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28: Exploring Bourbon’s History, Craft and Community 40: Feijoa Farms Brings New Zealand to Red Bluff
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80: Unique Finds Await at Roses & Rust Marketplace
34: Steve Hosler’s Transformative Year in the Peace Corps
72: Karen Karnatz Helps Navigate Holiday Grief
46: Finding Connection with Tommy Corey’s Bloomline Collective
76: Blue Star Memorial Highway program
52: Elijah Sullivan, The Hole Story 56: Capturing the Chandler Wobble in Ukiah
GOOD FINDS 20: Paul Niess Keeps Chico’s Clocks Ticking
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IN EVERY ISSUE 13: What I Enjoy: Todd Jones
INTEREST
64: Finding Gratitude in Everyday Life
LOCAL ADVENTURE 16: Eight Stops Worth Making in Historic Weaverville
GOOD TIMES
60: Gloria Gordon-Harris on a Lifetime of Learning
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84: Recipe: Thanksgiving Leftovers Hot Pockets 86: Enjoy the View: Frank Kratofil 88: What’s Cookin’: Cranberry Brie Bites 91: Local Events Calendar 98: Giving Back: Heidi Pond, Give Redding
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ON THE COVER: Adaira and Ariah Jones
Gratitude reveals itself in unexpected places: a family memory, a story passed down through generations or even a simple meal made from yesterday’s leftovers. After a month in which we celebrated our 20th anniversary, we are feeling especially grateful for the people who make our communities special, and it’s our honor to introduce you to more of them this month. First, get to know Chico clockmaker Paul Niess, who has kept Father Time Co. ticking from the same downtown storefront since 1995, and Redding native Tommy Corey, whose photography and Bloomline Collective explore the connections that foster authentic belonging. In honor of Veterans Day, meet Navy veteran Gloria Gordon-Harris, whose journey illuminates the value of taking life one day at a time. You’ll also discover how garden clubs honor generations of service members through Blue Star Memorial markers, including many right here in the North State. We also make some room for the harder parts of the season, exploring how to find moments of joy while grieving someone we love. In this season of thanks, we hold tight to the comfort of traditions, the excitement of building new memories and gratitude for the threads that connect us. From the Enjoy family to you and yours, we wish you an abundance of the simple joys that make life rich.
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what I enjoy WHAT DO YOU ENJOY MOST ABOUT LIVING IN THE NORTH STATE? The community. The history, traditions, people, and community spirit make this a great place to live.
Family: Wife Ericka, sons Hunter, Zach and Tanner After meeting so many business owners and community leaders through the Redding Chamber of Commerce, what’s one quality you think the best leaders have in common? The best leaders in town recognize that success is a team sport and that no one individual can do it themselves. If you could have dinner with anyone from history, who would you choose and what would you want to ask them? George Washington. When I was in the U.S. Marine Corps, I was stationed at Fort Belvoir, right next door to Mount Vernon. As active-duty
How long have you lived in the North State? I have lived in the North State most of my life. I grew up in Weaverville, a fact I am incredibly proud of, attended school at Humboldt State University, and have lived in Redding for more than 16 years. My parents and my in-laws all grew up in the North State as well. My kids are now fourth-generation North State natives.
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TODD JONES Former President & CEO, Greater Redding Chamber of Commerce; Incoming Interim Dean of Economic and Workforce Development at Shasta College military, I was able to visit Mount Vernon for free and often spent time there just enjoying his home. I would love to ask him stories about the Revolutionary War, his early quest for freedom from tyranny, and becoming the first president of the United States. If you were guaranteed to win a trophy for something other than your job, what would the trophy be for? Preparation for a road trip. Sunflower seeds, drinks, snacks, blankets for the kids; we are ready for anything. If you had to compete on a game show, which one would give you the best chance of winning? “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” with Regis. I have a great recollection of useless facts, as long as it is not pop culture.
If you had to give a 30-minute presentation with absolutely no preparation, what topic could you confidently talk about? The importance of active forest management, not simply for forest health but also the socioeconomic health of rural communities. If you woke up tomorrow with a superpower what would you hope it would be? The ability to fly. I always wanted to be Superman. Hopefully I would also lose my fear of heights. What’s a movie you’ll stop and watch whenever you stumble across it? “Shawshank Redemption.” I loved watching the reruns on TBS before streaming movies became a thing. If your friends were asked to describe you using only three words, what three words do you think they’d choose? Loyal, fun, great dad.
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ust about an hour west of Redding, Weaverville feels farther away than the mileage suggests. Gold Rush history, Chinese heritage, local art and mountain scenery come together in a town that invites visitors to slow down and look around. You don’t need a packed itinerary, either. Put on comfortable shoes and spend a day discovering some of the places that make Weaverville worth the drive. Plan Ahead: Days and hours of operation can change, so check with individual attractions and businesses before heading out.
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STEP INSIDE THE JOSS HOUSE A visit to Weaverville wouldn’t be complete without stopping at Weaverville Joss House State Historic Park, home to the Temple of the Forest Beneath the Clouds. Built in 1874, it is the oldest continuously used Chinese temple in California and a remarkable reminder of the Chinese immigrants who came to Trinity County during the Gold Rush. Inside are Chinese art objects, religious furnishings, mining tools and weapons from the 1854 Tong War. The temple remains a place of worship today. 630 Main Street (530) 623-5284
STEP FOR LUNCH AT ASIAN TASTE When it’s time for lunch, Asian Taste offers Chinese and Thai favorites in a historic Main Street building directly across from the Joss House. The menu includes everything from pad Thai and fried rice to Chinese chicken salad and traditional favorites. Its location makes it an especially convenient stop during a day of exploring downtown, while adding another connection to Weaverville’s rich Chinese heritage.
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WATCH HISTORY COME TO LIFE Just down Main Street, Jake Jackson Museum tells the larger story of Trinity County through mining equipment, historic clothing, photographs, documents and artifacts from everyday life. Step outside into the adjoining Hal E. Goodyear History Park and there’s even more to see. If your timing is right, watch sparks fly in the working blacksmith shop, where two permanent forges help demonstrate a craft that was essential to the mining towns of the West. The museum also hosts demonstrations, classes, open-forge days and an annual Hammer-In. Nearby, an operational steam-powered stamp mill offers another glimpse into Trinity County’s mining past. The restored machinery represents equipment once used to crush gold-bearing ore and is one of only a few operational steam-powered stamp mills remaining in the country. 780 Main Street • (530) 623-5211
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After lunch, take some time to simply wander. Weaverville offers a self-guided historic downtown walking tour past buildings that have survived generations of change. Keep an eye out for the unusual exterior spiral staircases climbing from the sidewalks to second-story balconies. Three downtown buildings have them, a clever solution created when tightly packed buildings left no room for interior access. Don’t miss the historic Trinity County Courthouse, which dates to 1856 and has served as the county courthouse continuously since 1865. Slow down, look up and notice the architectural details—sometimes the town itself is the attraction. ▶ continued on page 18
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SEE WHAT LOCAL ARTISTS ARE CREATING Weaverville isn’t only about its past. Highland Art Center brings the creative side of Trinity County into the picture. Housed in an 1893 Victorian on Main Street, the center features changing exhibitions and work by regional artists. The historic building is worth seeing in its own right. Art lovers can also wander down Main Street to Main Street Gallery for more locally created artwork and artisan pieces. 691 Main Street • (530) 623-5111
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SAVE ROOM FOR SOMETHING SWEET Finish the day with an old-fashioned treat at Crocketts Up North Confectionery, Eatery & Mercantile. Located on historic Main Street, the confectionery serves more than 24 flavors of ice cream along with shakes, malts, cookies and other sweets. There’s also a sandwich counter and mercantile filled with locally themed and American-made goods. Grab a cone and wander through the shop, or settle onto the deck and watch downtown Weaverville go by.
When you’re ready for a little green space, head to Lee Fong Park, tucked just off Main Street. Walking paths wind through the park past Sydney Gulch Creek and old apple and pear trees, with views toward the Trinity Alps. There are covered picnic areas if you simply want to sit for a while, or bring a disc and try the park’s 18hole disc golf course. It’s an easy way to enjoy some fresh air without committing to a long hike into the mountains. 101 Lorenz Road
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A FEW HOURS OR A FULL DAY The beauty of Weaverville is that you don’t have to check everything off the list. Explore its Chinese heritage, watch a blacksmith work, wander through a gallery, stroll beneath the trees or simply find a spot on Main Street and take it all in. It’s close enough for an easy day trip from Redding, but different enough to feel like you’ve gone somewhere. •
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Cultivate confidence I grew up in Corning working on an olive orchard. The jobs went away and I ended up working at a grocery store at night. There were other jobs I could do, but I didn’t have the education they wanted. I looked around for answers and found Shasta College. My time at the college was amazing! I came in wanting to do the HELO program and work in the woods. I didn’t feel ready for college, or, honestly, that I had what it took to come back to college. But, after working all night, getting off at 4:30 in the morning and driving to Redding for class at 6:00, I started to realize, “Hey, you know what? Maybe I have a little bit more potential than I gave myself credit for!” So, I started looking into going to school longer. I found out I could take the industrial technologies pathway and earn my associate degree. I talked to my counselor, and she said, “You’re already on the pathway, and if you feel up to it, then we’ll sign you up.” Throughout that process, I gained confidence and just started believing in myself. All of my teachers in the HELO program had a big impact on me. That semester was rough with working nights, and I was also taking care of my parents at the time as they were going through some medical problems, but the instructors would always check in and give me positive reinforcement.
Besides the teachers, I couldn’t have done it without the staff members in the Forest Health office, and in the PACE office. I worked with Danielle in PACE, and she helped me see that my needs didn’t set me aside; they set me apart. She showed me that my qualities were something to build on. I’m starting a position with AgSTEP at the farm in Corning, where we’ll help other farm workers like me get an education. Shasta College gave me a huge confidence boost to where now I don’t just want to finish my associate degree—I’ve set myself up to transfer to Chico State to earn my bachelor’s in business management, with plans to pursue an MBA after that. My time here showed me how much I want to help others achieve their own goals and connect them with the resources available. Coming to Shasta College gave life to my dreams! Rigo Shasta College Knight
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aul Niess runs his shop, Father Time Co., from the same storefront on Main Street in downtown Chico—its shelves lined with clocks that have outlasted the people who wound them. On most days, he’s bent over a bench, fixing timepieces most people would call unfixable. “I opened the shop in 1995 with $1,000,” he said. “There was not much in the shop at the beginning. Growth was slow and steady. My shop has stayed in the same location for 31 years.” He didn’t learn the trade from a textbook. His grandmother introduced him to it as a boy, connecting him with Herbert Greene, a master clockmaker who took him on as an apprentice at age 10. “When I was a boy, I was very close to my grandma, who connected me with Herbert Greene, a master clockmaker,” Niess said. “At 10, I began my apprenticeship with Greene. What an education that was. I would not be here today if not for my grandma’s introduction and Herbert’s mentorship.” ▶ continued on page 22
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“Fixing Daniel W ebster’s pocket watch was a pretty cool experience, but it was pretty daunting,” he said. “I was working on another piece worth $1 million. I ’m in my little shop in Chico, fixing this incredibly valuable piece. Talk about intimidating.”
