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January 2019 Volume 25 Number 5
Happy New Year! Welcome new beginnings and new friends,
new ideas and bright futures. This past year has been amazing. We welcomed new neighbors, volunteers, programs, teachers and the idea that we are ready to build a new com-munity center! Together we can keep this mo-mentum going. We need all of you to make our collective dreams come true. We need movers and shakers, risk takers and collective thinkers. Please reach out and offer any assistance you may be willing to provide. We have a chance to create a legacy for generations to come to enjoy and benefit from. Join us in our campaign to cement our place in Bridgeville history, to create a place where all community members can feel safe to gather and socialize, to receive concrete support in times of need and to celebrate mo-mentous occasions. This dream can be as big or as little as we make it, it all depends on the level of community support we have behind us. We can do this. NOTHING has ever happened in Bridgeville because it was handed to us; it has taken hard work and dedication from the many talented hearts in our wonderful commu-nity.
The BCC would like to thank all of the donors who made our holiday programs so amazing this year. Thank you to the Bridgeville Baptist Church, Richard Church, Claudia Sauers and the Holiday Funding Partnership. We had 100
people attend our annual holiday dinner, we gave out 60 turkeys and 75 hams along with other miscellaneous items. We also could not have done it without our tireless volunteers who helped to shop, bag food, and handout food, cook, clean, setup and takedown. We would like to send a huge thank you out to: Terri Con-roy, Claudia Sauers, Kay Brown, Tony Javier, Judy Mcclintock, Rene Hudson, Maria Navar-rette, Jacob Navarrette, Elliot Brown, Kate McCay and Lyn Javier . Thank you to Randy Krahn for graciously offering to MC the event. We love the humor and personality you bring to our events.
I would personally like to thank Terri Conroy for all of her help every month with our Dinsmore food pantry. This is not an easy job. It is early mornings in the rain and heat, heavy lifting and less than hospitable conditions. I am so thankful for her amazing help and good atti-tude through all of. Terri, you are a beautiful and giving soul and we are so thankful to have you on our team!
Please come to the BCC with any ideas or needs that you may have. Do not forget that we are here to help Tues-day through Friday with all of your CalFresh, MediCal and CalWorks needs. We can also as-sist you with resumes and computer skills, clothes, and many other resources.
Best wishes in the New Year,
Chantal Campbell
Inside this Month
Bridgeville United Healthy Spirits
Dear MFP BVFD News
Are We Crazy or What TRCCG News
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Bridgeville Community Newsletter
Published monthly by the Bridgeville Community Center
Attila Gyenis—Editor
Bridgeville Community Center PO Box 3 Bridgeville, CA 95526 Tel: (707) 777-1775
Email– [email protected]
Comments and corrections are always welcome. Manage-
ment is not responsible for any errors, omissions, or other
editorial mis-statements, intentional or otherwise. The views
expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the
Bridgeville Community Center or its staff. If you have any
other concerns, please submit them in triplicate.
Humboldt County Bookmobile
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They Deliver Bookmobile: (707) 267-9933
Bridgeville Community Newsletter
Published monthly by the Bridgeville Community Center
Attila Gyenis—Editor
Bridgeville Community Center PO Box 3 Bridgeville, CA 95526 Tel: (707) 777-1775
Email– [email protected] www.BridgevilleCommunityCenter.org
Bridgeville Community Center
Mission Statement
“The Bridgeville Community Center is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all our community members. We are committed to bringing people of all ages together to encourage good health, self-esteem, creativity, and personal development.”
Bridgeville Quilters The Bridgeville Quilters hope to have their first meeting Monday January 14, 2019 at 2pm. This is our planning session so everyone should bring ideas for the BridgeFest quilt.
HWY 36 Construction Update
While construction is winding down, there is still construction weather permitting, with 30 minute delays.
Caution is advised when driving through the construction zone in the switchbacks. Rock slides, snow and flooding can cause possible hazardous driving conditions.
Project Details: A realignment project between Humboldt Post Mile 36.05 and Humboldt Post Mile 40.44.
Please drive carefully at all times. Slow Down.
Who are the members of the Bridgeville Community Center Board of Directors?
Kay Brown, Joyce Church, Clover Howeth, Lyn Javier, Gabriel Marien
Happy New Year!
