I think not. I am a Newbie. I've made an investment in blogging and reading and doing the profile and so on and so on. I have been working at getting a clue about exactly what Active Rain is and what it can mean to me and my business. Please correct me if I am wrong.....the points get you to the top of the ranking system in your local area....right?
That can be good and may bring your referrals? Correct? There are some good ways to do this and some not so good ways to do this. Correct?
So THAT is rather all I can come up with on the points issue. What I really find to be the value is the information sharing and knowledge sharing that can help at every level and I think on every subject. Correct?
For me....the value comes at many levels.....tech level....I would like to know how to insert photos with the text wrapping and how to correctly insert links in my blogs to provide credit and reference other bloggers.....all good and neat....but not really where the value is.
The REAL VALUE for me comes in the LEARNING. That's what Active Rain is. It is a self-organizing learning system for all users. Rather amazing I think. I am caught up with something unexpected and that I did not even know existed. I am thinking about Active Rain as I put the rollers in my hair in order to get ready to go to the office. I am thinking about Active Rain when I go to bed at night and it takes me an hour to fall asleep.
I don't think I've been this excited about anything since.....I got my first bike at Christmas when I was 6. This is BIG!
Thanks for letting me share my excitement! It really is extraordinary.
Jeanean Gendron
Photo....just an interesting photo.
Upcoming Events
Viva highlights exciting events that draw attention and people to downtown Redding. Visit our Calendar page for listings of other Viva supported events.
Redding Beer & Wine Festival
Date: Sat, Sep 15 - 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Location: On Market Street in Downtown Redding - 1700 Block - In front of the historic Cascade Theatre
Tickets $30 before the event - $35 at the door
Advance tickets available at Raleys Supermarkets
In Redding and Red Bluff
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Viva Downtown Redding
A Main Street Organization is a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the cultural, social, and economic development of downtown Redding. Our focus is bringing life into the heart of Redding through innovative projects, programs, and partnerships.
Viva Downtown Redding would like to encourage all who believe in Redding and want to make a positive contribution to join us.
Downtown Spotlight
Downtown Spotlight is the tri-annual publication of Viva Downtown Redding. It includes articles on issues pertinent to downtown revitalization and promotes downtown events and businesses.
Summer 2007 Downtown Spotlight (PDF: 864kb)
For information on advertising opportunities, contact viva@vivadowntown.org.
The Shasta Blues Society is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of American "Blues" music.
As a 501 (c) (3) volunteer organization we are dedicated to the enhancement and promulgation of the Blues as an American cultural art form.
The SBS supports Blues in Schools by sponsoring the "Sacto" Mickey Traina Memorial Blues Scholarship.
Sept. 13th & 14th, 7pm -11pm
Pre-blues extravaganza at LuLu's
Thursday & Friday evening, 7pm to 11pm
Featuring three bands each night
No Charge
Sept. 15th, 16th Annual
Blues by the River Festival
Tickets on Sale at Herried Music, 2148 Market St, 243-7283
Bernie's Guitar, 3086 Bechelli Lane, 223-2040
LuLu's, 2230 Pine St, 243-6251 in Redding, CA
Pre-sale members $10 At The Gate $15
Non-Members $15 At The Gate $20
Gates open at 11am
11:20 Opening the festival is the Redding Riverside Barbershop Chorus singing our National Anthem and a tribute to the armed forces
11:30 Heavy Dose Of Blues
12:25 Thom Berry & Jim Kristensen
1:20 Shane Dwight
2:40 Mick Martin & The Blues Rockers W/special
guests Shane Tiller & Kyle Rowland
4:15 Dallas Hodge
5:50 Ellen Whyte
After Festival Jam at LuLu's starting at 9pm
No audio or visual equipment allowed (please respect the
artists' wishes that no recording equipment be brought into the festival).
ABSOLUTELY NO ice chests, glass, cans, bottles
or alcohol allowed inside the festival grounds.
Beverages and food available from guest vendors.
Don't forget low back lawn chairs, sand chairs and blankets.
No pets allowed except seeing eye dogs.
Please have a valid ID ready (for 21 and over) if planning to consume adult beverages
http://www.shastablues.com/
Well, what can I say.
About a week ago, I joined Active Rain and 48 hours ago I posted my first blog. I thought I would be illuminating the real estate industry with my wisdon.
WOW.....48 hours later.....the novice bows to the power of change and Active Rain. I am a changed person and so excited about what is happening in this forum. I am addicted and excited to see such a wealth of knowledge, sharing and celebration on every level.
I now look back on my first blog and feel as though I have gone from kindergarten to graduating from kindergarten with the realization that I want to be on the "fast track" with these folks.
Amazing blogs.....I love every minute of it. Help in every conceivable subject and perspective. I will have to endeavor to rise to the high level of this forum.
Jeanean Gendron
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Our company's commitment to Premier Service has earned us the 2007 Quie Award.
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I work with a great organization and a great group of people who are so totally dedicated in delivering the highest standards in excellent service.