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For years, he spent his weekends and school vacations at Greene’s side, learning by watching and repeating rather than by reading. “You can’t beat one-on-one education,” he said. “Any situation can be addressed immediately on the spot. With Herb, I would spend countless hours learning from him on weekends and vacations.” By the time he enrolled at Chico State, he already had a second teacher. He studied history, psychology and education during the day and spent his evenings at the bench of Virgil Baker, another master watchmaker. Two mentors from two different corners of the craft gave him something almost nobody entering the trade gets anymore: real time at a real bench. Niess said there are very few places in the United States that teach clockmaking.
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“It’s a perfect storm for clockmakers right now. The average age of a clockmaker is about 80, and they are dropping fast. And there are very few behind them. What actually happens to a 200-year-old clock once nobody is left to fix it?” He answers that question at his own bench, one part at a time. When something is missing or worn beyond repair, he doesn’t order a generic replacement. He mills and lathes a new one himself, and if it doesn’t sit right, he scrapes it and starts over. That habit has carried real weight. A fusee pocket watch that once belonged to Daniel Webster passed through his shop. “Fixing Daniel Webster’s pocket watch was a pretty cool experience, but it was pretty daunting,” he said. “I was working on another piece worth $1 million. I’m in my little shop in Chico, fixing this incredibly valuable piece. Talk about intimidating.” Rolex and Patek Philippe watches have crossed his bench, too, alongside Willard Banjo clocks and pieces with no market value at all: a 1904 kitchen clock, a soldier’s wristwatch carried through the First World War, a pocket watch scarred when its owner’s grandfather was shot and killed in Europe some 70 years before it reached Niess. He once recognized a clock that had belonged to Chico’s second mayor, sitting unlabeled in a downtown dump shop. Niess keeps thousands of timepieces at Father Time rather than sell the collection down, some dating to the 1800s. In an earlier interview with Action News Now, he▶ continued on page 25
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“My grandfather always used to say, ‘Leave your work in your overalls,’ ” Niess said. “When I get home, I honor my grandfather. Home is for family.” explained that the choice isn’t really about business. “Eventually the day will come when I retire and all this stuff will be gone,” he told the station, framing the shop as something closer to a public collection that also takes in repairs, a place where people can still see what the 19th century actually built. The shop also keeps a foot in the community beyond its doors. Niess accepts donations on behalf of Butte County Search and Rescue, a steady arrangement that has nothing to do with clocks and everything to do with the kind of neighbor he’s been in Chico. Away from the shop, Niess draws a hard line that most repairmen would understand. He credits it to his grandfather, a master metalsmith who emigrated from Germany. “My grandfather always used to say, ‘Leave your work in your overalls,’” Niess said. “When I get home, I honor my grandfather. Home is for family.” • 225 Main St., Suite K, Chico • (530) 342-4236 www.fathertimecompany.com
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There also are some fun semantics. All bourbon is whiskey, yet not all whiskeys are bourbons. By law, a bourbon must be produced in the United States from a mash bill (grain mix) of at least 51 percent corn and stored at a maximum of 125 proof in charred new American oak barrels. The final product cannot exceed 160 proof. A happy confluence of fertile corn-growing soil, tradition, climate and abundant limestone-filtered groundwater has made Kentucky the king of bourbon-producing states. Bourbon is a $10.6 billion industry, says the Kentucky Distillers Association, and the state’s 138 licensed distilleries have more than 17 million barrels (53 gallons each) currently aging in rickhouses. Neighboring Tennessee shares many of the same attributes, but the Volunteer State puts its own spin on spirits. To be labeled Tennessee Whiskey (think Jack Daniel’s or George Dickel), it must adhere to Kentucky’s bourbon regulations, plus it must be produced solely within the state of Tennessee and be filtered through sugar-maple charcoal. Rosie Storey, a bartender at Market Street Blade & Barrel, says she developed an interest in bourbon early in her 19-year career, “when I noticed how much history and depth the spirit had.” Experimenting with cocktails and talking to other enthusiasts “helped me develop a deeper appreciation for its craftsmanship and variety.” Soon after, she says her interest became a genuine passion. Storey enjoys matching bourbon’s myriad flavors and styles with her customers’ preferences. “If I can hit the mark by asking a few questions about their preferences, it builds a relationship with that customer. I often get repeat customers who ask for something I suggest regularly. It can be fun and rewarding.” For newcomers to the bourbon world, Storey often recommends “approachable” spirits like Woodford Reserve, Maker’s Mark, Elijah Craig Small Batch and “I love anything by Michter’s.” For experienced bourbon drinkers looking to splurge a bit, Storey suggests Weller Full Proof, Orphan Barrel Fanged Pursuit, Penelope Marshmallow Toast or Blood Oath Pact No.11. “These choices are personal but they offer a range of flavors and experiences, from a very traditional, smooth, silky mouthfeel to bourbon finished in an anejo barrel.” ▶ continued on page 32
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Bourbon wasn’t always in vogue, says Redding native Chris Ennis, a sommelier and concierge in San Francisco who currently works at Total Wine & More in Daly City. Consumer tastes shifted toward clear spirits like vodka in the 1980s and bourbon sales slumped. A bit of pop-culture nostalgia (“Mad Men,” anyone?) and trendy craft cocktails brought a resurgence in the 2000s. “About 10 years ago, a lot of these small-batch bourbons came out and people started collecting them,” Ennis says. “There’s a whole collectible community and a phone chain. ‘Do you have Pappy, Eagle Rare 10 or Blanton’s?’ When they’re available, the word goes out.” Anthony Wahbi, who manages Bob’s Liquors on Hartnell Avenue for his father, Amin, features anywhere from 80 to 100 different bourbons in his well-stocked store. He says the world of whiskey is constantly changing, making it interesting on the retail side and fun for his regular customers who stop in to check on what’s available and talk about recent discoveries and trends. “I like the community it brings,” Wahbi says. “There have been some real friendships” that started with bourbon-based conversations in the store and blossomed from there. Cultivating relationships with distributors is another piece of the liquor business, especially around the holidays in what Wahbi calls “allocation season.” The tighter the bonds, the better chances of receiving coveted bottles, he says. Wahbi put his bourbon knowledge to good use when helping his father set up the “hidden” speakeasy in the back room of Anthony’s Mediterranean Bar & Grill in downtown Redding. The bar in Amin Wahbi’s intimate room is loaded with hundreds of different whiskeys. •
Jon Lewis is a Redding-based writer with more than 40 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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The Peace Corps was pretty new then and it was really dynamic and inspirational.
Hosler and his companions were part of Micro 12, the twelfth group to serve in Micronesia. They were welcomed by Peace Corps officials, other volunteers and local leaders. After a few days, Hosler was assigned to a local family for room and board. “You’re going into these houses, and they treat you like a king,” Hosler says. “You move in with the family and they start the cultural immersion, learning the language and customs. But the food, that was where it got interesting. A lot of it was mostly canned meats and vegetables from Argentina, Australia and New Zealand. A lot of Spam and rice. They’d always have a big pot of rice cooking, but the rice all had weevils in it. So, you just kind of had to get used to that. The breadfruit and sweet potatoes they grew themselves. They would always serve me first and they had this big table in the room where they cooked, and they would sit me down by myself and give me canned beef tongue—cold. And they’re all sitting around watching you eat. You want to be culturally sensitive and stuff, but it was pretty tough.” His host home had concrete walls, screened windows and electricity, but no running water. The family collected rainwater and used an outhouse beside the ocean called a banjo. “They lived in family group compounds, so they’d get an old reel-toreel movie projector and put on these old spaghetti westerns,” Hosler
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“Their biggest industry was copra (dried coconut meat),” Hosler says. “And then trochus shells, which are used to make buttons and jewelry. It was interesting because you go with these high ideals, but the culture is such that it was very clannish, a caste system almost. So, if you had a credit union or co-op, which were just little tin shacks with a shelf and a window that would sell rice and Spam, but if a (highly regarded) family wanted something, you couldn’t refuse it.” The Chuuk islands have a long history of foreign control, including Spanish, German and Japanese occupation. In February 1944, a massive U.S. Navy attack known as Operation Hailstone destroyed 12 Japanese warships, 32 merchant ships and 275 grounded aircraft, making Chuuk Lagoon “the biggest graveyard of ships in the world.”
“After I got out of the Peace Corps, I traveled for a year around the world,” Hosler says. “I think both experiences gave me a PhD in life. In 1969, William A. Brown and legendary oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and his team explored the lagoon. Cousteau’s subsequent 1971 documentary helped make the atoll a major destination for wreck-diving enthusiasts. Hosler spent countless hours exploring the sunken ships, now encrusted with coral and surrounded by reef fish. The experience ignited a lifelong passion for scuba diving and he helped establish a dive shop in Chuuk that exists today. “You’d see these ships, huge ships, where the torpedoes hit them,” Hosler says. “The metal of the ship would just be peeled back and there’d be this big hole in the side of the ship. You’d see downed airplanes, Zeros and Betty Bombers.” A year after arriving in Chuuk, Hosler left the Pacific many pounds lighter and with an even greater curiosity about the world. “After I got out of the Peace Corps, I traveled for a year around the world,” Hosler says. “I think both experiences gave me a PhD in life. It just opened my eyes to what the world was like, what people were like, what the United States is like—how we’re seen in the world and how we see other people in the world.” Decades later, he remains connected to the Peace Corps community and its mission. “The Peace Corps—it’s a 50/50 proposition,” Hosler says. “You’re giving 50 percent of information and knowledge and skills to the people that you’re working with. And you’re getting 50 percent back of learning how to live with a different culture, understand different people, how to get along with different people and how to listen to other people.” Returned Peace Corps volunteers interested in joining a local group may contact Terry and Marilyn Thomas at trandmethomas@yahoo.com. Any returned Peace Corps volunteers who are interested in joining a local retired Peace Corps volunteer group may contact Terry and Marilyn Thomas at trandmethomas@yahoo.com. • Jill Tydor is a Baton Rouge, Louisiana native who has chosen the North State as her home. She is a writer and marketer with an MFA from California College of the Arts. Jill enjoys traveling, sunny days, and spicy food.
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a fruitful mission erhaps it’s his Bible College roots, but Jonathan Carter is an evangelist for the feijoa, one of the greatest fruits you may have never heard of. The native New Zealander is working with wife Dawn to spread the news and availability of it throughout the country right from a farm in Red Bluff. “When you have a good feijoa—and they’re all good— but when you get a really good one, you almost don’t want to stop,” says Carter. “It’s a crazy fun fruit. I grew up eating it as a child in New Zealand. Even then it was New Zealand’s favorite fruit. It’s tantalizing to the palette. It’s so complex that when you take a bite your brain does a little fizz because it’s so good.