Bridgeville United is grateful for all the resi-dent support we have had in the past year. We
could not have done this without you all. We are ready to start 2019 and share some news and up-coming events.
First off, we would like to welcome Maria Navar-rette as the Assistant Community Organizer. We are so thrilled to have Maria’s enthusiasm and leader-ship skills around more than we already do!
The Community Center received 1,000 donated Bombas socks and we will be distributing them at our events or in the office-if you and your family is in need, please swing by and grab your loved ones some socks this winter.
Women’s Gathering will begin again on Sunday January 20th: Yoga at Noon, Potluck 1pm, Free Child Care
For those who have been curious, there will be a FREE CPR/FIRST AID CLASS on Saturday Febru-ary 16th-details to be determined, please call 707-777-1775 to sign up now.
If anyone is interested in how Measure S (cannabis tax) is being allocated for our area and would like to work with our core group resident leaders, please feel free to email Chi Chi- [email protected]
Have a safe and bountiful New Year, Chi Chi and Maria
Most Excellent Pretty Good Writers Group
Saturday, January 19, 10-Noon
Join us if you want to share your writing.
Call Kate at 601-7983 for more information.
Visit the Bridgeville Community Website:
www.BridgevilleCommunityCenter.org
The Bridgeville Community Center (BCC) began in 1991 with a Healthy Start Grant. This funding allowed the community to plan and build a Community Center that would provide ser-vices to the school children, their families and the community-at-large.
The vision behind the Community Center is to improve the well-being of all members of the community, from children to adults. We provide family centered supportive services with the be-lief that educational and life success cannot be separated from physical health, social and emo-tional support, and strong families.
Office hours are Tuesday-Friday 9 am-4 pm.
The following services are available to you and your family:
Resource Room Here’s a place to hold community meet-ings, classes, or special events. A TV/DVD, Washer/Dryer & shower are also available.
Computers
We have two computers for free public use, with high-speed & wireless access to the Internet and word processing programs.
Food Bank
USDA Commodities are distributed once a month. Emergency foods & special food programs for sen-iors, homebound people, and children.
Clothes Closet
Free clothes and shoes are available. Just stop by to take advantage of this service. We accept donations of clean items in good condition.
Fire Safe Council
The Fire Safe Council provides free home and prop-erty inspections and conducts brush clearing and fire safety projects.
Pre-School & Teen Groups There are play groups scheduled throughout the year. If you are interested, please contact the BCC.
Senior Programs
Senior trips and activities are scheduled throughout the year. Senior exercise classes are offered Tues-days and Thursdays. Seniors are also welcome to attend the Pot Luck Community Brunch.
Weekly Potluck Community Brunch The Bridgeville Community Center is having a ‘Weekly Community Potluck Brunch’ every Thursday at 11:30. Everyone is welcome and bring a potluck dish if you are able. It will be held at the Bridgeville Community Center. Hope to see you there.
Bridgeville Newsletter
A monthly newsletter for the community and by the community has information on local events happen-ing in and around Bridgeville.
Family Support
We provide support to families and individuals in need of information and resources. We can help community members connect with health and social services.
Hospice and Palliative Care The Two Rivers Community Care Group is a volun-teer group dedicated to serving those families & indi-viduals facing life-threatening or life-altering ill-nesses, including those needing palliative or end-of-life care.
Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Department
The BVFD’s mission is to preserve & protect life and property in the event of fires & emergencies. Their strategy is to provide our community with the fastest possible response time by well-trained and equipped responders. For questions on any of these activities, please contact the BCC at 777-1775.
Bridgeville
Community
Center
Bridgeville is home to BridgeFest, the annual
event when Aliens and Humans gather on the old bridge and determine, once and for all, who is Flying Saucer Contest Champion and Grand Emperor of the Universe. Come join us in August.
Healthy Spirits By Lauri Rose, RN
It’s January and time for a new you! Right, heard that one before. I think most Resolutions last from midnight to 12 noon when our old desires start pes-tering us until we smoke a cigarette, sit on the couch, drink a beer and kick the dog because we blew it again.
