Shade Satica with Mom and Dad in a picture I appropriated from her big sister Autry’s Facebook page

It’s an absolutely stunning accomplishment, not likely to happen again at Lassen for years to come. That’s just how good young Ms. Satica is.

This Saturday, Shade and the Lady Grizzlies will head down to the Northern Section Championship. Good luck girls!

Best of Broadway

Marshel and I saw the entire show from start to finish last Saturday on Media Night and it was awesome, as usual! Those kids know how to put on a show.

The performance was fun and I am always amazed at how many flat-out talented people we have in our little town. Young Frankenstein and High School Musical were two of my favorite shows.

We took a big gallery of pictures at the dress rehearsal and you can click here to see them all over at SusanvilleSnapshots.com.

Snow Snow Go Away

As I’m writing this it is snowing outside our office. Now, maybe it is because we haven’t had such a snowy winter in a while, maybe it is because this year winter started in October – whatever the reason, it seems like the season is going on forever.

Weatherman says another 4 to 6 inches on the ground today and more this weekend. sigh.

This reminds me a lot of the winter of 1986. I had Mr. Bosta for third period Algebra and for the first couple of months of the spring semester it would either rain or snow during his class every morning. I can remember staring out the classroom window day after day, bored silly, marveling at how the gray roof of the Boy’s Gym was the exact same color as the stormy sky.

If you couldn’t tell, I didn’t do very well in Algebra that year. Or the next.

The view out my office window as I write this. Come on Spring!

Two Decades? Really? Wow

This year SusanvilleStuff.com will turn twenty years old. Isn’t that amazing? We fired up the website in September of 2003 and it has sure been a quick twenty years. It honestly seems like just yesterday that we started, but, it recently occurred to me that there are Susanville kids old enough to be in college that have never known a time without a SusanvilleStuff. Weird.

I can remember when we constantly had to explain what we did, and nobody back then thought the internet would overtake all other media so quickly.

To give you some chrono-perspective, SusanvilleStuff began operation the same month as MySpace. Remember MySpace?

We have a ton of special promotions and contests and memories and old stuff to share with you over the next few months as we celebrate the birthday.

I mention this because I have been spending some time going back through our photo archives from the last twenty years pulling out fun and forgotten stuff. Along the way I discovered photos from events I had completely forgotten about!

Do you remember Hot Air Balloon Races? How about Civil War Days? It was actually kind of worrying about just how many things I found that I had photographed but completely forgotten about.

According to my Lightroom Catalog I have a collection of 237,251 photos of Susanville, its people and events from the last twenty years and I can’t wait to open up the archives and bring back some memories with you guys over the next eight months.

Have a wonderful weekend everybody! Stay warm and safe and don’t worry, spring is just around the corner!

Civil War Days in Ranch Park, 2005. Hey look it’s Lassen County Supervisor Chris Gallagher!

LHS Partners with Lassen Federal Credit

Union to Teach ‘Financial Bite of Reality’

Tuesday morning, as part of a national program coordinated by the Richard Myles Johnson Foundation and credit unions across the country, the nice folks from the Lassen County Federal Credit Union taught Lassen High’s eighty Personal Finance students about the ‘Bite of Reality.’

The Bite of Reality uses a ‘hands-on app based simulation that appeals to teens while giving them a taste of real-world financial realities.’

Students are given a fictional occupation, salary, credit score, spouse and a child, student loan debt, credit card debt, and medical insurance payments. They then walk around to various table-top stations to “purchase” housing, transportation, food, clothing and other needs.

Fortunately, the game also includes a ‘credit union’ to help with their financial needs.

​This interactive activity is designed to teach teens how to make financial decisions and give them a better understanding of the challenges of living on a budget.

The program is presented at no cost and is a great hands-on simulation for the students.

You can become a leader in your school and community while having fun and making new friends from around the world.

Interact clubs organize at least two projects every year, one that helps their school or community and one that promotes international understanding. Rotary club sponsors mentor and guide Interactors as they carry out projects and develop leadership skills.

Monday evening’s meeting will be held at 5:30 in the Breakfast Room at Comfort Inn and Suites, 3015 Riverside Drive. Pizza and drinks will be provided for in-person participants.

You can also join the meeting on Zoom. The meeting ID is 768 5584 4223 and the Passcode is PK8UiP. Click here for a link to the Zoom meeting location.

Click here to see more than 150 photos from the Best of Broadway dress rehearsal in our SusanvilleSnapshots gallery!

For more information call 530-310-4302 or visit Best of Broadway online.

Would You Like to Win Tickets? Of course you would!

Click here and head on over to SusanvilleStuff enter to win a pair of tickets to one of this year’s Susanville Best of Broadway performances. We have one pair for the each Saturday matinee, so let us know in the form which tickets you want to win.

You can enter once per day, per email, and the deadline to enter is March 2nd at midnight. We will announce the winners right here on Friday, March 3rd. Good luck!

“This season, starting in September 2022, we started a beginning musician class taught by Kayla Millar, also a high school teach and LUHS. Those in the program are learning to read music and started practicing on flutophones.”

“The students were also shown various brass, wind and string instruments and were able to choose the instrument they wanted to learn. The first term culminated at our concert in December. During the second term, those students are practicing their chosen instrument, Beginning musicians meet on a weekly basis for an hour.”

The Academy continues to offer String Ensemble and Wind Ensemble two Mondays a month and Concert Strings and Concert Band the other two Mondays per month under the direction of Craig Harris, who also is the music teacher at Richmond Elementary School.

“This is an exciting year for these bands and ensembles as we continue to see interest not only from students but from adult mentors who wish to become more proficient with their own instruments.”

Tickets for the dinner, which begins at 6:00 in the church at 1825 Spring Ridge Drive, are $30 and may be purchased at Margie’s Book Nook or by calling Nancy at 1.541.301.0813.

Snowy uptown in the late 1920’s

Snow Drifts Interfere with Travel in Lassen

February 24, 1923

A strong wind began blowing here Sunday evening and continued throughout the night and all day Monday, with the result that the snow was so badly drifted that travel was held up.

The Reno-Susanville stages failed to get through, the Doyle stage failed to make its regular daily trip and the high school student from the Standish section did not get to school Monday because of the deep snowdrifts and the hard wind which prevailed all day.

Train service was delayed several hours, the Susanville-Fernley train arriving is Susanville nearly five hours late.

Tuesday two stages bound for Reno left here with a crew of men and equipment to open up the drifts and break the road through to Reno. The snow is thawing fast.