“No one is growing them commercially. I want to grow them for my kids,” he says of his farm. He originally started growing in Vancouver, Washington, where he also grew blueberries and Christmas trees but found the climate inhospitable for the fruit. The couple found Red Bluff by way of trips south to visit their daughter at Azusa Pacific University. They would frequently stay overnight in the North State town, as it is halfway from Washington to Azusa. The farm was planted in late 2019 and is coming into its third harvest, which Carter anticipates being his largest yet. The couple has settled in Redding. It was a trip through Home Depot in Washington that got Carter started on this American adventure. He was stopped in his tracks upon finding feijoa bushes being sold as decorative outdoor plants. He bought all seven available. “I was already growing grapes and cherries,” he says. I decided to just grow them in the front yard. They grew to a nice size.”▶ continued on page 42
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He eventually cloned them and started cultivating as a more serious venture and realized they didn’t thrive in the local climate. In Red Bluff the couple have 28 varieties of Feijoa, including three of their own, all certified organic. Giving his kids a taste of his childhood is one thing, but the Carters are reminding hundreds of others of the tastes of their homelands by sending his harvests to Washington state, where they are devoured by immigrants from the Republic of Georgia and Russia, where the fruit is common and appreciated. Georgia, New Zealand and Brazil are all large feijoa producing countries where the fruit is particularly beloved. These communities quickly found the Carters’ fruit after their daughter built a website for the farm. “Within days we got a call from Washington state,” says Carter. “A guy sent trucks to pick up the fruit.” Now most fruit goes to Washington, but Holiday Market in Redding also sells it. “We did a farmers market in Redding just for fun and we sold out,” he adds. The couple is considering a you-pick model on the farm and more farmers markets, but have to consider time and labor needs.
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While most of the Carters’ feijoas are sold fresh, the possibilities are nearly endless in how they can be used. “In New Zealand it’s in everything,” says Carter. “Jam, crumble. It’s kind of got a cult following. It makes a world-class cider and kombucha. We can’t keep the raw feijoa apple juice on the shelves.” There is even a Feijoa Appreciation Group online that boasts upwards of 60,000 members. Carter suggests that people new to the fruit should “go ahead and try three or four of them because they all taste different. Eat four or five in one sitting and
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see which one blows your mind the most.” “It’s new here, but it’s going to catch on,” says Carter of his favorite fruit. He likes to tell the story of riding in an elevator with his son in New Zealand with an elderly woman clutching a bag of fresh feijoas to her chest. With a twinkle in her eye, she said to the father and son, “I’m going to have to hide these from my husband.” That’s the kind of experience Carter wants for Americans. With all of the challenges of creating a farm in a new state and introducing a food to a new audience, Carter says with enthusiasm, “I’m kind of as passionate as I was before I started.” • Feijoa Farms www.feijoafarms.com
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or some, the outdoors is a place to escape reality, to seek solitude, to remove oneself from the world’s noise. For artist Tommy Corey, it’s also a place to create connection and community in a world that needs a whole lot more of both. Corey is a photographer, filmmaker and author whose creative work focuses on belonging, empathy, human connection and diversity, mostly in the outdoors. A Redding native, he picked up a camera at age 12, using his father’s Olympus OM-1 to take portraits of friends and family. “My dad said, ‘You can have this one, and if you stick with it, I’ll buy you your own,’” Corey says. He stuck with it. His artistic and entrepreneurial endeavors began with The Self-Worth Project, a portrait series he created in his early 20s to shine light on grief, resilience and personal identity by making breathtaking portraits of people with a word representing their deepest insecurity written on their body. After he hiked the Pacific Crest Trail, he built Hiker Trash Vogue, an editorial-style photo project that challenged outdoor stereotypes by crafting portraits of unshowered long-distance hikers posing as fashion models. Then in 2025, he published “All Humans Outside,” a hardcover coffee table book featuring photos and stories highlighting a diverse array of people who find healing and community in the outdoors.
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That brought him to actualize Bloomline Collective, a creative publication and studio platform that explores stories around community, art, food, culture and the outdoors. He’s enlisting various storytellers to produce narratives and visuals that focus on authentic human connection. “After my book, I wanted to still be storytelling, but not solely focus on one thing,” Corey says. “I want to focus on what’s good with the world. I want all the stories to come back to community, how people are connecting with others.” In Corey’s words, Bloomline encapsulates “bloom” (“the symbiosis, support and growth that happens when we nurture one another,” he says) and “line,” that invisible thread that connects diverse human beings. He envisions Bloomline Collective blossoming into a space where connections and community can thrive through photography, storytelling and conversations. Some folks he has featured so far include Redding filmmaker Tyler Faires, as well as a hiker Corey met on the Pacific Crest Trail who created an entire soundmap of the trail so anyone can experience that piece of it.▶ continued on page 48 NOVEMBER 2026
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Under the Bloomline umbrella is “Built By Redding,” which Corey describes as “a creative historical project highlighting 101 individuals who have helped shape the city’s economic, environmental and cultural landscape.” Once the stories are collected, he plans to publish them in a hardcover book. He also envisions holding live events and speaker series featuring some of the people spotlighted in the project. The theme of community and connection that runs through each of his projects wasn’t necessarily intentional. “As a kid, I always felt like I didn’t fit in or feel that sense of belonging with anyone other than my family,” he says. “For ‘All Humans Outside,’ I’d photographed everyone for two-and-a-half years, then sat down for six months to write all the stories in one go, and you can’t really write these stories without speaking about community. Every single person who talked about the outdoors talked about how they brought community in. I think nature and belonging are deeply embedded in us as human beings — the need to belong and the need to connect with the earth.” His love of the outdoors is rooted in some of his earliest memories, brought closer to the surface with the recent passing of his father, Tim Corey. Tim and Bobbie Corey were both born and raised in Redding, and chose to remain here to raise their four children. Perusing thousands of photos to prepare for his father’s memorial service changed his perspective on his photography work. “Now I’m realizing it transports me,” he says. For instance, he recalls camping at Deadfall Lakes in the Trinity Alps with his family. “There would be like seven kids and my dad, and we’d be feral, making fart jokes in the meadow,” he says with a laugh. “In the outdoors, I got to see my dad clearly. I got to see this really complicated person in my life truly as he was. And I think that’s what nature does for a lot of people; it strips you down.” Being outdoors “gives you time to exist without boundaries,” Corey says. “Nature is beautiful. It’s expansive. It’s always given me space to think and dream and create without limits. We’ve created this image of what an outdoorsy person is — top athletes, people who hike the PCT, people who bike across Europe. But really, if you like being outside, then you’re outdoorsy, whether that’s going on a trail run, a backpacking trip, or sitting on a park bench by the river. Honestly, sometimes it’s just waiting an extra 30 minutes at a restaurant to sit on the patio.” And when he dreams about the future, he envisions life beyond the divisiveness that seems to permeate the world today. “I hope we can all be better neighbors to each other, especially right now,” Corey says. “I hope we can all be better to each other. Human connection is the biggest form of protest to all of this.” •
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digging deeper ELIJAH S U L L I VA N , T H E H O L E S TO RY hen Elijah Sullivan started making his documentary about a local unsolved crime, he thought he was going to solve the mystery. “The movie is about the discovery of a 60-foot hole on Mount Shasta that became an urban legend in an area already filled with urban legends,” he says. “I caught it at the moment where the facts were starting to become forgotten and the speculation was becoming the story.” For Sullivan, the bizarre tale surrounding “the hole” offered a way into a larger story about the community he was raised in. “I’ve always wanted to do a movie about Mount Shasta, but it’s such a vast, complex subject that I didn’t have a good frame for it,” he says. “I needed something that could contain the crazy but was still watchable.” Like many locals, Sullivan had an immediate theory about what had happened. “The first thing I thought was what most locals thought, which was that if we tell stories about an ancient civilization beneath the mountain, somebody would eventually show up with a shovel and go looking for it,” he says. “It ended up being a lot more complicated than that.” That complication became Sullivan’s feature-length documentary entitled “The Hole Story,” and a 10-year effort to understand how stories take root and shape a community. “When I started the movie, I really thought I was going to get to the bottom of it—forgive the pun—and bring the truth out,” he says. “I thought I was going to be able to get certain things on the record, and it would be this ▶ continued on page 54
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“I tried to let people talk and tell their stories,” he says. “I let it be complicated and messy, rather than turn it into a comedy about people with funny hats or a sensationalistic thriller. The story speaks for itself.” bombshell thing.” Instead, the film became more human. “What I ended up getting was more of an oral history, where people described their personal involvement,” Sullivan says. “Not all of the facts meshed. That pointed toward a different question about why people remember things in certain ways and what that says about them. Why do people believe what they believe? What needs are their beliefs fulfilling, and what are they choosing to ignore?” Sullivan came to see that those questions reached far beyond his hometown. “I grew up in a community where fringe belief is embraced, and everybody is encouraged to be themselves, maybe even to a fault,” he says. “Then, watching what goes on in the world, I realized that this is happening everywhere.” That realization also helped shape the film’s restrained style. Sullivan does not appear or narrate, and he rarely resolves contradictions. “I tried to let people talk and tell their stories,” he says. “I let it be complicated and messy, rather than turn it into a comedy about people with funny hats or a sensationalistic thriller. The story speaks for itself.”
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Bringing that story home proved intimidating. When it opened locally, the film played during the final 10 days of Mount Shasta Cinemas, where Sullivan once worked. “It was bittersweet,” he says. “It was a dual celebration of seeing Mount Shasta on the screen, but it was also saying goodbye to our movie theater.” It was also a huge success. In a town of roughly 3,200 people, the film sold more than 1,000 tickets in 10 days. “It’s pretty mind-boggling to me,” Sullivan says. “It would be such an honor if it stuck around in the cultural memory for a little while.” So far, the film has received huge acclaim on the independent film festival circuit, with a highly coveted acceptance to Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where “The Hole Story” was among a handful of films selected from 9,000 or so submissions. “I submitted to Slamdance thinking I was going to get rejected and should just get that out of the way. Then I got accepted, which blew my mind, and everything has been a blur since.” That blur has included other notable screenings at festivals like the Ashland Independent Film Festival and The Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, among others. It was even featured on NPR’s “This American Life.” The film’s overall reception far eclipsed the project Sullivan first imagined when he heard about “the hole” over drinks with friends in 2012. “I was immediately obsessed with it,” he recalls. “I knew how to file a FOIA request, and I knew a little about film production. I figured the people I’m interviewing are all in my community. The crime scene is up the street from my house. I thought maybe it would take me a summer.” Instead, the project became a 14-year-plus odyssey of patience, resourcefulness and determination. But in the end, the creation of the film only cost Sullivan $700 outof-pocket. It cost a lot more in sweat equity. “I started this in my late 20s, and I’m now 41,” Sullivan says. “There were individual shots where I’d spend three days getting the right shot of a lenticular cloud. I spent years filming clouds. I have terabytes of footage of clouds.” Sullivan is ready to start another project, but doubts he’ll ever let go of the mystery that first inspired him. “As obsessed as I am with this story, I’m sure I’ll never stop,” he says with a laugh. “But whatever I make next, I’m sure it won’t be made far from here. After this, it’s much easier to tell myself I’m a filmmaker. I’ve done it, and I can do it from where I live. I don’t have to move to Hollywood.”•
Megan Peterson is a freelance storyteller from the real Northern California—something she likes to remind friends south of Sacramento. Her work spans more than 500 hours of television for a variety of networks, in addition to print, film, podcasts, and audio tours. She loves adventure and great conversation, and was once chased by a hippo.