Homo Sapiens are notorious for hanging on to what we know. Not making changes is a successful strategy when eating the wrong plant or going in the wrong direction can mean death. And there is also our need to belong. Needing to be accepted by the tribe is enough to make us do really stupid things, as anyone who has been an adolescent knows. Many studies have shown we would rather deny facts than go against the ways of our family. That is one of the reasons abused children abuse or the kids of smok-ers take up smoking, “Hey look gang, I’m one of us.” However, beings that can’t adapt go extinct.
If you really want to change you have to admit how your present behavior is negatively affecting you. When you have admitted a behavior is no longer helpful for you, you have left Denial and moved into Contemplation. Often at Contemplation we have acknowledged that a change is needed but we really aren’t ready to work at changing. If we at-tempt change at this stage failure is assured. So, don’t attempt, wait until you know you are ready. Want to motivate yourself out of Contemplation and into Action? Start listing all the reasons the change is positive; you’ll have more money, feel more ener-gized, have more friends. Think about how the change relates to who you are. Soon you’ll be say-
ing, “Hey, I want to do this. I’m ready to make an effort.”
The mistake most people fall into at this stage is to leap to the end goal. They want to change their diet so they throw away all the mac and cheese and make themselves miserable for a week before they give up and say, “I can’t do it, I will never change.” The key to long-term change is to take baby steps. Small successes build confidence. When you want to become a size 8 again it may seem silly to prom-ise to just exercise 10 minutes 2 times a week. But, that is doable where wholesale disruption of your life probably isn’t. A journey of a thousand miles be-gins with one small step. Once you make room for ten minutes twice a week you’ll start to see where you can do it three times a week, and then where you can expand into 20 minutes 3 times a week, etc, etc.
Another key to success is to identify problems that may come up and strategies to deal with them. If you are hunting tigers it is much better to go armed then try to pick up a stick while being clawed. If you say, “I’ll just quit” you are far less likely to be successful than if you plan ahead for obstacles.
This New Year’s give yourself a leg up. Don’t promise something you aren’t ready to work at. Let yourself be okay with taking baby steps towards your goal, really small baby steps. Let your brain and imagination work for you and come up with a strategy for every obstacle you can think of. Re-member, your friends will give you lots of advice, listen (friends do sometimes have good ideas), but only accept the tactics that resonate with you. No matter how wacky your ideas seem, if they come from you they are probably the best solutions for you.
Senior Outing On December 6th, Bridgeville United sponsored a holiday luncheon for Bridgeville's senior women at Ferndale's Gingerbread Mansion Inn. Hosted by Maria Navarrette, an elegant tea luncheon was prepared by the Inn, after which the women were taken on a tour of the three story 1869 mansion.
On December 18th, the Bridgeville Elementary School put on their 2018 Winter Program, "Elfis and the Sleigh Rid-ers". The student's music teacher, Mr. Cox, led 14 stu-dents in the Reindeer Choir and 15 student "Elfis" actors in performing and singing super cool holiday "Elfis" style songs, with Cara Kent impersonating "Elfis". For an en-core, Santa Claus showed up with stockings and presents for all the students. The BES Booster club offered free goodies and punch to complete this great school/community event!
“Dear MFP” (Master Food Preserver)
By Dottie Simmons
BRIDGEVILLE Volunteer
FIRE Department
On behalf of the Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Department, Inc. (BVFDI), and the Bridgeville Fire Protection District (BFPD) we would like to take the time to thank you for your continued support through the 2018 year. Your generous donations support the volunteer department through the purchase of much‐needed emer-gency equipment and supplies, and provide for training opportunities. We are looking forward to another great year serving Bridgeville and the neighboring communities.
The Bridgeville Fire volunteers responded to approximately 100 call this year. Those calls were comprised of 20% fire which includes structure, auto and wildland, 30% traffic acci-dents, 35% medical and 15% other.
BFPD is always looking for additional volun-teers. Feel free to stop in at a meeting and learn more about how the Department and Dis-trict serve your community. BVFDI meets on the first Tuesday of each month at the fire hall, and BFPD meets 5pm the second Monday of the month at the Bridgeville Community Center.
Thank You for your Support.
Oranges! The Winter Fruit
Oranges come in several forms- Navels, Blood or-anges, Valencia, Cara Cara. They can be preserved by drying or by making marmalade.
