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O R O P C H A T

October 2016

Soroptimist International of Downtown Redding

Charter Date: June 30, 2000

Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.

2016 – 2017 Officers

President: Cathi Lathrop-Cummings

President Elect: Leslie Woodson

Vice President: Gayle Batti

Secretary: Laura Nuckols

Treasurer: Cheryl Hull

Treasurer Elect: Cheryl Whitmer

Director: Robin Glasco

Delegates: Kate O’Rorke and

Deb Screechfield

Happy Birthday!

1st ~

Cheryl Whitmer

18th ~

Robin Glasco

Me

Member Anniversary

Cheryl Hull ~ 2007

Katie O’Rorke ~ 2015

Joline Robertson ~ 2015

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to

myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

Henry David Thoreau

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Affairs of the Vine

Our 9th annual event was a great success

bringing in $2,888.00. Thanks to the Ways &

Means Committee there was smooth sailing on

a warm summer day. All the committees

brought wonderful raffle baskets as well as

individual contributions and other members

served and walked the walk of models for the

Fashion Show made possible by the Dandelion

shop, set up and cleaned up. What a team!

District 1 Meeting

October 1st in Yreka Cathi Lathrop-Cummings

and Robin Glasco plan to attend.

Soroptimist International

of Redding

The19th Annual Breast Cancer Awareness

Luncheon will be on

Friday, October 7, 2016

at the Holiday Inn Redding

1900 Hilltop Drive

doors open at 11:00 am.

Membership Mixer

5:30 on Wednesday October 19th. Hostess

Linda Lingo at 2596 Castlewood Drive in

Redding. Members with last names starting

with A-L bring appetizer, M-R bring dessert and

S-Z bring drinks. More info. to follow.

FACES OF

SHASTA COUNTY

October 9th ~ 2p.m. matinee at the Cascade Theater

Tickets $25

Riverfront Playhouse and Shasta Historical Society are teaming up to bring you this new show. A number of prominent women and men in Shasta County’s history will tell their stories through our actors. Your emcee for the afternoon will be John Truitt of Viva Downtown.

For tickets: www.cascadetheatre.org or call 243-8877

CAST:

Mayor Pierson Reading (John Walsh)

Chauncey Bush (Bob Koroluck)

Mae Southern (Kathryn Kirk)

Joaquin Miller (Bill Siemer)

Black Bart (Darryll Alvey)

Mae Helene Bacon Boggs (Elsie Ritchie)

George Albro (Dan Kupsky)

Richard Eaton (Bob Christensen)

Coffee (Fred Magee)

Reporter (Lisa Collins)

Music/comic relief (Bill Collins)

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We invite you to “give where you live” for

the benefit of our local nonprofits that do such

important work in Shasta and Siskiyou Counties

during #NorthStateGivingTuesday! By making an

online donation at northstategives.org on Tuesday,

November 29th between 6 AM and 6 PM Pacific

Time, your dollars will go further thanks to

incentives of more than $75,000 provided by the

Knodel Family Endowment Fund of the Shasta

Regional Community Foundation to registered

North State nonprofits, specifically those in Shasta

and Siskiyou counties!

To make it exciting and fun, nonprofits will

also be competing for prize challenges throughout

the day and motivate their donors to help them win

extra cash.

secure online web portal

www.northstategives.org

between 6 AM and 6 PM

on November 29, 2016.

GET READY FOR

Our Annual Christmas

Annual Christmas Dinner & Gift Auction

December 8th

Riverview Golf & Country Club

Founders Pennies

A History Lesson from President Cathi ~

When did the tradition of Founder’s Pennies

begin? The tradition of giving pennies began

in 1943. Clubs collected one penny for each

year of Soroptimist’s existence and used the

money to help re-establish clubs in Europe that

had disbanded as a result of pre-World War 11

political conditions and the war itself. In 1946

the fund was renamed the Founders Fund.

This fund provided international fellowships,

scholarships and other awards to improve the

status of women. Beginning in the 1960’s,

Founders Pennies began funding for the Youth

Citizenship Awards, and now the Live Your

Dream Awards.

Founders Pennies are set at $.06 per member

times the number of years that SIA has been in

existance. (1921) For the 2016 club year, $.06

x 95 years = $5.70 per member. Clubs collect

the pennies from their members in a variety of

ways and are usually submitted with club dues.

Founders Pennies are remitted to head-

quarters by each club and represent

approximately 10 percent of the total $1.7

million contributed to fund federation programs.

