Spotlight Articles
Spotlight: Artist's Eye View
Published in June 2010 - story: Sandie Tillery photo: James Mazzotta TRAVELING ARTIST MARY ANNE BEAULAC How great would it be to share a passion and teach others while sailing to ports around the world? Mary Anne Beaulac has found a way. A North State resident and art instructor for more than 35 years, she has “retired” and found a part-time outlet that allows her to teach watercolor painting while enjoying the luxu..
Spotlight: Red Carpet Affair
Published in March 2010 - story: Kallie Markle photos: Courtesy Of Jesse Rosten Second Annual Sundial Film Festival You’ve purchased your ticket, picked out the best plush red seat and have already started nibbling popcorn when the theatre lights dim and the projector behind you starts up. There’s something different about this film, though: instead of a Hollywood soundstage, it’s set in your neighborhood, and ..
Spotlight: Gettin' Hooked
Published in December 2009 - story: Joshua Corbelli photos: Paul Heath BASSHOLE BAR AND GRILL Cheryl and David Dulon had a dream. Then residing in the San Francisco Bay area, the idea that they would one day own a business was always at the forefront of their minds. They saw an ad, made a move and now, 13 years later, the Basshole Bar and Grill is more of a destination than it’s ever been. It’s located at 20725 Lake..
Spotlight: Elite Trainer
Published in November 2009 - story: Jim Dyar photo courtesy of Don Smith/San Jose Sharks As a freshman at Anderson High School in the late 1970s, Ray Tufts discovered the book “The First Aider” by the Cramer Sports Medicine Co., and used it as a guide to help athletes recover from sprains, bumps and bruises. Back then, the field of sports medicine was in its infancy. Wherever Tufts went, however, he soaked up informa..
Spotlight: Ball Dudes
Published in November 2009 - story: Ronda Olson-Ball BUCKET LIST DREAM COME TRUE I grew up listening to San Francisco Giants games on transistor radios, car radios and televisions. I remember being bored out of my mind with talk at the dinner table between my father and four brothers about the Giants. Willie Mays, Orlando Cepeda, Willie McCovey, and Juan Marichal were like extended members of our family. I could never figure out why ..
Spotlight: Steel In Business
Published in October 2009 - story and photos: Wyatt Olson 80 YEARS OF GERLINGER STEEL Anyone who has driven through downtown Redding has likely noticed the large red sign emblazoned with, “Gerlinger Steel and Supply,” but few realize that inside those retro brick buildings operates one of the oldest companies in Redding. Gerlinger Steel opened 80 years ago and has been involved with some of the most groundbreaking and im..
Spotlight: Harmonious Herd
Published in September 2009 - story and photo: Jon Lewis MACDOLE'S PRATHER RANCH A National Public Radio reporter was touring Prather Ranch recently and took his recorder into a pasture to capture the sound of cattle mooing. There was only one problem: contented, healthy, relaxed, well-fed cows don’t have anything to moo about. The failure to provide the requisite sound effects may be the only drawback to life on this idyll..
Spotlight: Course Correction
Published in September 2009 - story: Jim Dyar photos: Devencarter.com ERIC MARSHALL'S ROAD TO RECOVERY It was a memorable crash for many reasons. For one thing, Eric Marshall’s busted-up Cessna 180 was completely visible from Buenaventura Boulevard, a busy driving route in west Redding. The plane smashed into a hill just above Starlight Boulevard, well short of the runway at Benton Airpark. But people also recall the c..
Spotlight: Rise Above
Published in August 2009 - story: Gary VanDeWalker photo: photographybytaryn.com THE WEED BAKERY Sourdough bread has a pungent, tangy taste unique to the age, humidity and elevation of the starter dough. A small portion of the starter is set aside, and if fed flour and water daily, it will last for years. The bread became the main food item of the California Gold Rush, as “sourdough” became a nickname for miners. Toda..
Spotlight: Trail Mix
Published in August 2009 - story: Michael O'Brien photos courtesy of Jim Milestone The Shasta Trinity Trail Connects the Mountains With the City Deep in the woods and along the cold streams that flow off Shasta Bally’s old growth forest, college students from the Student Conservation Association have finished constructing a new trail over Papoose Gulch. Like the miners and Chinese laborers from the California Gold Rush, th..
Spotlight: Born To Be Wild
Published in March 2009 - SHASTA WILDLIFE RESCUE AND REHABILITATION story: Sandie Tillery It’s birthing season in the wild wood… kits and pups, chicks and cygnets… babies crying, mothers nursing, fathers hunting. It is also the beginning of the busy season for Shasta Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, when they receive calls from concerned humans who have found injured and orphaned wildlife. Danger lurks in ma..
Spotlight: Last Frontier
Published in May 2008 - Story: Kerri Regan Redding Based Region 5 Smokejumpers Lightning sparks a blaze that rages through the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, far from the reach of fire hydrants and water tenders. From the sky, the cavalry arrives, bailing out of a plane and parachuting into the woods “I always wanted to pursue a job that was kind of extraordinary,” says Rick Rataj of Redding, who will soon begin..