Often dried for potpourri or decorations, dried or-anges are delightful as snacks or cut into small pieces added to tea by themselves or with spices.
To dry: Wash and dry fruit. Slice into 1/4 inch thick rings. Remove seeds. Arrange on dehydrator trays so they don’t touch and set heat to 110 degrees. Or use trays in a 200° oven. Depending on size, they may take up to two days. They’re done when brittle. Store in air-tight containers.
Orange-Lemon Marmalade / Yield about 12 cups 3 cups thinly sliced orange peel (about 4 large oranges)
31/2 cups orange pulp, chopped
3-1/2 cups thinly sliced lemon (about 4 large lemons)
6 cups of water
sugar
Procedure: Rinse oranges and lemons. Combine fruit and water in a
large pot. Bring to boil and simmer 5 minutes. Cover and let stand 12 to 18 hours in a cool place.
Reheat and cook rapidly until peel is tender. Measure fruit mixture.
Add 1 cup sugar for each cup fruit and bring slowly to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Cook rapidly just to the jel-lying point**, stirring occasionally to prevent sticking. Remove from heat. Skim foam as needed. Ladle marmalade into hot jars, leaving ¼" headspace. Wipe rims and adjust lids.
Process jars in a Boiling Water bath or Steam Canner, according to manufacturer’s instructions, for 10 minutes. Over 6000 feet, increase processing to 15 minutes.
Let jars cool, undisturbed, 12 to 24 hours.
** Jellying point Temperature Test – Check temperature of the jelly with a candy or jelly thermometer. When done, the temperature should be 8°F above the boiling point of water, 220°F if you are at sea level. For each 1000 feet of altitude above sea level, subtract 2 degrees. At 1,000 feet of altitude, jelly is done at 218°F; at 2,000 feet, 216°F, etc. (Test accuracy of the thermometer by placing it in boiling water). Spoon or Sheet Test – Dip cool metal spoon into boiling jelly then lift out of steam so syrup runs off the side. At first the drops will be light and syrupy. As boiling continues, drops be-come heavier and drop off two at a time. When drops form together and "sheet" off the spoon, jellying point has been reached.
Now you have a good supply of marmalade to enjoy for the year ahead. If you have questions, ask us.
Hose Testing December 2018 @ CalFire
Fire Safety during the Winter
As it gets colder, remember to: Keep area clear around heating sources (stove,
heater, fireplace, lights) Get a smoke detector and CO detector.
TRCCG News Two Rivers Community Care Group
ARE WE CRAZY OR WHAT? (BACK TO THE LAND in our 60's and beyond)
Living and Dying The New Year is a nice symbolic time to think about
the future. But what if you, or someone you love, does-n’t have much future left. How would/will it be different if you know you are likely to die within the next year?
Some people want advice about how to die the ‘right’ way, or die ‘well’. Of course there is no ‘right’ way to die anymore than there is a ‘right’ way to live. Everyone approaches death differently. Some people use it as a spiritual tunnel to discover the meaning of life, some people mourn every loss of function with grief or anger. Some simply deny dying is happening and move through the losses without ever acknowledg-ing the inevitable end. Every one of those strategies is legitimate, with the caveat that each approach to dying will effect your friends and families in more or less stressful ways. Most people die as they live, so per-haps you care about how your dying effects others and perhaps you don’t.
One thing a dying person can do to help the ones they love is to ‘take care of business’, which is a euphemism for mending bridges with family and friends and wrapping up any financial chaos that is lurking, in-cluding making wills. Even people in full-blown denial can do this because really, this is the work of living. Please don’t wait until you are staring death in the eye to get your house in order. Nor should you wait until your death bed to say to those you love: Please forgive me, I forgive you, I love you and Thank-you.
Being in the process of dying and being someone caregiving for someone who is dying are two very dif-ferent experiences. Although dying comes with many questions and always with the uncertainty of ‘when and how’, for the most part people who are dying are really still just doing what we all do, living a life and rolling with the punches. But, those who are caregiving live with the need to DO SOMETHING. And they bear the agony of needing to do it right because the stakes are high and they probably won’t get another chance. The caregivers are the ones cooking food that’s not eaten, rubbing lotion on burning feet and deciding if another trip to the ER is worth it. And often times when caring for someone who is dying there are no good some-things to do. At some point the only choice is between doing nothing or doing nothing with love and presence. Bearing witness to the dying of one you love is actually one of the greatest somethings a caregiver can do. To be truly and totally present to someone with love in your heart is a rare gift to give. It’s easier to do if you’ve practiced it, so again, don’t wait for death to knock on the door, do it now.
