Volume XVI Issue 137

Tuesday, February 13th, 2024

Congratulations to Taylor Moore: Our Date Night Giveaway Winner

Taylor won this awesome package of prizes from our fantastic contest sponsors.

• A pair of tickets to the 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

Susanville FFA’ers at Chico State February 10th

Susanville FFA Announces State Degrees and Chico Field Day Results

On Saturday, Susanville’s Future Farmers of America team traveled down the hill to participate in Chico State and Butte College’s FFA Field Day, facing more than 1,500 FFA competitors from around the north state.

1st high Veterinary Science Team with Isabell Moore placing 1st high individual, Lily Ammon placing 2nd high individual and Yunuen Figueroa placing 4th high individual out of 110 students.

Agriculture Mechanics placed 1st high team with Cole Baldwin placing 2nd and Danny Davidson placing 3rd high individual out of 56 individuals.

Vegetable Crop placed 4th high team, out of 11; BIG placed 9th high team, out of 30 teams and Livestock placed 18th high team, out of 48 teams.

The next contest for the chapter is the first week of March in Gridley.

State FFA Degree

Twenty four Lassen High FFA students have been approved to receive their State FFA degree, the highest degree in the California FFA Association.

This degree demonstrates that the student has put an exceptional amount of time into their Supervised Agriculture Experience, developed their Leadership skills, and provided service to their Community.

“You are in a select group of hard working kids who excelled on your SAE and FFA involvement and Susanville FFA is proud of you,” said Advisor Elizabeth Ammon.

“Only 4% of FFA kids in the state ever receive their state degree. There are 95,000 members in the state.”

Here are the Lassen Future Farmers receiving their degrees:

Lily Ammon

Andi Anderson

Madison Arthurs

Tucker Bailey

Cole Baldwin

Meghan Barry

Deven Cunningham

Danny Davidson

Reegan Dunten

Breanna Fox

Thomas Gates

Jamie Hall

Maddi Johnson

Connor Kirack

Teagan Knight

Abel LeCates

Seth Mallery

Lillian Marshall

Lindalba Navarro Moraga

Alexander Shaw

Ethan Shmuelavich

Rory Van Deventer

Abby Vincent

Cameron Wattenburg

There are two qualifying contests and then the finals, all with prize money. Three local monetary prize winners will be chosen.

The winner will be announced on April 30th, at the Rotary District Conference.

Grizzly Claybreakers Looking for 2024 Student Sponsorships

By Jenny Robinson and Erika Giusti

The Lassen Grizzly Claybreakers are actively canvassing the community and surrounding areas for people and businesses who would be interested in sponsoring students for the 2024 season.

Sponsorship can start with as little as $25 (Bronze sponsorship) and continue up to $500 and beyond (Platinum sponsorship). Each donor will receive a Lassen Grizzly Claybreakers decal to proudly display and show their support of the team.

The primary purpose for this fundraiser is to provide ammunition for the student and a portion goes toward club expenses, such as catering the awards banquet and other meetings and get-togethers, buckles, trophies, award gift certificates, etc.

These students are hard working individuals, who are learning such a valuable lesson (gun safety), sportsmanship and competition on both a team and individual basis.

Any amount of sponsorship helps!

Our first of six series competitions begins March 9th, then on to our two-day State Finals in June and we will be wrapping up the season in mid July at the two-day Nationals in Las Vegas.

Our students shoot approximately 100 rounds per week in practice, and each competition is 100 rounds per day. (4 boxes of shells) Ammunition is our biggest expense!

Lassen County and our surrounding communities have shown us a tremendous amount of support over the past eight years, and we look forward to continue to make Lassen County proud with our achievements.

We appreciate your continued assistance in helping these young individuals continue to thrive in this amazing sport!

If you are interested in sponsoring, please contact Phil or Erika Giusti at 530-254-6623.

These reports and documents are also available at the City’s website.

The St. Francis Hotel, Main and Union Streets, in the late 1940’s. From an Eastman Studios postcard.

Hotel is Sold at Susanville

February 13, 1944

The St. Francis Hotel on Main Street became the property of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Evans Monday, as the result of a sale by the Neuhause estate.

Acting for the estate were Mrs. Florence Talbot and H. L. McMurphy through Attorney J. A. Pardee. The property was bought by Evans for $50,000.

The new owner has been a contract logger in Lassen County for a number of years.

Improvements will include new manager quarters, refurbishing the restaurant, and reupholstering and redecorating of the lobby.