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DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF . . .

and it’s all small stuff

Listen to Your Feelings

(They Are Trying to Tell You Something)

You have at your disposal a foolproof

guidance system to navigate you through life. This

system, which consists solely of your own feelings,

lets you know whether you are off track and headed

toward unhappiness and conflict – or on track,

headed toward peace of mind. Your feelings are as

a barometer, letting you know what your internal

weather is like.

When you’re not caught up in your thinking,

taking things too seriously, your feelings will be

generally positive. They will be affirming that you

are using your thinking to your advantage. No

mental adjustment needs to be made.

When your experience of life is other than

pleasant – when you’re feeling angry, resentful,

depressed, stresses out, frustrated, and so forth,

your warning system of feelings kicks in like a red

flag to remind you that your are off tract, that it’s

time to ease up on your thinking, you’ve lost

perpective. Mental adjustment does need to be

made. You can think of your negative feelings in

the same way you think of the warning light on the

dashboard of your car. When flashing, they let you

know that it’s time to ease up.

Contratry to popular belief, negative feelings

don’t need to be studied and analyzed. When you

analyze your negative feelings, you’ll usually end

up with more of them contend with.

The next time you’re feeling bad, rather than

getting stuck in “analysis paralysis,” wondering why

you feel the way you do, see if instead you can use

your feelings to guide you back to the directions

toward serenity. Don’t pretend that the negative

feelings don’t exist, but try to recognize that the

reason you’re feeling sad, angry, stressed, or

whatever is that you are taking life too seriously –

you are “sweating the small stuff.” Instead of rolling

up your sleeves and fighting life, back off, take a

few deep breaths, and relax. Remember, life isn’t

an emergency unless you make it so.

If more of us valued

food and cheer and

song above hoarded

gold, it would be a

merrier world.

J.R.R. Toklien

Why hello October,

you look good enough to eat.

Roasted Veg. Pot Pie

Serves: 6-8

Prep: 30 min.

Cooking: 1 ½ hrs.

Ingredients:

4 medium potatoes, peeled

3 sweet potatoes, scrubbed

1 butternut squash, peeled

3 red onions, cut into thin wedges

4 zucchini

6 organic carrots, scrubbed

Olive oil

6 cups milk

1 bay leaf

2 ½ oz butter 4 tbsp plain flour

8 oz grated cheddar

1 tbsp chopped chives

2 tsp Dijon mustard

2 packets ready-rolled puff pastry

1 egg, beaten

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Instructions:

1. Heat oven to 200.

2. Cut potatoes, squash, onions, zucchini

and carrots into ¾ inch chunks. Divide the

vegetables between two large roasting

tins and drizzle with olive oil. Roast, turning

occasionally for 50 minutes or until soft

and nicely colored. Remove the squash

early, if necessary. Season and divide

between 6-8 individual dishes.

3. Meanwhile, bring the milk with bay leaf to

just under boiling, on a low heat. Remove

and set aside for 10 minutes. Melt the

butter in a saucepan and sprinkle in the

flour. Stir with a wooden spoon over

medium heat for 1-2 minutes, or until the

flour has browned slightly. Gradually pour

in the milk whisking continuously, stirring

until it thickens. Add cheese, chives, and

mustard, stir well. Divide the cheese

sauce between dishes, add enough to

partly cover the vegetables.

4. Cut the pastry into squares large enough

to cover the dishes with a little overhang.

Use any leftover pastry to decorate.

5. Brush with the beaten egg, transfer to a

large baking sheet and bake for about 35

minutes or until the pastry is golden.

Tips:

You can freeze the pot pies in their dishes with

the pastry on the top. Just brush them with a

little beaten egg before cooking. The pies can

be cooked from frozen – they will need about

50 minutes. Cover the tops of the pies with foil if

they’re coloring too quickly.

Carrot Cake

with Brown Butter Cream Cheese Frosting

INGREDIENTS

Cake

1 pound carrots, finely grated

3 large eggs, room temperature

2 c. sugar

1 1/2 c. canola oil

1/3 c. buttermilk

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 c. all-purpose flour

1 c. whole wheat flour

1 tsp. baking soda

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. salt

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

1 tsp. ground ginger

1/8 tsp. ground cloves

Frosting

2 sticks of unsalted butter (room temperature)

16 oz. cream cheese (room temperature)

1 tsp. vanilla extract

dash of sea salt

3-4 c. powdered sugar

Garnish

1/4 c. shredded coconut, toasted

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Cake. Preheat oven to 350°. Line two 9"

round cake pans with parchment paper.

