Volume XVI Issue 135

Friday, February 9th, 2024

Along with promoting the beef industry, the Cattlewomen and Cattlemen raise funds to award these scholarships each year to local youth in our community.

Completed applications must be postmarked by April 1st, 2024. If you have any questions please email lassencattlewomen@gmail.com or contact the Scholarship Chairman at P.O. Box 1469, Susanville, CA 96130.

• A pair of tickets to this Saturday’s Lassen Cattlewomen‘s Sip of Wine, Taste of Beef event in Jensen Hall at the Lassen County Fairgrounds. One of Susanville’s premiere annual events!
• Two movie passes and a $30 concession card from the Sierra Theater and Uptown Cinemas
• A bouquet of flowers and a box of chocolate truffles from Milwood Florist and Nursery
• Two mugs, fudge, jelly, jam and coffee gift box from The Bensons Humble Homestead
• One-dozen chocolate dipped strawberries from Merry Morsels
• A 60-minute Reiki session for two and an over-the-bottle resin wine glass holder and two matching bottle stoppers from Fair Winds Reiki & Mindfulness
• $35 Gift voucher for products from LHolloway::be creative

Lassen High’s FBLA competitors in Wheatland for the Northern California Section – photo provided

Gallery: Lassen FBLA Competitors Place Well at Section Conference

Lassen High School’s Future Business Leaders of America competitors traveled to Wheatland last week for the FBLA 2024 Northern California Section Conference and forty-seven students placed highly enough to move on to the state level April 11th in Anaheim.

Here are the results of the Wheatland competition from FBLA advisor Dawn Egan.

Accounting 1 – Aiden Baldwin 2nd

Advertising – Sara Daniels 5th, Adian Hollandsworth 4th

Ag Business – Katelyn Kirack 4th, Taylor Ackernecht 8th

Broadcast Journalism TEAM – Kawika Hathaway, Gavin Grady and Aiden Baldwin 2nd

Business Calculations – Reagan Shrum 6th, Olivia Wilkins 5th

Business Communications – Aryanna Saltzgaver 3rd, Hannah Matchniff 6th

Business Law – Gracie Edwards 7th, Adian Hollandsworth 2nd, Jessica Nakanishi 5th

Business Management – Jack Heimbigner and Mia Molina 4th

Computer Applications – Keegan Lewis 6th, Tucker Schall 2nd, Makayla Crosno 3rd

Computer Problem Solving – Chris Rigling 7th, Database Design – Hollin Thomas 2nd, Awapuhi Hathaway 1st

Economics – Justin Ellena 3rd

Entrepreneurship TEAM – Gracie Edwards, Awapuhi Hathway, Taylor McElhaney 4th

Hospitality TEAM – Brooklyn Glover, Breanna Fox, Connor Kirack 4th

HR Management – Lily Tinston 9th, Tucker Schall 5th, Bella Rivas 4th, Kylee Tancreto 10th

Impromptu- Lily Ammon 2nd, Insurance – Reagan Shrum 5th, Hazel Goumont 6th, Luke Clark 9th

International Business TEAM – Sara Daniels, Jessica Nakanishi, Justin Ellena 2nd

Intro to Bus Communication – Jazz Meza 4th, Into to Bus Concepts – Troy Ross 2nd, Taylor McElehaney 8th, Isa Smith 9th

Intro to Bus Procedures – Lily Fox 4th, Maya Thomlison 2nd and Jaycee Pontarolo 1st

Intro to Event Planning TEAM – Sienna Ellena, Hailie Plummer, Jazz Meza 3rd

Intro to FBLA – Kourtney McNutt 4th, Gavin Mueller 10th

Intro to Financial Math – Ethan Hengle 5th, Parker Langslet 6th, Hailie Plummer 4th

