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Photos by George L. Winship, Editor

  • Fifty-four friends of Paint Marts store owners Joe and Sharon Schuler attended the Anderson Rotary Club's 40th annual Crab Feed dressed as 'trailer trash.' Their table was decorated with assorted underwear and lingerie, the table cloth was newspapers, aluminum pie tins served as plates and cockroaches and flies galore (plastic ones only) clustered on the tabletop.
  • Anderson Rotary Club member Frank Sharrah collects his second John P. Harris Fellow pin, signifying a donation of $1,000 or more to Rotary International's annual Programs Fund, PolioPlus, or the Humanitarian Grants Program. People who have that amount contributed in their name can also be recognized as Paul Harris Fellows. Each new Paul Harris Fellow receives a commemorative certificate and a pin.
  • Anderson Rotary Club members Kim Chamberlain, seated on left, and Jeannie Littleton sold 4,000 raffle tickets at six for $5 or multiples thereof during the club's 40th annual Crab Feed, Jan. 9, at the Shasta District Fair grounds in Anderson.
  • FFA students from Anderson Union High School prepare to slice lemons and make green salads as crowds gather for the 40th annual Anderson Rotary Club Crab Feed Jan. 9 at the Shasta District Fair grounds.
  • Chris Young and Dennis Patterson, both members of the Anderson Rotary Club, discuss bar tending strategies prior to the arrival of more than 900 people at the club's 40th annual Crab Feed Jan. 9.
  • Cindy Nelson, wife of Anderson Rotary Club member Sam Nelson, pitches in to help create the club's signature seafood chowder, served prior to the arrival of freshly-cracked Dungeness Crab caught off the Northern California coast and trucked in from the pier at Crescent City.
  • Anderson Rotary Club members Chris Young and Doug Hirsch mix up some spicy cocktail sauce for the 40th annual Crab Feed, held Saturday, Jan. 9, at the Shasta District Fair grounds.
  • Butch Schaefer displays his plaque and thanks supporters for helping him successfully complete his most recent two-year term as Mayor Anderson, a term that ended Jan. 5, 2010, with the election of Norma Comnick as Mayor.
  • Norma Comnick, 75, elected Mayor of Anderson for third time
  • Laying to Rest: A member of the honor guard puts a flag in place during the Missing in America Project’s nearly two-hour ceremony to fold 14 flags that will accompany three urns across the country to Arlington National Cemetery. The procession left Allen & Dahl funeral chapel in Palo Cedro on May 20.
  • Pulling Forward - Even four-year-old Kiara Evans enjoys pulling merchandise forward to make the shelves look their best for an easy shopping experience at Di$count Groceries in Anderson. Helping Kiara are Timothy Smith, 8, and his father, Brian Smith.
  • New business in town. Owners of Di$count Groceries in Anderson stand proudly in their new store. The Smith family recently moved to Anderson from Bremerton, Wash. In 2007, they lost their home, most of their belongings and their business, a family-owned restaurant, due to flooding. From left, Angelina Smith, 16, Josefina Smith, 18, Brian Smith, Timothy Smith, 8, Venus Smith, Kiara Evans, 4, and Cathryn Evans, a sister of Mrs. Smith.
  • Holiday decor honors those veterans who served their country and willingly offered even their lives in sacrifice for the nation's freedom and safety.
  • Joan Raffa (center) and her grand-daughter, Kat, carry armloads of wreaths to decorate grave markers at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo. More than 200 people, some relatives and others simply volunteers, decorated more than 900 graves locally as part of the national Wreaths Across America program. In total, more than 151,000 wreaths were placed at 400 state and national cemeteries in the United States and 24 national cemeteries located on foreign soil.
  • A woman stands quietly, thinking about the loved one whose grave marker she has just decorated with a holiday wreath and ribbon at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo. The grave decoration was part of the 18th annual Wreaths Across America program, the third year that the local veterans cemetery has joined the national program.
  • Another of McDilda's model trains, this one designed to haul several passenger cars with real people sitting on the roof of each coach.
  • Just a kid at heart, Jim McDilda collects model trains including a 1904 steam locomotive built by the Cagney Locomotive Works in New York for hauling visitors at the St. Louis, Mo., World's Fair, also in 1904.
  • Electricians make some last-minute adjustments to the poinsettia arch leading to the skating rink.
  • A gingerbread house - one of several dozen expected to be on display in Santa's Workshop during the Christmas Holiday Spectacular at the Shasta District Fair grounds in Anderson
  • Bill McKinney, commander of the Korean War Veterans Association, Nor Cal Chapter 1, and Kim Chamberlain, a native of Seoul, Korea, flank the memorial they worked tirelessly to erect.
  • The Korean War memorial stone and ceremonial wreath honoring those veterans who answered their country's call to 'defend a country they never knew and a people they never met.'
  • Ken Green, founding commander of the Korean War Veterans Association, Chapter 1, in Northern California, joins Dick Adams, first national commander of the organization as well as Leroy Neuenfeld, local chapter treasurer, in unveiling a 5-foot tall black granite slab that will serve as a memorial for 'Korea, the Forgotten War -- Remembered.' The memorial was dedicated Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009, at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo.
  • More houses await completion in The Vineyards now that an adequate water supply has been connected to the subdivision's network of pipes that had previously been supplied, albeit inadequately, from a construction well.
