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An accidental journey on the memory band

An accidental journey on the memory band

And to believe I thought my bee column was boring last week …

It seems I don’t know how to evaluate the reader’s interest. So, to all these kind people who sent me about bees, thank you. A dear reader has even given up a bee’s portrmato for my pleasure. This is why I love good people in Tehama County.

I plead guilty that I spent too much time writing about the things that take us down; The wanderers along the antelope boulevard, reckless and careless drivers, small theft on farms and our local stores, a weak management/governance, the failure of the city of Corning to attract the companies and, in this sense. But the truth is that we live in one of the most beautiful places in California. I should focus this column more on the “good things”.

Last week, I met two water “experts” in Sacramento and they couldn’t get over how beautiful it was in their north. They were surprised by the proximity of our green legs to the snow-covered mountains in Shasta and Lassen, while the valley narrows north on I-5. Then they asked about the organization of our county government, water districts, unemployment rates, etc. And they decided that maybe El Dorado County was not so bad.

I remember my first trip to the Tehama County Court as a new editor of Corning Daily Observer about 35 years ago (WOW). From Fifth Street, I took the less traveled route through Old Highway 99W. A real -life painting began to outline somewhere between Corning and Gerber. On both sides of the highway, a canopy of trees bursts with auburn leaves and red tones, forming a lifetime mural. In the middle of this arcade, Mount Shasta rose with its shiny, snowy tip. At that moment, I realized that Tehama County was a special place. By the way, that little sweet place on the road still exists. The trees lost the glow.

After that first gorgeous leadership to Red Bluff, I arrived at my first surveillance board in a courtyard as beautiful and historical in Tehama county. I think Nelson Buck, with his shiny cowboy boots, was a county councilor and George Robson was planning director. These were the days when the management of Tehama County was strong and vibrant. Or maybe I was just young and naive.

Remembering in the first days of my arrival in Corning, our company, Morris Newspaper Corporation, has just purchased the little daily daily and she housed me at Shilo Inn, now Holiday Inn Express, near the Corning truck. The truck stop of the current Love was a batch of dirt abandoned with old, rusty gas tanks. It was a Dudley Petty truck station, known for good food and a hangout for locals. The intersection seemed quite harsh when I arrived in 1991.

Once I entered the hotel at the hotel for a week’s stay, I immediately called my dad to ask how long I was stuck in this place called Corning. The next morning, I was relieved to discover Solatano Street and not The Petro Truck Stop, it was the real center. Through Solano, cute showcases like Mari’s Dress Shop, Smiley’s Furniture, 3 Jays and The Shoe Tree Coleck. There was even a steak, Pat’s villa, where Corning Rotary Club organized the weekly meetings on Wednesday on the 99 road.

Inspired inside a picturesque brick building on the fifth street, Corning Daily Observer stood. A long shed behind the brick news room held the print press. In 1991, Seedy-O, as he called it, printed and published everything on the spot. My job was to help combine the news staff, Willows, Orland and Colusa after purchase. I was successful in merging the print press, which moved to Willows. I found out quickly, however, that Corning and Orland and Colusa are worlds outside and the rivals do not like to share the sports coverage of the first pages.

I did an update of Honey Bee this week with my memory trip on the memory tape. So, if you are still with me, let me offer quick news about the health of Bee Hive this year.

The same day, my honey bees column ran last week, AG Alert wore a story about the high mortality rate of boys. I am not a scientist, but the cold and wind pollenization window, probably did not help the problems.

The commercial beekeeping industry is facing significant national losses at national level, ”said Ryan Burris, president of the California State Association of the article.

Burris, an beekeeper of the county of Shasta from the fourth generation and the breeder of the bee queen, said that he is especially concerned with the cultivators who did not provide pollination contracts with the beekeepers at the beginning of the year.

A bee poll conducted in the last nine months suggests that commercial beekeepers have reported a loss of 62 percent compared to the average loss of 30 percent.

“It was a very harsh winter,” Burris said. “We started to hear about losses in early November.”

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