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lOB Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2011 Bulletin, Progressive, Record, Reporter
E D I T O RI AL aND
OPINI ON
EDITORIAL
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We were heartened to find some good news
amid the headlines last week: childhood obesity
rates in California are leveling off. From a high in
2005 of 38.5 percent, the rate has flattened to 38
percent. That's still unacceptably high. But it does
at least reverse a 30-year trend and end an alarm-
ing spike in numbers from 2001 to 2005.
Better, yet, the rate for Plumas County is 10
points lower than the state average. From a high
of 31 percent in 2005, our rate has dropped to 27.8
percent. (Thirty-one counties saw an increase in
their obesity rates.) In fact, we had one of the
largest drops in the state, after Sierra (minus 13.8
percent) and Trinity (minus 29 percent) counties.
Only five counties have a lower rate. Although it
saw an increase of 5.5 percent since 2005, Marin
County, at 24.9 percent, still has the lowest rate.
The numbers come from a report, "Patchwork
of Progress," released last week by the California
Center for Public Health Advocacy and the UCLA
Center for Health Policy Research. Researchers
used height and weight data from the California
Physical Fitness Test, given annually in grades
five. seven and nine, to calculate body mass index
(BMI). For children, overweight is defined as hav-
ing a BMI between the 85th and 95th percentile on
the 2000 Centers for Disease Control anct Preven-
tion sex-specific, age-specific charts, while obesity
is defmed as having a BMI above the 95th per-
centile. (To calculate your child's or teen's BMI
or your own visit cdc.gov. Scroll down and click
BMI Calculator under More Multimedia & Tools.)
The implications of childhood obesity are im-
mense. Obese young people have an 80 percent
chance of becoming obese adults and, as a result,
are more at risk for chronic health problems such
as heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea,
stroke, several types of cancer and osteoarthritis.
California rafiks first among all states in ~h6""
amount it spendg 6fi the health consequences of
obesity: $21 billion annually.
The flattening child obesity rate suggests that
public policy initiatives, like new nutrition stan-
dards for school lunches and a ban on selling sug-
ar-laden sodas at schools, are starting to have an
impact.
While our demographic makeup here in Plumas
is one reason our child obesity rates are lower
than most of the rest of the state Hispanics and
African-Americans have the highest obesity rates
we think there's much more to the equation.
Our communities are walkable and bikeable, and
we have the public safety to let our kids walk and
bike around town. We're surrounded by forest-
lands where kids can get out and explore. Our
schools, along with a number of community
groups, provide outdoor education that gets chil-
dren outdoors and engaged with the natural
world. Despite tight budgets, our recreation dis-
tricts offer sports leagues and other activities.
Parents and boosters help maintain sports pro-
grams in our schools.
Theseassets are the result, in most cases, of col-
laboration among entities: for example, the Cen-
tral Plumas Recreation and Park District works
with both Feather River College and Plumas Uni-
fied School District to share facilities to offer pro-
grams for our kids. These relationships are as im-
portant as the infrastructure itself.
If we want to see our child obesity rate drop
even farther--and it should, since nearly three in
10 Plumas children are still overweight or obese
-- these partners will have to redouble their ef-
forts at collaboration. Continuing cooperation and
sharing resources will be key as budgets are likely
to keep shrinking. But the health of our children
is worth it.
Fea ng
wspaper
Breaking News ....
go to plumasnews.corn
Michael C. Taborski ............. Publisher
Keri B. Taborski ...Legal Advertising Dept.
Delaine Fragnoli ........ Managing Editor
Alicia Knadler ........ Indian Valley Editor
M. Kate West ............. Chester Editor
Shannon Morrow .......... Sports Editor
Ingrid Burke ................ Copy Editor
Staff writers:
Michael Condon Diana dorgenson
Ruth Ellis Dan McDonald
Will Farris Brian Taylor
Barbara France Kayleen Taylor
Mona Hill Trish Welsh.Taylor
Susan Cort Johnson Sam Williams
But when the governor realized $25 from been selected.
owners of each of the approximately 800,000 Don't get me wrong. From what I have
• structures affected wasn't going to generate seen, the former EQSD general manager
the $50 million he wanted, he changed the knows her stuff. Henrici does own a home
game. Literally. in East Quincy and is still a registered vot-
Last month he appointed four new De- er here. So, legally, she had every right to
~.~. mocrats to the state s nine-member fire serve on the board.
.~i board. However, she no longer lives here..She
MY TURN Last week Brown's hand-picked board works as the general manager for the Rio
thanked him by approving the higher $150 Linda/Elverta Community Water District.
DAN McDONALD fee. That might not be a conflict of interest.
Staff Writer Most of uS will get a $35 discount for liv- But it's certainly a conflict of commitment.
dmcdonald@plumasnews.com ingin a fire district. But that still leaves an
What's the difference between a tax extra $115 added to our property tax bills.
Movie night
and a fee? Our assemblyman, Dan Logue, has as- My wife and I made our first visit to the
It's semantics as far as I'm concerned, sured me the fee will never happen. He said
Town Hall Theatre in Quincy a couple
Both Of them cost us money, it's a tax disguised to look like a fee. He weeks ago.
However there is a big difference in the said the "tax" is illegal and• will end up in Movie night was an almost weekly tradi-
two words when it comes to state govern- court, tion when Shelley and I lived in the city.
merit: A tax has to meet vOter approval. But So it looks like a judge might ultimately And we had several mega-screen theaters
the governor can drop a fee on us with just decide if we are, going to get "burned." within a few miles.
the support of a few his friends. But the theater in Quincy... Wow. What
And that's exactly what Jerry Brown is Voters got it right a gem.
doing with his latest version of the rural Kudos to the voters in East Quincy for Walking through the front door was like
fire fee. picking Ernie Eaton, Greg Margason and stepping back into my childhood.