  • ITS A GUSHER -- Phil Valdez, 52, a supervisor with the City of Anderson's Public Works Department, tests the pressure and volume of water available for firefighting in an undeveloped portion of The Vineyards subdivision.
  • IT STILL FITS -- Anderson Union High School alumnus Vickie (Romero) Adkisson receives the 1966 class ring she lost in October of 1965 from Cottonwood's U.S. Postmaster Beverly Fickes, whose father Walter Hicks found the ring 15 years ago while metal detecting on the Red Bluff High School athletic field where a set of visitor bleachers was being replaced. The initials 'V' and 'R' led Fickes to eventually discover and track down Gib and Vickie Adkisson in Clovis, Calif., near Fresno. The return of the ring ceremony, held 44 years later, took place Oct. 23, 2009, on the campus of Anderson Union High School, which recently celebrated its centennial.
  • Plasterers finish up one of 10 houses left unfinished when The Vineyards was discovered to have inadequate water supply to fight fires or flush toilets. A construction well that had supplied a trickle of water to the subdivision has been replaced recently with a pumping substation and a direct tie-in to the City of Anderson's water treatment plant.
  • Anderson Public Works Director Jeff Kiser inspects a pump station pressure guage following fireflow tests in The Vineyards subdivision last week. Adequate water supplies in the subdivision mean construction and sales of homes can resume as soon as market conditions allow.
  • Anderson Union High School Principal Scott Booth, left, meets with 1966 graduate Vickie (Romero) Adkisson of Clovis and U.S. Postmaster Beverly Fickes of Cottonwood shortly after Fickes gave Adkisson the Class of 1966 ring that Adkisson had lost 44 years ago in October 1965.
  • A Shasta Wildlife Rescue volunteer holds a kestral, the smallest day-feeding raptor common to much of North America. Some kestrals migrate long distances each year, ranging from the Alaskan tundra to South America, and back.
  • During the Return of the Salmon Festival, booths from various wildlife and natural resource agencies, both state and federal, line walkways near the Coleman National Fish Hatchery's rearing ponds. In the background are the actual hatchery buildings where nearly 12 million salmon are incubated until the young smolt hatch. They are moved from small to ever larger holding tanks inside the buildings until they reach a size where they can reasonably survive outdoor temperatures in the rearing tanks.
  • Life Cycle Croquet teaches youngsters as well as parents about the life cycle of salmon -- from the dangers young smolt face from other fish, wildlife and irrigation pumps as they swim downstream to the Pacific Ocean -- to the open ocean dangers and then the many obstacles the fish face as mature adults ready to spawn and their long trip upstream to the native water in which they hatched.
  • A Coleman National Fish Hatchery worker holds a typical adult salmon up for viewers. The largest salmon on the cart weighed 85 pounds, about as much as some of the young children who were touring the hatchery with their parents during the 19th annual Return of the Salmon Festival held Oct. 17.
  • Coleman National Fish Hatchery feeding ponds are always a popular draw for visitors during the 'Return of the Salmon Festival.' The ponds hold various sized immature salmon that are protected from natural predators until they are large enough to survive most of the dangers of Battle Creek and the Sacramento River. As they mature, they are released into the creek to begin their journey to the Pacific Ocean, where they will swim, feed and grow for three to seven years before returning to the hatchery where the milt and roe are harvested for another generation.
  • Sharrah's plaque
  • The bronze plaque bearing Sharrah's likeness is a tribute to his efforts as Anderson's Director of Public Works to 'put the City of Anderson on the map with the initial stages of what would be one of the finest parks in Northern California,' Anderson River Park.
  • From left, Frank Sawyer and John Dunlap share a few pertinent stories about the accomplishments of their partner, John Sharrah, who was honored Wednesday, Sept. 30, by the Anderson Rotary Club for having the foresight in 1965, when hired as Anderson's Director of Public Works, to acquire and begin development of the 500-acre Dodson Ranch along the Sacramento River into what is now Anderson River Park.
  • The boulder bearing Sharrah's plaque in Anderson River Park was erected near the gazebo and barbecue pits, both of which were earlier construction projects of the Anderson Rotary Club.
  • Window detail on Eric Clapton's 1949 Ford Tudor Coupe. Originally made from thin strips of metal, the seamless window frame on this rebuilt car were machined instead from one solid block of aluminum for a better fit and a nicer look.
  • Dan Laughlin, owner of the Anderson shop that bears his name, checks the positions of blocks underneath the raw steel body of Eric Clapton's 1949 Ford Tudor Coupe.
  • Redding Mayor Rick Bosetti congratulates Anderson Union High School on its centennial celebration. Bosetti is a 19?? graduate of the school.
  • Patti and Rick Bosetti, both alums of Anderson High, check out the trophies and sports memorabilia on display in the large gym. The display cabinets, worth $17,000, were custom-built and paid for with donations from the Centennial All-Class Reunion.
  • One of the many returning alumni from Anderson Union High School has his or her car decorated for the Centennial All-Class Reunion bash, Sept. 3-5.
  • Anderson Mayor Butch Schaefer, Class of 197?, presents a City Council resolution congratulating his alma mater Anderson Union High School on its centennial observance Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009. The first day of class at Anderson High was Sept. 13, 1909.

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