Intro to Info Tech – Keith Hengle 2nd, Ethan Hengle 6th

Job Interview – Katelyn Kirack 1st

Marketing TEAM – Zach Hart, Anthony Sanchez, Ryan Pena 5th

Personal Finance – Natalia Hernandez 5th

Sales Presentation TEAM – Gianna Hooker, Patrick Mattingly 2nd

Securities and Investments – Jaime Victoria 3rd

Sports Management TEAM – Connor Langslet, Nash Osborn, Parker Langslet 1st

Spreadsheet – Troy Ross 3rd, Emma Luna 2nd, Hannah Matchniff 1st

Supply Chain – Taylor McElhaney 9th, Keegan Lewis 7th, Natalia 6th

Word Processing – Maya Thomlinson 3rd, Jack Heimbigner 5th Julienne Bennett 6th

We have a lot more photos from the Wheatland competition over at SusanvilleStuff.

Click here to see them all.

“A reliable, abundant and diverse supply of native seeds is foundational to ensuring that the ecosystems we all cherish can thrive for current and future generations,” said Secretary Deb Haaland.

“The new initiative we are launching today, supported by historic resources from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, will help ensure we get the right seeds, in the right place, at the right time to restore our public lands and bolster climate resilience.”

Native plant communities across the U.S. are being lost every day from habitat loss and other climate related impacts, such as longer wildfire seasons and other extreme weather events. As these plant populations are lost, so too are the ecosystem services they provide, increasing the risk of erosion, the establishment of non-native and invasive species, and additional ecological damage.

Collecting, producing and procuring native seeds is critical for restoring native vegetation on public lands, and special facilities are required to store seeds and safeguard their genetic diversity.

The funding and newly launched National Seed Strategy Keystone Initiative will formalize the Department’s ambitious goals to invest in the infrastructure, tools, research and labor needed for a robust native seed supply chain, including by expanding Tribal greenhouse facilities, assisting local farmers in transitioning from high-water crops to low-water native plant crops, connecting with underserved communities in native seed collection via the Seeds of Success program, and increasing regional seed production capacity.

“Nature has spent thousands of years designing plants that fit in place, so we can’t do better than to use that instruction – native seed – in our restoration efforts,” said BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning. “Native seeds stand a better chance of long-term success.”

The BLM is stewarding an overall $2 billion over five years in new investments to put people to work restoring our nation’s lands and waters. This includes nearly $45 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, Inflation Reduction Act and annual appropriations already disbursed to support the expansion of the native seed supply chain, including through more seed collection teams and seed cleaning partnerships.

That funding is helping advance projects that are restoring white bark pine trees, which define some of the most treasured high-elevation western landscapes; converting 500 acres of degraded rangelands in Colorado to short grass prairie and sage shrubland; and working with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe in Montana to upgrade and expand the Tribe’s greenhouse facilities to improve its ability to grow native seedlings for regional restoration efforts.

To guide these historic investments, in April 2023, the Department unveiled the Restoration and Resilience Framework to catalyze coordination and drive transformational outcomes across our existing programs and initiatives, including through a commitment to nine keystone conservation initiatives which address climate change impacts, restore healthy lands and waters and enhance communities’ quality of life.

The National Seed Strategy Keystone Initiative builds on the past 25 years of native seed collection, research and development, including a recent partnership among the BLM, National Park Service, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to coordinate on Seeds of Success collections.

This is the next step in building a restoration economy in rural communities across the United States, while safeguarding biological diversity.

Lassen County’s hospital in 1935 from an Eastman Studios postcard

Lassen Arranges Housing for County Hospital Patients

February 9, 1935

County hospital patients will be housed in the hospital annex and cottages on county property, it was decided at a meeting of the Lassen County Board of Supervisors Wednesday.

Pending a report of insurance adjusters called to Susanville after fire had destroyed the hospital, the county will care for its own instead of leasing a dormitory from the Fruit Growers Supply Company.

The board also discussed the problem of indigents passing through Westwood, forming a problem to that community, and took steps to have work on the sidewalks along Main Street in Milwood resumed. Work was halted by the SERA Tuesday because of a dispute over who should pay for the materials.

The sidewalk project is designed to safeguard children attending the Lincoln school, who are forced to walk on the highway en route to classrooms.