Rural homeowners, like many of us in Michael Green to serve on the East Quincy Old movie theaters like theTown Hall
Plumas County, are being slapped with a Service District board of directors, are a national treasure.
$150 fee for fire prevention. In my short time attending the EQSD Shelley laughed at me after I walked up
The first time he tried to do this last board meetings, those three stood out in to the ticket booth and said, "Two for 'Mon-
spring, the Board of Forestry and Fire Pro- the field 0f five'candidates, eyball' please."
tection stepped in and whittled Brown's All three seem like very independent "Why did you say that?" she whispered
$150 proposed fee down to about 25 bucks, thinkers. Their ideas will provide a lot of as we were getting our popcorn.
Twenty-five dollars for fire prevention is diversity on the board. "What are you talking about?"
still too much. Most of us already pay our I was prepared to write a "What were you "There's only one movie."
local fire districts to do that job. thinking?" column if Mary Henrici had Force of habit, I guess.
Where in the World?
Nina and Dave Stone, of
Graeagle, visit Prague in
the Czech Republic and
take a boat ride on the
Vltava River. The Charles
Bridge is in the back-
ground. Next time you
travel, share where you
went by taking your local
newspaper along and
including it in a photo.
Then email,thephoto
to smocrow@plumas v
news.com. Include your
name, contact information
and brief details about
your photo. We may
publish it as space
permits.
REMEMBER WHEN
KERI TABORSKI
Historian
75 YEARS AGO .......... 1936
Move them out! S.F. Brown of Crescent
Mills in Indian Valley started out for his
winter range near Chico with 650 head of
cattle. There were seven riders with the
herd accompanied by a truck carrying pro-
visions and bedrolls for the week on the
trail.
50 YEARS AGO .......... 1961
Advertisement; Plan Thanksgiving din-
ner at Hotel Quincy featuring fruit cup,
creamed soup with choice of turkey or
baked ham with.creamed onions, baked
squash and yams followed by pies with
brandy sauce. $3.00 adults/$1.50 children.
25 YEARS AGO .......... 1986
After 39 years, 4 months, and 15 days
with Bank of America. Ted Hoskins of
Quincy is retiring. He has been manager of
the Quincy branch of Bank of America for
the last 15 years. The new manager is Tom
Garayoa, a Susanville native.
10 YEARS AGO .......... 2001
Terry Bergstrand, who has served as
Plumas County Undersheriff for three
years under Plumas County Sheriff Len
Gardner, will challenge his boss for the
seat of county sheriff in the March elec-
tion. Greg Hagwood, former investigator,
has also taken out election papers for the
seat.
After a statewide search the Plumas
County Board of Supervisors have appoint-
ed John Sebold as the county's new health
director. He has been the acting director
since John Crawford's resignation last
year. He will recieve a salary of $5,408
monthly.
Note." items included in the weekly Remember
When column are taken from our bound newspa-
per archives and represent writing styles of that
particular period. The spelling and grammar are
not edited, so the copy is presented as it actually
appeared in the original newspaper.
Desperately seeking sleep solutions
MY TURN
ALICIA KNADLER
ndian Valley Editor
aknadler@plumasnews.com
Whatever happened to that extra hour
of sleep I look forward to every fall?
I missed it somehow, and I really need-
ed it. It seems I'm not the only one, either.
I know so many people with problems
sleeping that I began to think it was an
epidemic.
So, sleepless as usual, I began snooping
around on the Internet for solutions.
I was right; it is an epidemic, according
to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
Maybe I shouldn't have been doing
some late-night snooping, though, for in
the lead of their article, round-the-clock
access to technology is blamed.
Is it from too much late-night chatting
on facebook? One of my sleepless friends
is taking a one-week vacation. Maybe it
will help. an effective way of preventing many of
Another of my sleepless friends likes to the more than 56,000 crashes each year
drink adult beverages in the evenings, that are caused by drowsy drivers, ac-
which is another cause of sleeplessness, cording to a nationwide study at nht-
according to the study, sa.gov.
I don't think she wants to try absten- I agree, definitely. Love those rumble
tion. strips. I even like our snowplow-proof re-
I'm nQt sure I want to stop mylate-night flector pockets up here -- they are almost
snooping, either, as good.
Drowsy driving is one of the scariest Conservatively, law enforcement offi-
sleep-related unhealthy behaviors listed cers across the nation report these crash-
in the study, which is the first time the es result in about 1,500 deaths and 40,000
center's scientists have included that da- nonfatal injuries each year.
ta. The worst times for these crashes are at
About 3,500 of the 75,000 people inter- night and in the mid afternoon. People
viewed reported drowsy driving, and who work odd shifts are especially gus,
more than 28,000 reported unintentionally ceptible, since regular sleep patterns are
falling asleep during the day in a one- disrupted.
month period. Okay, so there's another clue: disrupted
I wish I could fall asleep during the day, sleep. I've got that, big time. Try sleeping
unintentionally or otherwise. Maybe I surrounded by snores: dog snores, hus-
would forgo some late-night snooping in band snores, maybe even my own snores.
exchange for a nap. Recently added to the symphony are
The most surprising thing about the puppy cries. We're in day two of potty
drowsy driving part of the study was that training, and I sure hope these little rug
young people ages 16 - 29 were among the rats learn quick.
highest at risk, especially males. I always It's just so hard taking advantage of
figured it was age related, but not on the quiet times, the warm sun shining
young side of the scale, through the window, and the stillness
Not surprising: sleep is the best cure for that comes when all the dogs are taking
Sleepiness. Duh! their midday naps.
From the department of transportation I would sure like to join them. Maybe
perspective, shoulder rumble strips are after I check• my inbox.
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