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C A P T U R I N G T H E C H A N D L E R WO B B L E I N U K I A H rom the outside, Ukiah’s Observatory Park may look just like any other ordinary city park, filled with grass, trees, a loop trail and two white house-like buildings. However, this location holds a lot more significance than initially meets the eye, especially at night, as it is one of the six places in the world on the 39th parallel that captures the “Chandler Wobble.” Using state-of-the-art telescopes to monitor the night skies, astronomers had long been studying the stars when they realized the Earth spun a little bit off axis. They were perplexed, because although these high-end telescopes were fixed on piers in a set location, the latitude its instruments measured showed some variance a little bit to the north and a little bit to the south. By the late 1800s, observers suspected that the planet’s poles were moving, skewing the grid of latitude and longitude. To get to the root of what was going on, the Ukiah Latitude Observatory was one of the few International Latitude Observatories financed by the International Geodetic Association (the others were in Gaithersburg, MD; Carloforte, Italy; and Mizusawa, Japan). Established in 1899, all observatories had identical zenith telescopes and one main goal—to figure out why the fixed astronomical instruments seemed to wander anywhere from 30-70 feet every year. Therefore, they all went out
and measured their latitudes using the same instruments and data-collecting methods, later confirming the Chandler Wobble exists. Built in 1899, the buildings within Observatory Park aren’t what people typically picture when they hear the word “observatory”, but it was state-of-the-art at its time. “People expect to come here and see a dome, but it’s not,” says Grace Hudson Museum Curator of Education and Exhibits Alyssa Boge. Since it only cares about tracking the stars from the north and south, it has a slideout roof directing stargazers toward those poles. “Observers used to push the roof open with a broom and use a pulley system to close it. And it looks like there are shutters on the building, but it’s actually an extra wall of louvers to make sure the temperature is the same inside and out, otherwise the telescope doesn’t capture everything,” Boge adds. A meridian building is directly north of it, which the observatory pointed to. “Back in the day, an observer would turn on a light on top of that building and line a telescope up with it. Then they’d measure star pairs, using a sidereal clock connected to a chronograph to mark when the stars passed,” says Boge. Since the zenith has been moved to the office, the observatory is basically an empty building with a concrete pier under a sliding roof. ▶ continued on page 58
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With the help of Martin Bradley, founder of Friends of Observatory Park, Boge helped pull together the history of Ukiah’s place in the decades-old international effort to document the Chandler Wobble. Eight men worked at the Observatory between 1899 and 1982 until advancements in technologies rendered the Chandler Wobble tracking practice obsolete, starting with Frank Schlesinger who moved to Ukiah, married, and had a family while taking observations. In 1903, he left and became Yale University’s Observatory director. It is interesting to look at some of the historical documents of why observations couldn’t be made on a particular night—along with cloudy skies sometimes obscuring the stars, there was that time when the observer’s horse ran away or one astronomer had boils on his face, affecting his ability to peer through the telescope. Therefore, more stations were also added along the 39th parallel to collect more data, which helps tamper some of those outliers. Although documenting the Chandler Wobble has changed quite a bit, local geodesist Steve Olson still likes to take his theodolite telescope to the Ukiah Latitude
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Observatory to track the Chandler Wobble (as well as give public demonstrations when allowed). The last time he was at Observatory Park at night with a group of people, the earth was wobbling. “You could see some latitude increase and longitude decrease a bit,” he says. When asked why tracking the Chandler Wobble is important, he replies, “you don’t want military missiles going to the wrong place. It started out as a curiosity [understanding the Earth’s rotation] but it’s important for weapons targeting.” Boge sees a different message in the importance of the Ukiah Latitude Observatory. “The thing I like to drive home with people is that it’s not about the sky, it’s about the international cooperation. This has been an international effort that’s lasted for eight decades—through World War I, the Cold War, World War II. These countries were literally fighting each other and still sending in data. “This place is about tracking the movement of the earth and a decades-long international effort to understand it. I think it’s a random, little delightful thing.” • Kayla Anderson is a freelance writer and coauthor of Moon Travel Guides’ Best of California State Parks and Northern California Road Trips. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from CSU, Chico and loves to read, write, and explore the North State and beyond.
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t’s nice that I can see the mountain and not somebody’s house,” explains Gloria R. Gordon-Harris. She’s referring to her view of Mt. Shasta, the steadfast and physical landmark of where she lives now. But getting to this place took Gordon-Harris a lifetime of climbing mountains of a different sort. The first adventure came in 1965, when, fresh out of high school, she left California for Navy basic training in Bainbridge, Maryland. “I was in high school, and my dad suggested the military. At the time, I was thinking, you’ve got to be kidding me,” she recounts with a smile. “But then, I started checking in with the Army, then the Navy and the Air Force. I knew I didn’t want to go in the Army or the Marine Corps because they yelled at you, so I chose the Navy.” Gordon-Harris hadn’t joined with any grand plan. “I didn’t really know what I wanted to do in my life. It was kind of a security blanket,” she says. “By leaving home to go into the military, I got a place to live, food, medical, a job and training.” What Gordon-Harris ended up with was something much bigger. “I learned to grow up,” she explains. Boot camp was her first lesson in simply putting one foot in front of the other. “The one thing I had to learn there to survive was take one day at a time, because it just became “I was in high school, overwhelming,” Gordon-Harris says. “I had to only think and my dad suggested about today…what I could accomplish and what I needed get done. I couldn’t think about anything else.” Her the military. At the time, to father, a World War II veteran, gave her another reason to I was thinking, you’ve keep climbing. Gordon-Harris recalls him rarely saying the words “I love you,” but while she was in boot camp, he got to be kidding me.” sent her a letter telling her how proud he was and how much he loved her. “After that, everything I did was to make him even prouder.” It wasn’t long before Gordon-Harris began to discover just how far she could go. After boot camp, she became a Navy yeoman, eventually transferring to Pensacola, Florida, where she worked in public relations and legal services with a squadron that trained pilots for air-to-air gunnery and carrier qualifications. She watched the students take part in gunnery runs, pulling high G-forces and coming back excited, claiming that the experience was “better than sex.” Gordon-Harris was intrigued. “I sat there, thinking, ‘hmm, I think I want to try to land on the aircraft carrier, so I went to the commanding officer and told him that, and he said, ‘Whoa, nobody’s ever asked us that before,’” she says. “They called the Navy Times and the photographers and everything, and I went out and had five arrested landings and five catapult shots.” ▶ continued on page 62
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“I sat there, thinking, ‘hmm, I think I want to try to land on the aircraft carrier, so I went to the commanding officer and told him that, and he said, ‘Whoa, nobody’s ever asked us that before,’” she says. “They called the Navy Times and the photographers and everything, and I went out and had five arrested landings and five catapult shots.”
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Gordon-Harris is quick to clarify that she wasn’t a pilot; women would not become military pilots for years. But she earned the qualifications to fly in the back seat of a jet, including training in an ejection seat, pressure chamber and survival. An arrested landing meant a tailhook catching a cable across the carrier deck. “You get a real jolt,” she describes. Then came the catapult. “They hook you up to a catapult. It’s like a slingshot, and they shoot you off the ship. Your whole body is pressed back for about 18 seconds, and then when you’re released, the plane takes this little dip, and then it takes off, and when you take that little dip, it’s like, ‘oh, my gosh.’ Then you can do barrel rolls, whatever you want to do.” This same young woman who had entered the Navy looking for a “security blanket” was becoming someone who sought out challenges. And Gordon-Harris kept climbing. Following her father’s advice to get as much education as she could, she took courses in photo interpretation, programming, career counseling, instruction and leadership during her years in the Navy Reserve. “They’d say, ‘Well, you’re a yeoman. Do you want to work in the office? And I’d say, no, I’m here to go to school.” That education eventually led to a civilian career as a systems analyst. “When I first started out on computers, everything was a key punch card,” she says. “And so, I’ve watched it grow into what it is today.”
After 25 years, Gordon-Harris was still in service to the Navy as a reservist. But, during Desert Storm, a freeze was placed on leave and vacations. “They told me that meant everyone except me because I was retiring. I said, ‘What? I don’t want to retire.’” But eventually, GordonHarris made her exit. She returned to California, married “the love of her life”—a man she’d first met way back in high school—and moved to Mount Shasta to be with him. His passing in 2024 devastated her, but she finds great solace and community through veteran groups and her work with Healing Hearts. Now, as she watches the seasons change across Mt. Shasta, she does so with satisfaction. After a lifetime of climbing, Gordon-Harris feels settled. “One of my daughters lives in Windsor, and the other lives down near Walnut Creek, so they want me to move down there. But there are too many people. Besides, I really love the view from here.”•
Megan Peterson is a freelance storyteller from the real Northern California—something she likes to remind friends south of Sacramento. Her work spans more than 500 hours of television for a variety of networks, in addition to print, film, podcasts, and audio tours. She loves adventure and great conversation, and was once chased by a hippo.
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It’s easy to be thankful for the big things: Family, friends, good health, a roof over our heads. They’re the blessings we count around the Thanksgiving table, the things we mention when someone asks what we’re grateful for. But what about the little things? The first sip of coffee on a chilly morning. Finding a parking spot right in front of the store. A favorite song coming on the radio just when you need it. The unexpected kindness of a stranger who holds the door when your hands are full. These moments rarely make it onto our gratitude lists, yet they’re often the ones that make an ordinary day feel extraordinary. Here in the North State, we have plenty of little things worth appreciating. The glow of autumn sunlight filtering through the trees on the Sacramento River Trail. The crunch of fallen leaves beneath our feet. That first cool breeze after a long, hot summer. The sight of Mount Shasta on a crystal-clear morning. Sometimes, it’s as simple as stepping outside and noticing what’s been there all along. We’re often so busy moving from one obligation to the next that we forget to look around. We rush through breakfast, hurry to appointments and mentally rehearse tomorrow’s to-do list before today is even finished. But gratitude doesn’t require a grand gesture or a life-changing event. Sometimes, it just requires paying attention.
