerns, who, with his wife Nancy, owns the local YAKS coffee houses in Redding. Nancy hails form Albany. Ore, and Mike’s from Mt. Shasta. The couple likes to say that they’ve  lived a life of entrepreneurial successes and… Continue Reading
Today I talk with Ben Miles, Shasta Land Trust’s executive director, about Saturday’s Wildways event in Redding.  Miles has been the SLT’s director since 2008. He holds a Master of Science degree in Environmental Science from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He… Continue Reading
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