Whisk together carrots, eggs, sugar, oil,

buttermilk, and vanilla extract.

2. In another bowl, whisk together flour,

baking soda, baking powder, salt, and

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spices. Stir flour mixture into carrot mixture

until well combined.

3. Distribute batter evenly between the pans.

Bake for 30-40 minutes or until cake tester

comes out clean. Allow cakes to cool

completely before icing. To remove cake

from pan, loosen edges with an offset

spatula and discard parchment paper.

4. Frosting. Place one stick of butter in a small

saucepan. Cook on medium-high heat

until butter is browned, about 5 minutes.

Pour into small bowl and refrigerate for 15

minutes to cool.

5. Once cooled, cream together browned

butter, regular butter, and cream cheese

until smooth. Add vanilla extract and salt.

Mix.

6. Add powdered sugar one cup at a time.

Mix well between each addition. After 3

cups, taste to see if additional sugar is

necessary.

7. Assembly. Place bottom layer of cake on

cake stand, leveling the top if necessary.

Add a layer of icing. Place second layer

on top, leveling if necessary. Dirty ice the

cake. Place in refrigerator for 20 minutes to

chill. Finish icing the rest of the cake using

an offset spatula. Using the back of a

spoon, drag circles in the top of the cake

for the swirl effect.

8. Garnish. Sprinkle with toasted coconut if

desired.

9. Refrigerate, serve at room temperature.

In the textile-

manufacturing region of

New Hampshire in 1929,

newlyweds Honora and

Sexton Beecher wrestle

with all the wonders and

challenges that young

couples have always

faced. They've just

purchased a house near

the ocean that needs a

lot of work, but the couple

is dedicated to making it

a home. When the economy fails and a single

unscrupulous act perpetrated by Sexton is

revealed, more than love will be required to keep

the marriage from collapsing under the weight of

this betrayal. Sexton -- formerly a traveling

salesman -- is forced to take a job at the local mill

alongside other men, women, and children whose

very survival is being threatened by the harsh

burden of their daily toil. Repeated pay cuts and

inhumane conditions propel the workers closer to a

potentially violent clash with management and

union breakers. Alliances are formed, honor is

challenged, and character flaws become fatal as

the tinderbox explodes, leaving old bonds broken

and new ones bolstered.

Momentum builds steadily in this beautifully

developed story, unfettered by needless

machinations. Shreve deftly weaves the lives of a

diverse collection of characters into a tapestry that

is rich with the complete range of human emotion

and lush with tactile nuance.

Darn Books

I have stuff to do!

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“The question isn’t who is

going to let me; it’s who is

going to stop me.”

Ayn Rand

voice, "Who was that?" Ayn Rand born Alisa

Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum 1905 –1982 was a

Russian American novelist, philosopher, playwright,

and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-

selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas

Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical

system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia,

she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a

play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After

two early novels that were initially unsuccessful in

America, she achieved fame with her 1943

novel, The Fountainhead.

In 1957, Rand published her best-known

work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she

turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy,

publishing her own magazines and releasing

several collections of essays until her death in

1982. Rand advocated reason as the only means of

acquiring knowledge, and rejected faith and

religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism,

and rejected altruism. In politics, she condemned

the initiation of force as immoral, and opposed

collectivism and statism as well as anarchism, and

instead supported laissez-faire capitalism, which

she defined as the system based on recognizing

romantic realism. She was sharply critical of most

philosophers and philosophical traditions known to

her, except for Aristotle and some Aristotelians,

and classical liberals. Literary critics received

Rand’s fiction with mixed reviews and academia

generally ignored or rejected her philosophy,

though academic interest has increased in recent

decades. The Objectivist movement attempts to

spread her ideas, both to the public and in

academic settings. She has been a significant

influence among libertarians and American

conservatives.

I CAN’T ADULT TODAY,

PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME ADULT.

After putting her grandchildren to bed, a

grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy

blouse and proceeded to wash her hair. As she

heard the children getting more and more

rambunctious, her patience grew thin. Finally, she

threw a towel around her head and stormed into

their room, putting them back to bed with stern

warnings. As she left the room, she heard the

three-year-old say with a trembling voice “Who was

that!”