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Think about the people who quietly brighten your day. The barista who remembers your order. The neighbor who brings in your trash cans. The coworker who makes you laugh during a stressful afternoon. The friend who sends a text just to say hello. These small acts of kindness might seem insignificant to the person offering them, but they can make a lasting impression on the person receiving them. And the wonderful thing about gratitude is that it has a way of spreading. A sincere compliment, a handwritten note or a simple “I appreciate you” can turn someone’s day around. Sometimes, it takes only a few seconds to make someone feel seen. Not every day is going to be wonderful. There will be frustrating mornings, disappointing news, long lines and plans that don’t work out. Being grateful doesn’t mean pretending everything is perfect. It means recognizing that even on difficult days, there may be something good tucked into the corners. Maybe it’s a phone call from an old friend. A dog greeting you like you’ve been gone for years when you only stepped outside for the mail. A warm blanket on a rainy afternoon. Or the satisfaction of crossing one more thing off a seemingly endless to-do list. The little things don’t erase life’s challenges, but they can make them easier to navigate. As November brings shorter days and the familiar bustle of the holidays approaches, perhaps the best way to celebrate this season of thanks is to slow down just enough to notice what’s right in front of us. Look for one small thing each day that makes you smile. Better yet, share it with someone. Because when we start paying attention, we may discover that the little things aren’t so little after all.•
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H ol ding Space K A R E N K A R N AT Z H E L P S N AV I G AT E H O L I D AY G R I E F For many of us, the holiday season is a celebratory time of year, marked by family visits, holiday tunes, office parties, gift exchanges and far more sweet treats than one should reasonably consume. Twinkling lights and animated displays illuminate more than just windows and front yards—they often light up hearts, too. But for those grieving the death of a loved one, those holiday lights can feel blinding, and that festive energy can feel like a painful reminder of who they’ve lost. That’s where Karen “Joko” Karnatz of Mourning Space comes in. As an end-of-life and grief doula who has spent 27 years working in funeral homes and cemeteries, Karnatz has held families through their grief. Karnatz attended the San Francisco College of Mortuary Science in 1997 and has held licenses as an embalmer, funeral director, crematory manager, cemetery manager and broker. She has served as an area manager overseeing locations in California, Oregon and Washington. After 2020, she earned certifications as an end-of-life doula and grief support specialist. In 2025, Karnatz left the funeral industry to pursue Mourning Space full time. “I have been supporting people after someone they loved has died all my adult life. I have also allowed myself to be a student of behavior—noticing family dynamics, the feelings families express, the struggles and the blessings they face, the stories of bedsides, the confusion and frustration before, during and after death,” says Karnatz. Death is often a scary subject matter, Karnatz says, because “we aren’t taught how to navigate it. Our western culture teaches us to ‘buckle up, stay strong, and get back out there’ instead of sit with our grief and maybe even make friends with it.”▶ continued on page 75
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“It’s just what I am meant to do. I hold your hand while you do the hard thing, and it is the most fulfilling work I could do.”
Karnatz offers some simple ways to support healing and find some joy during the holidays and beyond, even when you’re grieving:
Karnatz considers herself a lifelong student of grief, death and dying, which has taken the fear factor out of it for her: “I am not afraid of your grief. I am not afraid of death. I will not look at you like you have four heads if it has been a year and you are still sad about losing your person. I will not tell you to get over it and I will not shy away from your tears.” Her familiarity with the subject has given her the ability to work with grace and humility even during the hardest moments: “I accept that grief looks different to people and I meet people where they are. There are a lot of difficult moments in these times, but the glimmers and the liminal, sacred spaces, and the way we grow and evolve through grief can also be inspiring,” says Karnatz. Karnatz draws strength from her faith, community, friends, nature and her husband, who has been her biggest cheerleader and greatest support, including her decision to create Mourning Space. “As much as I went through the motions of the career and the education, I believe the work chose me. It’s just what I am meant to do. I hold your hand while you do the hard thing, and it is the most fulfilling work I could do.” During the holidays, when joy and celebration are the socially accepted default setting, the absence of a loved one can loom especially large. “The first holiday without your loved one feels big—it makes their loss more real. We are reminded sharply of the way our person is not here in a time we typically reserve for making special memories with the people we love,” Karnatz says. That feeling of mismatch, Karnatz says, is part of what social programming has taught us: that grief is not welcome. Grief may not just show up as melancholy. Irritability, anger, guilt, anxiety, numbness, loneliness, exhaustion and even joy and subsequent guilt for feeling joyful can be ways grief manifests. Social batteries often run very low for those who are grieving.
Set some boundaries. Consider what comfort looks like for you as you are grieving. Do you need to be around more or fewer people? Do you want to attend more or fewer events? Think about your limits: how much time you can spend at an event, topics you are willing to discuss and whether you can accept an invitation at all. Here are some phrases that can help you state your needs: “I will attend your event, but I will only stay an hour.”* “I’d love for people to feel open to talk to me about [name], as it makes me feel better to speak freely about them.”* “I’d rather no one mention [name] as I am not in a space to want to talk about them right now.”* Give yourself permission to take a year off the holidays. Lower your expectations and don’t allow the expectations of others to get in the way of your needs. Give yourself space to slow down if it’s what you need to reclaim some peace. If you need ways to say the hard thing, consider these: “I am unable to attend your event this year but thank you for the invitation and please remember me next year.”* “I love you but I’m spending the month in bed. Send pie.”* Enlist the help of a buddy. Having a designated safe person with you during holiday gatherings, one who will take you home when it’s time, is a great way to reinforce your boundaries. Hold space for your deceased loved one. Continuing bonds is a bereavement theory that suggests maintaining a lasting connection with a loved one is a common part of grieving. Consider keeping their stocking up and having everyone fill it with special memories. Give away some of their belongings as gifts to those who loved them. Make ornaments that celebrate the things they loved. Keep their chair reserved at the table. Toast to the ones who are not here.• Mourning Space www.mourningspace.com www.tinylegacies.com Find them on Instagram and Facebook (530) 206-0504
Kimberly N. Bonéy, proud wife and mom, is a freelance writer, designer, up-cycler and owner of Herstory Vintage. When she’s not working, she is joyfully wielding jewelry-making tools and paintbrushes in her studio. Antique shops, vintage boutiques, craft stores and bead shops are her happy place.
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“WITH VETERANS DAY AND MEMORIAL DAY RECEIVING MUCH ATTENTION EACH YEAR, THESE MEMORIALS PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TELL A STORY THAT EXTENDS BEYOND THOSE OBSERVANCES.”
ith Veterans Day and Memorial Day receiving much attention each year, these memorials provide an opportunity to tell a story that extends beyond those observances,” says Barbara Parker-Griess of the Cottonwood Garden Club. “Many local residents pass them every day without realizing the rich history behind them.” The memorials Parker-Griess references are part of the Blue Star Memorial Highway Program established in 1946 by the National Garden Clubs, Inc. The movement was inspired by the New Jersey Council of Garden Clubs’ planting of 8,000 dogwood trees along a local highway as a living memorial to WWII veterans. Judith Paul, director of the Cascade District Garden Clubs—which encompasses six community garden clubs and an arrangers guild within Shasta, Tehama and Trinity counties—says the Blue Star Memorial Program serves as a tribute to past, current and future members of the U.S. Armed Forces while providing the garden clubs with an opportunity to use their horticulture knowledge and landscape skills to beautify the memorials. The program’s first highway marker was installed in
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Texas in 1947, the same year California adopted the program. Since its inception, more than 3,900 markers have been placed throughout the country, nine of those within the Cascade District. The most recent dedications include the Redding Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic on Knighton Road in Redding and the Tehama District Fairgrounds in Anderson in July 2025 and March 2022, respectively. Paul says clubs within the district are looking toward more installations in the future. Individual clubs and the district itself research prospective locations and first meet with municipalities for local approval before proceeding through the state and national Garden Clubs approval process. Each club raises funds through events like plant and bake sales, donations or grants for the marker purchase, which averages $2,500 for highway and memorial markers and $800 for byway markers, plus shipping costs. Once approved, the markers are ordered, placed and landscaped. Dignitaries and guests are invited to a dedication ceremony and club members volunteer to maintain them. “The whole process usually takes about a year,” says Paul. Each Blue Star Memorial features its distinctive star, an homage to the service flags commonly displayed in homes and businesses during World War I to indicate veteran status: Blue Stars symbolize hope and pride for active service members; Gold Stars represent honor, hope and healing to families of service members killed or missing in action. The Gold Stars are a more recent addition, having been added to the program in 2015. All markers include the inscription: “A tribute to the Armed Forces who have defended the United States of America.” The memorial markers are of three types, each with specific guidelines regarding who ▶ continued on page 78
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“They represent a year-round expression of gratitude and are maintained by local volunteers who are dedicated to preserving both our history and our community’s connection to those who served.”
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can be honored, where the marker can be placed and how it can be cared for if it becomes damaged. Blue Star Memorial Highway Markers honor only Blue Star families and are permitted at approved rest areas off of highways. They are approximately 7½ feet tall and weigh several hundred pounds. These markers can be refurbished. Blue Star Memorial Markers honor either Blue or Gold Star families and are permitted on the grounds of national cemeteries, Veterans Administration medical centers or other approved civic locations. They are the same size and weight as the Blue Star Memorial highway markers. These markers can also be refurbished. By-Way Memorial Markers honor either Blue or Gold Star families and are permitted at parks, historical sites and other civic locations. The marker is a plaque 12 inches high by 20 inches wide. These are the only markers of the three that cannot be refurbished and must be replaced. “Over the years there have been small changes in design, wording and the materials used,” says Paul, “but basically, they are quite similar.” Parker-Griess sums it up best when she says, “They represent a yearround expression of gratitude and are maintained by local volunteers who are dedicated to preserving both our history and our community’s connection to those who served.” • cascade-district.org
Claudia Mosby is a Redding-based freelance writer. She is the founder and director of The Expressive Spirit, a wellness company in Mt. Shasta offering spiritual direction, arts and nature-based activities and consultancy for grief and loss. Veterans Cemetery, Igo
Cascade District Blue Star Memorial Marker Locations • Redding VA Outpatient Clinic, 3455 Knighton Road, Redding – July 2025, Cascade District • Tehama District Fairgrounds, Red Bluff – March 2022, Red Bluff Garden Club • Veterans Memorial Garden, Shasta Lake City – November 2009, Shasta Lake Garden Project • Northern California Veterans Cemetery, Igo – October 2009, Redding Garden Club • Veterans Memorial Hall, Anderson – 1968-69, Anderson Valley Garden Club • Cottonwood, Front Street Park, along Highway 99 – 1968-69, Cottonwood Garden Club • Herbert Miles rest area, Interstate 5 north of Red Bluff – 1964-1965, Cascade District • Herbert Miles rest area, Interstate 5 south of Red Bluff – 1964-1965, Cascade District • O’Brien rest area on Interstate 5 north – 1949, Cascade District
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T H E H OL I DAY E DI T WHAT MATTERS THIS SEASON This season is a reminder to focus on the people we love, the life we’ve built and the future we’re creating. Your finances are part of that story. You don’t need to have everything figured out. Sometimes the best place to start is simply a conversation. It’s smart. It’s free. It could change your life. Let’s talk.
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HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR Holiday spirit shines at the 29th annual Holiday Craft Fair at College of the Siskiyous. Friday, December 4, 5–8 pm and Saturday, December 5, 9 am–3 pm. About 60 local and regional vendors offer handmade gifts, jewelry, woodcrafts, metal art, hand sewn or knitted items and more. Admission is $3. Santa visits Saturday, December 6, 11 am–1 pm.
