Briefs: Forum confronts child obesity
MARYSVILLE
Few haven't heard the numbers: Today's children are on pace to be significantly more overweight, if not obese, than any previous generation.
What's causing the trend, and what parents, child care providers and others can do about it, will be the topic of a workshop at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The workshop will feature Rose McIsaac, a guest speaker who is both a dietitian and a worker through Women, Infants and Children programs.
The workshop is free and is at the Child Care Planning Council of Yuba & Sutter Counties, 1104 E St., Marysville. To reserve a space, call 301-0623 or tcaeyc@gmail.com .
SUTTER COUNTY
Feedback sought on courthouse
A new courthouse for Sutter County won't break ground for a while, but a state agency is taking feedback about the project and how it will happen.
On Oct. 19 and 20, the state Court Facilities Working Group will meet in San Francisco to discuss Sutter County's new courthouse and 40 other projects statewide, acknowledging state budget cuts will affect the building program.
For the Sutter County courthouse, originally set to begin taking shape in 2013 next to the county jail, the cuts meant work won't start until 2014.
Comments may be sent to occmcomments@jud.ca.gov or Administrative Office of the Courts, ATTN: Comments to Court Facilities Working Group, 455 Golden Gate Ave. 8th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94102. Comments must be received by Oct. 18, though in-person comments will also be taken.
YUBA-SUTTER
Kids may applyto light D.C. tree
Children 5 to 17 years old in California are invited to submit an entry for a chance to participate in the 2011 U.S. Capitol tree lighting ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Entry forms and more information can be found at capitolchristmastree2011.org. The forms must be postmarked by Friday and mailed to Stanislaus National Forest, Attn: 2011 Capitol Christmas Tree Lighter Drawing, 19777 Greenley Road, Sonora, CA 95370.
One entry per person.
The winning child and accompanying parent or guardian will receive an all-expenses paid trip — paid for through private donations — to the event in early December.
The Stanislaus National Forest is supplying a 65-foot white fir tree to the nation's capitol as a gift from California.
Yuba City
Food drive set this month
Comfort Keepers of Yuba and Sutter counties is hosting a communitywide food drive this month as part of a national campaign to "STOP Senior Hunger."
Food collection bins have been placed at Umpqua Bank offices in Marysville and Wheatland and at Sutter Surgical Hospital at 455 Plumas St., in Yuba City.
The food will be donated to Yuba-Sutter Gleaners for distribution.
For more information on the campaign, contact Comfort Keepers at 749-8800.
Yuba County
Gleaners to distribute food
Free food distribution is scheduled by the Yuba-Sutter Gleaners Food Bank volunteers in the Yuba County foothills.
Set Oct. 20, the program's distribution sites include:
Brownsville — 8-10:30 a.m. at Friday Night Live, 8408 La Porte Road.
Loma Rica — 8:30-10 a.m. at the Lions clubhouse, 5697 Fruitland Road.
Dobbins — 8:30-10 a.m. at Lake Francis Grange, 10775 Texas Hill Road.
Call 673-3834 for more information. The U.S. Department of Agriculture program is open to low-income families.
Yuba City
Old photos on display
A program about preserving old photographic images, held in conjunction with the exhibit "Clara Sheldon Smith, Art Photographer"on display, is set at the Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County.
With photographic consultant Allan Lamb, the free program is at 7 p.m. Oct. 19 at 1333 Butte House Road, Yuba City.
He will talk about the glass plate negatives used by Clara Sheldon Smith, a photographer who worked in the Marysville-Yuba City area about 1900.
The exhibit of Smith's work includes studio portraits and scenes of the area.
For more information, call the museum at 822-7141.
Smartsville
Fundraiser for church project
An opportunity to see the progress on the historic Smartsville Church restoration is part of an open house and lunch planned Oct. 15 in the Yuba County foothills.
The fundraiser is 11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in Smartsville. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 years and under.
Lunch features barbecue tri-tip sandwich, catered by It'll-Do-BBQ restaurant.
Craftsmen working on the restoration will be available to answer questions.
The former Catholic church is being restored to benefit the community of Smartsville.
Tickets can be purchased online at http://smartsvillechurchopenhouse.charityhappenings.org; at the restaurant, located at the corner of Highway 20 and Mooney Flat Road; from members of the Smartsville Church Restoration Fund Inc. board; and "at the door."
For more information, call Kit Burton at kitburton@hotmail.com or 743-0413.