I am so proud to be a part of this organization and a part of the team!
Jeanean Gendron
530 276-7417
www.jrgendron.com
Peter DaSilva for the New York Times
Biking in the 300-acre Turtle Bay Exploration Park.
By JENNIFER MARGULIS
Published: July 7, 2006
LAYING claim to being the second-sunniest city in the United States (only Yuma, Ariz., is sunnier), Redding, Calif., is hot, friendly and busy. Two hours north of Sacramento, Redding was once considered just another Podunk, notable for its highway sprawl and a sea of outlet malls. But in the last seven years the city, which has 87,000 residents, has remade itself and is becoming a destination. Redding is now home to an ultramodern $23 million bridge designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava - the Sundial, which spans the Sacramento River - and offers a 300-acre natural history park. There are also walking, cycling and hiking trails with stunning views that rival better-known spots in Northern California.
Friday
3:30 p.m.
1) Don't Fight City Hall
No matter where you start your journey, try to arrive before the close of business on Friday so you can take in what can best be described as a free art museum in the new City Hall (777 Cypress Avenue, 530-225-4512). Thanks to the recently retired city manager, Mike Warren, who started Redding's "Art in Public Places" initiative, City Hall lines some hallway walls on all three floors with pieces by local artists and from traveling exhibitions. Included in the "American Spirit" exhibition currently on display are works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. But most surprising is a striking 1939 black-and-white photograph of three boys at a fair taken by Eudora Welty, who was a photographer before gaining fame as a writer.
5 p.m.
2) Of Time and the River
You have to visit the Sundial Bridge, which has put Redding on the architectural tourist map since it opened in 2004. Designed by Santiago Calatrava, the bridge crosses the Sacramento River and is also a working sundial. It is covered by some 1.3 million pieces of broken Spanish tile. With parents pushing strollers, couples walking hand in hand and tourists snapping photographs, this pedestrian and bicycle bridge has created a sort of town square in Redding - a place where people meet, visit, walk and enjoy the river and the views of the Cascade Mountains to the north and the Trinity Mountains to the west.
7 p.m.
3) French Connections
You're likely to rub shoulders with the most fashionable locals at the city's newest and nicest restaurant, the Maritime Seafood & Grill (1600 California Street, 530-229-0700). The white walls, white tablecloths and white-clad waiters are reminiscent of Spain, but the food is French-style California cuisine. The specialties of the Korean-born and San Francisco-trained owner and chef, Morgan Song, include an asparagus appetizer ($8.50) and a Muscovy duck pâté served on crusty herbed bread ($7.50). The orange roughy on cream of spinach with an accent of butternut squash piled with wasabi caviar ($20.50) wasn't local (it arrived that morning from Australia) but was still deliciously fresh. The chocolate fondant cake ($7.50) served with enormous antennae of edible sugar, like from some sweet alien life form, may lure you back to Redding sooner than you plan.
10 p.m.
4) Local Beer, Local Music
After dinner walk down to Billy Bombay's (1730 California Street, 530-244-3089) to mingle with a mixed and not-too-crazy mostly older crowd. "We get everyone from 21 to 91 in here," said the owner, Leonard Crump. Try a Lost Coast beer, brewed in Eureka, just three hours away; Lost Coast's citrusy Great White is the bouncer's favorite. Catch some live music by local and regional acts. If you're feeling feistier (or lucky), drive six miles south on Route 273 to the Win-River Casino (2100 Redding Rancheria Road, 530-243-3377) to play the slots or whoop it up at the martini bar that opens onto the casino.
Saturday
8 a.m.
5) Call of the Wild
Fuel up on a huge breakfast at Country Kitchen (1099 Hilltop Drive, 530-223-5438) before heading to Redding Sports Ltd. (950 Hilltop Drive, 530-221-7333) to rent mountain bikes ($8 an hour, $25 for 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., $35 for 24 hours; make sure to ask for a helmet). An access point to the Sacramento Trail system is right up the street, and the 12-mile loop will take you past a fish hatchery, Caldwell Park and the rushing river. Don't be surprised if you see a skinny-dipper in the Sacramento, or startle a deer on the trail - or vice versa.
1 p.m.
6) Logging On
Grab a garden sandwich ($7.50) or a Conductor's Special - roast beef, Ortega chilies and jack cheese on grilled sourdough ($8.25) - at Deja Vu (1590 California Street, 530-244-4272). Then head to the 300-acre Turtle Bay Exploration Park, which surrounds the Sundial Bridge (840 Auditorium Drive, 800-887-8532; www.turtlebay.org); admission is $11, and $6 for children age 4 to 15; $9 for those 65 and older. Pick up a map at the visitor center and wander dirt walkways that lead to an extensive museum of natural history (with exhibits on topics like climate change and logging), an exhibition on birds of prey, a Paul Bunyan forest camp aimed at children and a butterfly house. There is also a mile-and-a-half self-guided walking tour around the McConnell Arboretum and Gardens.
4:30 p.m.
