It’s almost Rodeo Week in Red Bluff and Redding… when everyone is a cowboy! To celebrate, cowboys like a great barbecue. And what is a barbecue without hearty Cowboy Beans? You can’t go wrong with these!

KOOL APRIL NITES is a nonprofit organization that presents a week-long public event for classic car enthusiasts every April.

March 2018

Christine Haggard, Community Organizer, Shasta County Health & Human, Services Agency

SHASTA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS are building a contraption that’s slightly bigger than a can of dog food with circuit-board innards, skinny antennae and a covering of wafer-thin solar panels.

WITH A CAREER spanning nearly a half century, 10 Grammy wins, and an induction into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Bonnie Raitt is one of the most successful artists in music today.

THE HUMMINGBIRD fascinates people. A tiny flyer seems to appear out of nowhere, hovering impossibly near flower or feeder.

JUST ASK ANYBODY in the Chico area, “What’s the best place to see and hear about Northern California agricultural history?” and the answer is invariably the Patrick Ranch Museum.

CHERYL CARTER knows the first day of work for each new cohort at Red Bluff’s Washington Street Productions brings employees with more than first-day-of-work jitters.

IT ALL STARTED BACK IN 1947, when a group of hardy Methodists who’d been camping out in the forest below Castle Lake began building a permanent camp.