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amed one of the “best vintage flea markets in the United States” by one magazine and one of the “top 10 romantic flea markets in the United States” by another, the Roses & Rust Marketplace held twice a year in Anderson brings together designers, artisans, curators and more. Its next Tinsel & Treasures Market will take place November 6 and 7 at the Shasta District Fair and Event Center, where people are practically guaranteed to find something old, handmade, and/or something you didn’t know you needed. Roses & Rust Marketplace was founded back in 2010. “The previous organizer had a shop in Anderson and wanted to put together a curated vintage market, so she started Roses & Rust in a barn in Palo Cedro,” Roses & Rust Owner Kimberly Snowden says. Snowden was a vendor at the very first Roses & Rust and really enjoyed it. She makes
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assemblage jewelry, using deconstructed pieces of materials to turn into wearable art. She eventually started selling vintage items and antiques, too. “It was something new in Redding and it had a really good vibe; it was fun to work on,” she recalls. Snowden was invited to be a part of the planning team after that and took over Roses & Rust in 2021. Snowden enjoys interacting with fellow vintage sellers and collectors, adding, “It’s an interesting group of people here. There are a lot of locals and people come from out of town.” Roses & Rust draws the artistic, creative types who live kind of a vagabond lifestyle, going from show to show.
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To get the most out of the Roses & Rust Marketplace, Snowden recommends buying a ticket online and going when the event starts on Friday. “It’s a two-day event so it’s best to purchase a ticket online and come in at 3pm when the doors open. The vendors have just set up, and you get first dibs on everything before the Saturday rush,” she says. Since the market encompasses two buildings (and is both indoors and outdoors) at the fairgrounds, Snowden suggests going to the second building first. Most people go to the first building, and some don’t even know that the other building has more stuff in it or are too tired to visit that one. “Take your time; talk to the vendors in the second building, get a snack, and make your way to the first building.”
“Many people here do it on a fulltime basis. They’re out scouting for items, negotiating a price, trying to figure out the resell value, storing the items, packing them and traveling,” she explains. After COVID, though, the whole flea market environment changed as costs went up and there was a supply chain issue. Therefore, Roses & Rust pivoted to bring in more artisans, boutiques, crafters and cottage bakers while also creating space for those who make more unusual things. Roses & Rust also has food trucks, beer and wine, and packaged items so people can stay well-hydrated and fed while shopping. “There’s something for everyone,” Snowden says. While the Tinsel & Treasures market draws a bigger crowd as people gear up for the holiday season with more merchandise and gift items, the spring market brings in more home décor-oriented vendors. When asked about some of the more unique items she’s seen at the market, Snowden recalls a vendor from Oregon (who has since retired) who made bars out of salvaged front end car parts. “But all vendors are unique in their own way,” she adds. Items “you didn’t know you needed” available at the market can include small collectibles—textiles, linens, old Pyrex—as well as vintage restaurant ware. “Someone sees that and falls in love with it, and they end up buying the entire collection,” she says. “I overhear that all the time, the ‘Ooh, I gotta take that home. I love this and want to start a collection.’ Plus, a lot of vintage vendors will tell you the story behind it,” Snowden says. China, books and vintage holiday ornaments are other one-of-a-kind things that make great gifts.
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Roses & Rust organizers also offer a porter service for people who see something they like but don’t want to drag it around. “You can store your finds at the booth, and we’ll take it out to the car for you,” she adds. And finally, “Come with shopping bags and good shoes.” • Roses & Rust Marketplace’s Tinsel & Treasures Market November 6-7 www.rosesandrustmarketplace.com
Kayla Anderson is a freelance writer and coauthor of Moon Travel Guides’ Best of California State Parks and Northern California Road Trips. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from CSU, Chico and loves to read, write, and explore the North State and beyond.
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THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS HOT POCKETS
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Servings: 6 pockets Prep Time: 5 minutes (including time for dough to rest at room temperature) Cook Time: 15-18 minutes Total Time: 1 hour
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y the time the last plate is cleared on Thanksgiving night, most of us are already scheming about what comes next. First, the food coma. The next day? Leftovers! That turkey, that stuffing and those mashed potatoes sitting in the fridge, tangled in foil and Tupperware: it’s raw material for one of the best meals of the year. The classic move is the sandwich, and there’s no shame in it. But sandwiches go soggy and spill their gravy on the counter. This year, fold everything into dough instead. Layer stuffing on the bottom to catch the juices, then turkey, mashed potatoes, a spoonful of cranberry sauce and a slick of gravy, all sealed inside a crust that turns deep gold in the oven. What comes out
INGREDIENTS • All-purpose flour, for surfaces • 1 lb. homemade or store-bought pizza dough, divided into 6 even balls (see tip below) • Leftover stuffing • Leftover mashed potatoes • Leftover roast turkey, shredded • Leftover cranberry sauce • Leftover gravy • 1 T heavy cream or milk • Shredded Parmesan or 3 slices of swiss or cheddar, each cut into two rectangles
looks like something you’d order off a menu, not scrape off a foil pan. Pizza dough does the job, but so does puff pastry, so there’s no excuse to skip this, even if the only dough in your kitchen came from the freezer aisle. The hot pockets travel well, reheat in minutes, and taste like the holiday distilled into something you can eat with one hand while watching football. • Al 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.
DIRECTIONS Step 1: Lightly flour a work surface and lay the six dough balls on it. Dust with flour and cover with a clean kitchen towel. Allow the dough balls to rest at room temperature until easy to stretch, about 45 minutes. Step 2: Adjust an oven rack to the center position and heat oven to 425 degrees. Working one at a time and leaving the rest covered as you work, roll and stretch each ball of dough into a circle about seven inches in diameter. Step 3: Layer a total of about 1 cup of leftovers in a log about 2 inches wide and 5 inches long down the center: Start with a layer of stuffing, which absorbs the juices as the pockets bake, then add mashed potatoes, turkey, cranberry sauce and gravy. Do not overstuff. (It’s an easy temptation.) Step 4: Fold the top and bottom of the dough over the ends of the log. Lift the right side over the log, stretching it slightly to fully cover the filling while keeping the top and bottom tucked in. Fold the left side over and repeat. Repeat with the remaining dough circles and filling.
TIP:You can also use canned pizza dough or thawed frozen puff pastry for this. Divide and roll the dough into six 7-by-6-inch rectangles. When forming the pockets, fold one side over the other and crimp the edges with a fork to seal. Bake as directed.
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Step 5: Transfer the pockets, seam side down, to a parchment-lined baking sheet. Combine the heavy cream or milk with 2 tablespoons of leftover gravy, then brush the pockets with the mixture. With a sharp knife, cut three slits on the tops of the pockets for ventilation. Sprinkle the pockets with a dusting of shredded parmesan or place a half slice of swiss or cheddar on top of each one. Step 6: Bake until deep golden brown, 15 to 18 minutes. Serve immediately with extra gravy and cranberry sauce for spooning or dipping. You can also refrigerate the cooked pockets and reheat them in a toaster oven for about 7 minutes at 425 degrees.
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ASPENS FROM ABOVE Frank Kratofil enjoys spending time with his family, friends and patients and he enjoys time in the outdoors. As a young man, Frank was legally blind. Two successful corneal transplants encouraged him to photograph the magic in nature... beautiful colors and the delicate balance of nature, animals and humans. Find him on Instagram @frankkratofil
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Brie Thankful CRANBERRY BRIE BITES
W H AT ’ S C O O K I N ’ | E N J OY S TA F F
These easy Cranberry Brie Bites are the perfect blend of creamy, sweet and crunchy. Flaky crescent pastry cups are filled with rich brie, topped with whole-berry cranberry sauce, chopped pecans and a touch of fresh rosemary. They’re a beautiful addition to your holiday table and always a hit with guests!
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1 package refrigerated crescent roll dough
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a 24-cup mini muffin pan.
crescent dough and press the seams together. Cut into 24 small 2 Unroll squares.
8 oz. brie cheese ¾ cup whole-berry cranberry sauce
3 Gently press one square of dough into each muffin cup.
⅓ cup chopped pecans
brie into 24 small pieces. You can leave the rind on or remove it, 4 Cut whichever you prefer.
Fresh rosemary, finely chopped, for garnish
a piece of brie in each cup and top with about 1 tsp. cranberry 5 Place sauce.
Optional: honey for drizzling
6 Sprinkle with chopped pecans. for 10–13 minutes, until the pastry is golden and the cheese is 7 Bake melted.
8 Let cool in the pan for a few minutes. Sprinkle with a little fresh rosemary and, if desired, drizzle lightly with honey.
9 Serve warm.
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These can be assembled a few hours ahead, covered and refrigerated, then popped into the oven shortly before guests arrive.