7) Tin Ceiling, Red Meat
If you don't get to Jack's Grill (1743 California Street, 530-241-9705) by 4:30, half an hour before the kitchen opens, plan to wait at least an hour before you sit down. As much a phenomenon as a grill, this hole-in-the-wall restaurant still has its original tin ceiling from 1938, a 1944 cash register, iceberg lettuce salads with green beans drowned in dressing and a kitchen too small to serve dessert. But Reddingites flock there because Jack's serves the best steaks in town ($10.55 to $26.95).
7 p.m.
8) Depression Class
A newspaper article described the Cascade Theater (1731 Market Street, 530-243-8877; www.cascadetheatre.org) as a "temple of amusement and culture" when it opened in 1935. Renovated to a pretty close approximation of its original look in a project that involved scraping 10 coats of paint off the walls, the Cascade seats 1,000 and has archways of Aztec-inspired Art Deco gold, silver and copper-colored inlay, and a host of bare-chested Greek goddesses in an elaborate fertility motif on the ceiling. It offers an eclectic range of cultural events, including ballet, plays, live music by the likes of the Indigo Girls and Ricky Skaggs and older movies like "American Graffiti" and "Chocolat." And after the show, the Sundial Bridge once again beckons - this time, for a romantic moonlight stroll.
Sunday
8 a.m.
9) A Mocha, Then Spelunking
You could while away your morning by lounging on big comfy pink, purple and green sofas, checking your e-mail messages and playing Connect Four and Boggle at Yaks Koffee Shop (3274 Bechelli Lane, 530-223-9999). Instead, order a butterscotch latte (blended with hunks of real butterscotch) and a maple nut scone to go and drive 16 miles north on Interstate 5 to Exit 695 to visit the Lake Shasta Caverns (800-795-2283, www.lakeshastacaverns.com. The two-hour tour costs $20, $12 for ages 3 to 11; 65 and older $17) and includes a ride across the big artificial Lake Shasta on a diesel-powered catamaran, a bus ride up a vertiginous hill and a guided tour of the dripping stalactites and thrusting stalagmites inside the limestone caves.
The Basics
Redding has a small airport - Redding Municipal Airport - served by Horizon Air and United Express with direct flights daily from LAX in Los Angeles. The city is about a three-and-a-half-hour drive north from San Francisco. The Redding Convention and Visitors Bureau (800-874-7562; www.visitredding.org) publishes a brochure with more than 35 listings of places to stay.
If you like chain hotels, you'll find them by the dozen, many in sight of Interstate 5 or on Hilltop Drive.
Tiffany House (1510 Barbara Road, 530-244-3225; www.tiffanyhousebb.com) is a Victorian-style bed-and-breakfast in a residential neighborhood that is close to everything. Run by a couple who showcase their family heirlooms - including century-old needlepoint - in their home, it has four rooms for $110 to $150 a night (the most expensive is a stand-alone cottage with a whirlpool tub).
If you're allergic to B&B's, the Grand Manor Inn and Suites (850 Mistletoe Lane, 530-221-4472; www.grandmanorinn.com) has spacious rooms, some with balconies (overlooking the parking lot). Its rooms are $91.25 to $110.05 a night.
For something more modestly priced, try the River Inn (1835 Park Marina Drive, 800-995-4341; www.reddingriverinn.net). Ask for a room in the new annex, which has balconies overlooking a pond. Its rooms are $64 to $100 a night.
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Beautiful Country! Come and See!
Peaceful and quiet. Diverse topography from alpine meadows to rolling oak studded hills. Ranchland, riverfront, lakefront properties. Redding is a beautiful philantropic city with the Sacramento River coursing through the city and three amazing mountain ranges, Trinity Alps, Lassen and Shasta surrounding this sweet place!
IT IS INSPIRING COUNTRY!
Lassen Mountain Range
World Famous Sundial Bridge
The Sacramento river gracefully snakes through Redding, Cottonwood and Red Bluff offering many waterfront homes and activities. The river is beautiful and offers some of the best fishing in the world.
Incredible Mount Shasta offers Redding and Shasta County residents unparalled views. Mount Shasta is often times where mountain climbers come to train for climbing Mount Everest.
Shasta Dam and Shasta Lake offer boatilng and recreational activities. It is a large and diverse water system allowing for boating activities and fun. Diversity is everywhere in our environment: elevation ranges to a couple hundred fee to 4000 feet east, water activites, hiking and fishing. We are knows as one of the great fly-fishing area in the nation and fishermen come from all over the country to fish our rivers.
This is our neighborhood. We love Redding and Shasta County, California. It is so open and spacious. We don't feel closed in and we feel safe. Moving to Redding, has been the best thing for us and we count our blessings each and every day. Housing is reasonable and there is no development constraints. We have three awesome mountain ranges to choose for hiking, rock hounding, fishing and camping. We are in a great community and a great place to live.
Visit my website at www.jrgendron.com for more information on Redding and Shasta County. We also help clients in Trinity County and Tehama County. Come see us soon!
Jeanean Gendron
530 276-7417
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