One last thought to leave you with. When does liv-ing end and dying begin?
Blimps, A Resolution and Ranch Deceasement Counts
Have you seen two blimps floating by? Could they be a smaller version of the ‘Good Year’ blimp?
Well, look again...those two floating butter-balls are really us - filled with holiday ginger-bread houses, Russian teacakes, peppernuts, decorated sugar cookies galore, fresh pecan pie, rhubarb-strawberry filled Bulgarian cream cakes, macadamia puffs, chocolate-covered marshmallow bars, peanut butter filled pretzels and all other decadent carbohydrates we could have lived without, but didn't. Now it is all rest-ing happily in our corpulent stomachs, waiting for our New Year's fat flush exercise and diet regime to melt away our remorseful but delight-ful rounds of gluttony.
Enough of that. For our New Year of 2019, we have remembered our long list of resolutions we wrote in one of our New Years articles years back. Well, no more! We now think it isn't right to stuff one's mind with foolish things. So our resolution this year fills one sen-tence: "Do unto others as we would want them to do unto us While volunteering as much as our minds can take and Getting those important pro-jects done before it all falls down and goes boom, Hopefully before we kick the bucket". Simple and possibly Obtainable.
Deceasement Report Our neighborhood wily fox finally found a
hole in the chicken run fence so one more 8 year old chicken down, 3 to go. We have tallied up the protective kills our cats have presented to us in 2018: 16 gophers of all size, 132 baby mice, 75 adult mice and 41 mole/vole. They have had three wrangles with various rattle-snakes with no deaths on either side.
Wishing you all a Happy and Content New Year!
Kate McCay and Lyn Javier TwoCrones Ranch, Larabee Valley
In theory there is no difference between theory
and practice. In practice there is.
—Yogi Berra
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The Mad Group - Invites you to join us!! When: Sundays @ 2:00 pm
Wednesdays @ 5:30 pm
Where: Community Center, Mad River
(on Van Duzen Road) AA
On Sunday, December 2nd, more than 100 community members enjoyed the free annual Holiday Dinner put on by the Bridgeville Community Center. Turkey, Ham and all the fixings was prepared by volunteers Kay Brown, Lyn Javier, Chantal Campbell, Tony Javier and Jacob & Maria Navarrette with Attila Gyenis and Elliot Brown helping with set up and sound. Accompanying the main meal were wonderful dishes and desserts provided by our community members. Our favorite master of cere-monies, Randy Krahn, called out raffle ticket and silent auction winners. Much laughter, talking and eating was had by all at this favorite December Bridgeville event.
The Bridgeville Baptist Church
Sunday School- 9:45-10:45 am, Sunday Worship- 11:00-12:00
We are on Alderpoint Road, just past the Bridgeville Bridge off Hwy 36.
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Mondays: BCC CLOSED
Tuesdays: Strength & balance exercise class 10:30-11:30
Thursdays: Strength & balance exercise class 10:30-11:30
Community Potluck Brunch 11:30 – 1
Interested in being Bridgeville Community Center Board Member? Contact the Commu-nity Center at 777-1775.
January 2019
REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
“You will never do anything in this world with-out courage.”
–Aristotle
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Happy New Year
2 3 4 5
6 7 8 Bookmobile 10:30
9 10 BCC Board 3:30
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13 14 15 16 17 18 BCC USDA Food Pantry, 10am-4pm
19 Most Excellent Pretty Good Writers Group
20 Women’s Gathering
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“The time is always right to do what is right.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
22 BCC Mobile Food Pantry- @ Dinsmore, 8:30 am-11:30am
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“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.”
—Les Brown
Local Community Breakfasts
NOTE: December was the last ‘Six Rivers Sen-ior Breakfast’ until April 2019 (usually held first Sunday of the month at Mad River).
Stop Smoking. This could be the year.
Call 1 (800) NO BUTTS