PREP TIME: 15 MINUTES
BAKE TIME: 10-13 MINUTES
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anderson November 1 • Pumpkin Fest, Historic Hawes Farm, 6465 Deschutes Road, 9am-4pm, www. historichawesfarm.com/pumpkin-patch November 3 • Retired Employees’ Association of California, Vittles Restaurant, 2385 North St., 11am-1pm, www.rpea.com November 6-7 • Tinsel & Treasures Market, Shasta District Fairgrounds, 1890 Briggs St., 4-8pm Friday, 9am-4pm Saturday, www.rosesandrustmarketplace.com November 7 • Community for Anderson Explodes Steak and Shrimp Dinner, Shasta District Fairgrounds, 1890 Briggs St., 5:30pm, www.facebook.com/ people/Community-for-AndersonExplodes/100064705235181 November 14-15 • The SDF Market, Shasta District Fairgrounds, 1890 Briggs St., 9am-3pm, www.shastadistrictfairandeventcenter.com
November 12 • Chico Ice Rink Grand Opening, Downtown Chico Ice Rink, 132 W 4th St., 3-9pm, www.chicorec.gov November 13-30 • Chico Ice Rink, Downtown Chico Ice Rink, 132 W 4th St., www.chicorec.gov November 20 • The Gobble Games, Chico Ice Rink, 132 W 4th St., 6-9pm, www.chicorec.gov November 22 • Christmas Preview, Downtown Chico Shops, 4-8pm, www.downtownchico.com November 28 • Small Business Saturday, Downtown Chico Shops, 10am-5pm, www.downtownchico.com
November 20 • STEM Career Day 2026: Energize Your Future, Shasta District Fair & Event Center, 1890 Briggs St., 9am-2:10pm, www. stemcareerday.com/2026-stem-career-day
chico November 1 • Day of the Dead Festival, Silver Dollar Fair Grounds, 2357 Fair St., 11am-5pm, www. facebook.com/events/876973794924537 • Dia de los Muertos, Chico Cemetery Association, 881 Mangrove Ave., 1-6pm, www.facebook.com/ events/2280439079443553 November 4, 11, 18, 25 • Chico Wednesday Farmers Market, North Valley Plaza Mall parking lot, Pillsbury Road adjacent to Trader Joe’s, 7:30amnoon, www.chicofarmersmarket.com November 7 • Gratitude Walk 2026, Bidwell Park, 9amnoon, www.thegratitudewalk.com November 7, 14, 21, 28 • Chico Saturday Farmers Market, Downtown Chico municipal parking lot, 2nd and Wall streets, 7:30am-1pm, www.chicofarmersmarket.com
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corning November 11 • Veterans Day Parade, Beginning in front of City Hall at 3rd and ending at the Veterans Hall at Houghton Avenue, 11am, www.corningchamber.org
dunsmuir November 14 • Holiday Craft Fair, Downtown Dunsmuir, www.dunsmuir.com/events
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• Dunsmuir Second Saturdays, Downtown Dunsmuir, 11am-9pm, www.dunsmuirsecondsaturday.com
November 27 • Mt. Shasta Winter Magic, East Castle St. and North Mt. Shasta Blvd., 1-9pm, www.mtshastachamber.com
etna
oroville
November 7 • Etna Veterans Parade, Downtown Etna Main St., 11am-1pm, www.discoversiskiyou.com November 6-14 • The 7th Annual Jewelry Show, Marble Rim Gallery, 448 Main St., www.marblerimgallery.org
fort jones November 6, 13, 20, 27 • Live Music, Five Marys Burgerhouse, 11825 Main St., 6-8pm, www.fivemarysburgerhouse.com
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November 11 • Veterans Day Parade, Starts at 5th and Montgomery Street, 11am, www.visitoroville.com/veteran-s-dayparade November 21 • Downtown Oroville Christmas Preview, Downtown Oroville, 4-8pm, www.butte365.com November 28 • Downtown Oroville Shop Small Saturday, Downtown Oroville, 11am-5pm, www.butte365.com
paradise
November 7-8 • Holiday Jubilee Craft Show, Butte County Fairgrounds, 199 East Hazel St., 10am-5pm Saturday, 10am-3pm Sunday, www.buttecountyfair.org/holiday-jubileeand-craft-fair
lewiston November 28 • Lewiston Bridge Lighting & Fireworks, Lewiston Bridge and Lewistown Shops, 3-7pm, 5:30pm Fireworks, www. lewistonsparkies.com/bridge-lighting
mccloud November 8 • Fall Fungus Fair, McCloud Dance Hall, 104 Pine St., 10am-6pm, www.mcclouddancehall.com/eventdetails/fall-fungus-fair November 13 • Little Feet, Big Discoveries - Family Nature Walks with MSBEC and First 5 Siskiyou, Lakin Dam Picnic Area, 10am-noon, www.mountshastaecology.org
mount shasta November 12 • Shasta Stories, Mount Shasta Sisson Museum, 1 North Old Stage Road, 7-9pm, www.mtshastachamber.com November 14-30 • Mount Shasta Ice Rink, 800 Rockfellow Drive, www.msrec.org/ice-rink November 17 • Humane Society Giving Tuesday, Siskiyou Humane Society Thrift Store, 110 W Lake St., Noon, www.northstategives.org/ organization/S-H-S/
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November 7 • 6th Annual Phoenix 5K, Paradise Stronger, 6848 Skyway Suite P, 9am, www.paradisestronger.org/phoenix5k-10k • Bags and Beans, Terry Ashe Recreation Center, 6626 Skyway, 9am-6pm, www.paradiseprpd.com • Elks Hoop Shoot ‘26, Paradise Junior High School Gym, 5657 Recreation Drive, 9:30am, www.paradiseprpd.com • Fired and Fine Arts Show Reception, Paradise Art Center, 5564 Almond St., 5-7pm, www.paradise-art-center.com November 7-28 • Fired and Fine Arts Show, Paradise Art Center, 5564 Almond St., www.paradise-art-center.com November 13 • Custom Craft Decoupage, Paradise Community Center, 877 Nunneley Road, www.paradiseprpd.com November 13-14 • Homespun Holidays Craft Show, Paradise Masonic Lodge, 5934 Clark Road, 10am-4pm, www.paradisechamber.com November 14 • Winter Pinewood Derby ‘26, Terry Ashe Recreation Center, 6626 Skyway, 2-4pm, www.paradiseprpd.com
red bluff November 7 • Santa’s Eves Christmas Craft and Vendor Fair, Red Bluff Community Center, 1500 S Jackson St., 11am-4pm, www.facebook. com/events/1528313945713129 • Art Walk, Downtown Red Bluff, 2-8pm, www.tehamaarts.org
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November 7, 14, 21, 28 • Saturday Farmers Market, River Park, 555 Washington St., 9am-noon, www.redbluffchamber.com November 14 • Tehama Bulls Annual Spaghetti Dinner Fundraiser, Veterans Hall, 735 Oak St., 5pm, www.facebook.com/profile. php?id=100057180051172 November 26 • 11th Annual Turkey Trot, Walnut St., 7am-noon, www.facebook.com/ RedBluff2030 November 27-28 • California Cowboys Professional Rodeo Association Finals Rodeo, Tehama District Fairgrounds, 650 Antelope Blvd., 7pm Friday, 5pm Saturday, www.ccpra.com November 28 • Gifts of Joy, Tehama Arts Gallery, 328 Oak St., 4-8pm, www.tehamaarts.org • Red Bluff Christmas Parade, Downtown Red Bluff, 5:30pm, www.redbluffchamber.com
redding November 1 • Acorns: A Native American Staple Talk and Plant Walk, Horsetown Clear Creek Preserve, Cypress Ave., 1-3pm, www.horsetownclearcreekpreserve.org November 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 • Brunch at the Market, Redding Public Market, 1551 Market St., 10am-1pm, www.visitredding.com • Bingo, The Tropics, 2555 South Market St., 7-9pm, www.visitredding.com • Trivia, From the Hearth Kitchen and Pie Shop, 1427 Market St., 2pm, www.visitredding.com • Trivia Night, Branch House Riverfront Bistro, 844 Sundial Bridge Drive, 5-7pm, www.branchhouseredding.com November 2-27 • Morning Sound Meditations with Hum, 668 Azalea Ave., 6-6:45am Monday, Wednesday, Friday, www.visitredding.com November 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 • Music Mondays, Mosaic Restaurant, 826 Sundial Bridge Drive, 6-8pm, www. mosaicredding.com/events • Trivia Night, Pourboys Tapyard, 2040 Waldon St., 6pm, www.visitredding.com • Trivia Night, Redding Public Market, 1551 Market St., 6pm, www.visitredding.com November 3, 10, 17, 24 • Trivia Night, Post Office Saloon, 1636 Market St., 6pm, www.visitredding.com
NOVEMBER 2026
51st Annual
Orland Craft Fair November 28 & 29 • Saturday 10-5 • Sunday 11 - 4 • 3 Buildings of craft booths • Free Admission • Parking $3 • Glenn County Fairgrounds
Thanksgiving Interfaith Service presented by Shasta Interfaith Co-sponsored by
Reciproka Anti-Racism Task Force Shasta County Citizens Advocating Respect
All are welcome! ~Interfaith Choir ~ Giving Thanks ~ Readings * Christian * Baha'i * Sikh * Islam * Buddhism
Sunday, November 22, 2026 6:00 - 7:30 PM Free family-friendly event
St. Joseph Catholic Church 2040 Walnut Ave., Redding Refreshments by Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Sponsored by the Orland Historical Society
Contact (530) 243-8862 or ShastaInterfaith@gmail.com Donations Benefit a Local Nonprofit
Experience the magic of the holiday season with this timeless ballet, featuring live music by the Shasta Symphony Orchestra!
Aaron’s Home presents
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Artistic Director:
Diana Christensen
December 10 & 11, 2026 at 7:00pm
December 12, 2026 Featuring
at 2:00pm & 7:00pm
Shasta College Performing Arts Theater 11555 Old Oregon Trail
For tickets visit:
www.TheReddingArtsProject.com The Redding Arts Project School of Theatre and Dance – proud sponsor of The Nutcracker in the North State for over 20 years
• Trivia Night, Fratelli’s Pizza, 1774 California St., 6pm, www.visitredding.com November 4, 11, 18, 25 • Trivia Night, Woody’s Brewing Co., 1257 Oregon St., 6pm, www.visitredding.com November 5, 12, 19 • Thirsty Thursday & Country Line Dancing, Fall River Brewery, 4001 Eastside Road, 4pm, www.visitredding.com • Music Trivia, Anthony’s Mediterranean Bar & Grill, 1701 California St., 6pm, www.visitredding.com • Trivia Night, The Tropics, 2555 South Market St., 7-9pm, www.visitredding.com November 6 • First Fridays in Downtown Redding, Downtown Redding stores, 5pm, www.visitredding.com • AAUW Redding Starry Night of Art and Wine, North Valley Art League, 48 Quartz Hill Road, 4-7:30pm, www.nval.org • Paint and Sip Night, The Open Canvas Studio, 1616 Market St., 6:30pm, www.visitredding.com • Jazz at Shasta College Presents “A Fall Concert,” Shasta College Theatre, 11555 Old Oregon Trail, 7:30pm, www.visitredding.com November 7 • Harvest Market, First Presbyterian Church, 2315 Placer St., 9am-3pm, www.firstpresbyterianreddingca.org • Annual Holiday Boutique, First Christian Church, 3590 Placer St., 9am-3pm, www.fccredding.org • American’s Poet: Carl Sandburg, Horsetown Clear Creek Preserve, Cypress Ave., 10-11:30am, www.horsetownclearcreekpreserve.org November 7, 14, 21, 28 • Redding Farmers Market, behind City Hall, 777 Cypress Ave., 7:30am-noon, www.reddingfarmersmarkets.com • Sipp’n Saturdays, Branch House Riverfront Bistro, 844 Sundial Bridge Drive, 5-7pm, www.branchhouseredding.com November 7-29 • Yappy Hour, Branch House Riverfront Bistro, 844 Sundial Bridge Drive, 11am1pm, Saturdays and Sundays, www.branchhouseredding.com November 11 • Beginning Journal Making, Shop Around the Corner Books, 1244 California St., 7-9pm, www.visitredding.com November 13 • Brushes and Bubbly, Shasta Land Trust, 5170 Bechelli Lane, 6-8pm, www.visitredding.com
November 22 • Community Ukulele Club Meetup, Shasta Lake Community United Methodist Church, 1509 Hardenbrook Ave., 2-3:30pm, www.cityofshastalake.gov
• Performing Arts Society of Redding Presents: “The Kitchen Sing,” Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2850 Foothill Blvd., 7:30pm, www.enjoylocalevents.com November 14 • California Chocolate Expo, Red Lion Hotel, 1830 Hilltop Drive, 11am-6:30pm, www.californiachocolateexpo.com • Redding Disney Adults Meetup, Shasta Historical Society, 1449 Market St., 6pm, www.visitredding.com November 15 • Geography and More, Horsetown Clear Creek Preserve, Cypress Ave., 10am-noon, www.horsetownclearcreekpreserve.org November 20 • Redding Area Gaming Enthusiasts Meetup, Fratelli’s Pizza, 1774 California St., 5:30pm, www.visitredding.com November 21 • Cornucopia Floral Design, Plantable, 2018 California St., 9-11am, www.visitredding.com • 2nd Annual Tinsel and Twine Holiday Market, Old Pine Street School Building, 1135 Pine St., 10am-4pm, www.facebook. com/events/1069802805634729 November 23-24 • Sugar Plum Tea, 935 Locust St., 9:30am and 1pm, www.simpletix.com/e/sugarplum-tea-tickets-292285 November 24 • Community Game Night, Redding Public Market, 1551 Market St., 5:30pm, www.visitredding.com November 26 • Turtley Trot and Kids Diestlehorst Dash, 2290 Benton Drive, 8-10am, www. runsignup.com/Race/CA/Redding/ thanksgivingrun November 28 • Redding Rancheria Christmas Arts, Crafts & Gifts Fair, Win-River Event Center, 2100 Redding Rancheria Road, 10am-5pm, www.visitredding.com
weed November 28 • Olde Fashioned Christmas, City Hall Plaza, Heritage Plaza on Main St., 5-7pm, www.weedchamber.com
weaverville November 7 • First Saturdays and Art Walk, Downtown Weaverville, 5-8pm, www.trinitycountyarts.org November 14 • 2026 Festival of Light Arts and Fine Crafts Fundraiser, Veteran’s Memorial Hall, 100 Memorial Drive, 10am-4pm, www.facebook.com/TrinityCountyArts
anderson library
www.shastalibraries.org November 5, 12, 19 • Knitting Club, 10am-noon November 7 • Disguise a Turkey, 3-4:30pm November 24 • Bookmates Book Club, 2-4:30pm
axiom repertory theatre www.axreptheatre.com
November 6-21 • “The Effect,” 7:30pm ThursdaySaturday, 2pm Sunday November 27-28 • “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” 1pm, 3pm, 5pm, and 7pm Friday-Saturday
burney library
www.shastalibraries.org
shasta lake November 2-25 • Yoga, Larry J Farr Community Center, 4499 Main St., 5:30-6:30pm Monday and Wednesday, www.cityofshastalake.gov November 7 • Veterans Parade, Shasta Dam Blvd., 10am, www.shastalakehistorical.org November 21 • Community Holiday Bazaar, Larry J Farr Community Center, 4499 Main St., 8am2pm, www.cityofshastalake.gov
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November 4 • Storytime, 11am-noon November 5 • Tiny Tunes, 11am-noon November 6 • Yarns at the Library, 2-3pm November 7 • Disguise a Turkey, 3-4:30pm November 19 • Baby Bonding, 11am-noon
chico theater company www.chicotheater.com
November 27-29 • “10 Ways to Survive the Holidays,” 7:30pm Friday-Saturday, 2pm Sunday
cascade theater
www.cascadetheatre.org November 6 • International Fly Fishing Film Festival, 7pm November 11 • NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet, 7pm November 12 • Swan Lake: Symphony of Lights, 7pm November 14 • “Carmen Reimagined,” Presented by North State Symphony, 7:30pm November 27 • Christmas at the Cascade: The Grinch (2018), 2pm • Christmas at the Cascade: It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), 6:30pm November 28 • Christmas at the Cascade: Elf (2003), 2pm • Christmas at the Cascade: White Christmas (1954), 6:30pm
November 2, 9, 16, 17, 23, 30 • Storytime, 10:15-11am November 3, 10, 17, 24 • Teen Action Board, 5-6:30pm November 4, 18 • Teen Art Club, 4-5pm November 4, 11, 18, 25 • Sensory Storytime, 10:15-11am November 5, 12, 19 • Stay & Play, 10:30-11:30am November 6, 13, 20 • Tunes & Tales, 3-3:30pm November 7 • BIG Book Sale (Friends of the Libraries), 10am-3pm November 7, 14, 21, 28 • Art Studio Storytime, 10:15-11am November 8 • Disguise a Turkey, 3-4:30pm November 21 • Prescription Pets, 12-2pm November 28 • Teen Magic the Gathering 3:30-5:30pm
redding performing arts center
chico performances
www.chicoperformances.com
www.reddingpac.com
November 19 • Bored Teachers: Is It Friday Yet?! Comedy Tour, 7:30pm
feather falls casino
www.featherfallscasino.com November 6, 7, 13, 20, 27, 28 • Free Concert Series, 10pm-midnight November 14 • Fiesta Night, 10pm November 21 • Fuel, 8pm
gold country casino resort www.goldcountrycasino.com
November 6 • Tannahill Weavers, 7pm November 12-21 • Schoolhouse Rock Live Kids, 5pm and 6:30pm Thursday-Friday, 4pm and 6pm Saturday November 20 • Blue Moon Marquee, 8:30pm November 27-29 • James and the Giant Peach Jr., 5pm and 7pm Friday, 3pm and 6:30pm Saturday, 3pm Sunday
riverfront playhouse
November 7 • Sister Hazel, 7pm
www.riverfrontplayhouse.org November 1 • “The Haunting of Hill House,” 7:30pm Friday-Saturday, 2pm Saturday October 17, 2pm Sunday November 7 • Holiday Craft Fair, 10am-3pm November 15 • North State Chronicles, 2-4pm
oroville state theater
www.orovillestatetheater.com November 7 • Stand Up Comedy - Jesus Sepulveda & Andrea Abbate, 8pm November 14 • SOAAHS Fundraiser, 5pm November 15 • Practical Magic, noon-1:40pm • Junk Journal Club - Practical Magic, noon-4pm
rolling hills casino and resort www.rollinghillscasino.com
November 7 • 2026 Paskenta Big Time, Equestrian Center, 10am-6:30pm, www.facebook. com/paskentabandofnomlakiindians November 26 • Thanksgiving Day Buffet, 11am-3pm
redding library
www.shastalibraries.org November 1-3 • Dia de los Muertos Community Celebration, All Day
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shasta college
www.shastacollege.edu/events November 6 • Jazz at Shasta College Presents “A Fall Concert,” 7:30pm November 18 • The Shasta College Choral Program Presents “Fall Concert,” 7:30pm November 20-21 • The Shasta College Symphonic Band Presents “Fall Concert,” 7:30pm Friday, 3pm Saturday November 22 • The Shasta College Concert Orchestra Presents “Fall Concert,” 3pm
schreder planetarium
www.shastacoe.org/programsservices/planetarium November 6 • Kids Night: Solar System (Earth, Moon, and Sun; Beyond the Sun), 6pm November 20 • Family Night: ET Night (Cosmic Safari; Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), 7pm
the dip
www.thedipredding.com
November 6 • Landroid and Not Your Babe, 8pm November 13 • The Coffis Brothers presents: Coffis Plays Petty, 8pm
trinity alps performing arts center www.tapaconline.org
November 5 • The Tannahill Weavers, 7pm November 6 • Karaoke Night, 7-10pm November 11 • Big Joe Kennedy, 7pm November 15 • Hildaland, 3pm November 21 • TAPACAPALOOZA II, 3-10pm
turtle bay exploration park www.turtlebay.org
November 1-30 • Animal Power, Museum Hours • America at the Crossroads: The Guitar and a Changing Nation, Museum Hours • Emotions at Play: with Pixar’s Inside Out, Museum Hours
NOVEMBER 2026
• How to Build a Guitar, Museum Hours • Moments that Made Us, Museum Hours • Water Wonders, 10:30am, Wednesday-Thursday November 5, 12, 19 • Little Explorers, 10-11am November 6, 13, 20, 27 • Animal Attitudes: How Animals Express Themselves, 2-2:15pm November 7 • Charlie Rabbit and Friends, Turtle Bay Garden Nursery, 10-11am • Community Day in the Gardens, Turtle Bay Garden Nursery, 9am-1pm November 7, 14, 21, 28 • Predator vs. Prey Indoor Animal Show, 2-2:30pm November 8, 15, 22, 29 • Animals Everywhere, 2-2:15pm November 13 • Plant Workshop: Magical Miniature Terrarium Gardens, Turtle Bay Garden Nursery, 5-7pm November 14 • Plant Talk: Small Garden Design, Turtle Bay Garden Nursery, 10am-noon • Family 2nd Saturday, 10am-1pm November 21 • Plant Talk: Garden Bones & Garden Structures, Turtle Bay Garden Nursery, 10am-noon • Science Saturday, 10am-1pm November 20-29 • Redding Garden of Lights, 5pm November 28 • Art Lab, 10am-1pm • Guided Garden Walk, 10-11am
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November 6-8 • NorCal Tattoo Expo, 3-11pm Friday, noon-11pm Saturday, noon-8pm Sunday, www.norcaltattooexpo.com November 6-28 • Overtime Live DVJ, Friday and Saturday, 9:30pm November 10 • United States Marine Corps 251st Birthday Bash, 5-10pm, www.visitredding.com
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WHAT IS GIVE REDDING AND HOW DID IT GET STARTED? Give Redding is an annual holiday drive that brings local businesses and our community together to provide nonperishable food, turkeys, hams, hygiene products and unwrapped new toys to local organizations serving people in need. It started in 2012 with our team at O2 Employment Services. We wanted to find a way to use the relationships we had built through our business to do something meaningful for the community that had supported us. What began as a relatively simple holiday drive has grown into something much bigger than we ever imagined. I’m incredibly proud that it has continued to grow year after year while remaining a truly local effort.
COMMUNITY? I think people would be surprised by how many of the needs are very basic—food, diapers, hygiene products, warm clothing, toys for a child at Christmas. Things many of us take for granted can mean everything to a family going through a difficult time. I also don’t think people always realize how much our nonprofits are being asked to do with limited resources.
Give Redding • November 13 • O2 Employment Services 915 Mistletoe Lane, Redding • Visit o2es.com for more information
HOW DOES THE EVENT WORK? Local businesses sign up on O2’s website (O2ES.com) to hold their own food, toy and donation drives with their employees, customers and friends. Then we bring everything together on one big collection day on November 13. That is what makes Give Redding so special. It isn’t O2 doing a fundraiser by ourselves—it’s hundreds of people and businesses all doing a little bit and then combining it into something pretty incredible. WHAT KINDS OF LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS HAVE BENEFITED FROM GIVE REDDING OVER THE YEARS? This year, donations benefit three wonderful local organizations: One Safe Place, Raising Shasta and the Good News Rescue Mission. Each serves a different need in our community, from helping victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, to supporting children and families, to providing food, shelter and recovery services for people in need. WHAT DO YOU THINK PEOPLE WOULD BE SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT THE NEEDS OF NONPROFITS IN OUR
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HOW DOES GIVE REDDING HELP SMALLER NONPROFITS THAT MAY NOT HAVE LARGE FUNDRAISING OR MARKETING BUDGETS? One of the greatest things we can give a nonprofit is a bigger voice. Give Redding allows us to use the collective reach of O2 and hundreds of local businesses to tell our community exactly what these organizations need. Instead of each nonprofit trying to reach people on its own, we all amplify the message together. HOW CAN LOCAL BUSINESSES GET INVOLVED OR SUPPORT GIVE REDDING? Sign up! Businesses can host a drive, collect items, make a financial contribution, involve their employees and customers, or simply help us spread the word. You don’t have to be a large company or make a huge donation. Give Redding works because lots of people do what they can. It all adds up. WHERE CAN PEOPLE LEARN MORE ABOUT GIVE REDDING AND THIS YEAR’S EVENT? Visit the Give Redding page on the O2 Employment Services website. You’ll find information about this year’s drive, our nonprofit partners, ways to donate, shopping ideas and information for businesses that want to participate. My favorite message every year is simple: Give Food. Give Toys. Give Hope. This community has proven over and over again just how much we can accomplish when we give together. •
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