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Turtle Bay Museum will join a small but growing group of buildings in Redding boasting giant ice-making machines designed to cut energy demand during hot summer afternoons.
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Welcome to Riverpark Highlands Located on the West part of Redding, this neighborhood is a local's favorite. Personally, I love it because of the views! It's also not your "cookie-cutter" type neighborhood. Every house has its own unique style.  This morning I met with one of the home owners who bought a
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Welcome to Riverpark Highlands Located on the West part of Redding, this neighborhood is a local's favorite. Personally, I love it because of the views! It's also not your "cookie-cutter" type neighborhood. Every house has its own unique style.  This morning I met with one of the home owners who bought a
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I was going to say that Turtle Bay Exploration Park's self-serving new study about its impact on the local economy reminded me a bit of that line from Dickens: "Oliver Twist has asked for more!" But that was before I...
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Join the forum discussion on this post - (1) PostsWell yesterday while waiting for some clients to finish an appointment, I took their kids and mine to Turtle Bay Museum to see the Birds In Fligh
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Sandy Vorous remembers the day her son, Adam, came home from Turtle Bay School enthusiastic about seeing the animated film “Wallace & Gromit.”
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I was going to say that Turtle Bay Exploration Park’s self-serving new study about its impact on the local economy reminded me a bit of that line from Dickens: “Oliver Twist has asked for more!”
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Last evening, passing the Café at Turtle Bay, heard the Easy St. Band playing a song by one of those Sixties one-hit wonders The Box Tops or The Turtles. Which is a good segue to this comment on Jim...
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Turtle Bay Exploration Park pumps just less than $10 million a year into the local economy and generates slightly less return to the city coffers than the annual taxpayer subsidy and cost of maintaining the Sundial Bridge.
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Turtle Bay Exploration Park poured about $9.6 million into Shasta County's economy last year, according to the Washington, D.C., research group Americans for the Arts.
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If you want to see fireworks Friday, you may have to travel to Mount Shasta. Because the north state’s fire conditions are crazy dry and dangerous, fireworks celebrations have been canceled and/or postponed left and right.  Extinguished fireworks include: Saturday’s Burney Basin Days f
Turtle Bay Exploration Park and Shasta County Arts Council invite artists to participate in the 2008 Shasta Artist Studio Tour, October 11 and 12. The Studio Tour is held in conjunction with the Arts Council’s Shasta Artist Studio Tour Exhibition, a collection of local artists’ work, open at Old City Hall fro
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Cultural educator Tina Casebeer of Redding demonstrates how to keep body parts in proportion during her anatomical drawing class Wednesday. Casebeer was teaching students in Turtle Bay Exploration Park’s figure-drawing art class that was held in conjunction with the park’s “Bodies Revealed” exhibit. The
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Raw energy was on dramatic display Saturday morning at Redding's eighth annual Energy Fair -- and not necessarily in the way event organizers planned.
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The sun is in top form today, having hit its annual zenith.
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Sun worshipers and “curious” beings alike are invited to gather at the one-of-a-kind, world famous, Sundial Bridge in Redding at 11:00 a.m. on June 21, 2008. At The Sundial Bridge - All activities are Free! In Latin, “solstice” means “sun stands still.” For severa
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The last time I felt that nervous while driving in the Convention Center parking lot was when teaching my kids to drive. My fears were the same: A wreck or fender-bender. This time, I was the one behind the wheel as I test drove a brand new To
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Green Building Trends to be Discussed at Turtle Bay Mark Pawlicki, Director of Government Affairs at Sierra Pacific Industries, will talk at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, about the current trend of green building standards and how they relate to...
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One of the Turtle Bay eaglets has been testing its wings, say the scientists monitoring the pair of young birds, which have grown up in what was a controversial nest. "At this point, everything seems normal," said Tom Balkow, senior environmental planner in the state Department of Transportation's Red
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On opening day of “Bodies Revealed” at Turtle Bay Exploration Park, I was stationed at the Touch Table, a display of real human organs that visitors are allowed to feel. It gave me goose bumps. That’s what happens when the tiny nerve endings at the base of your hair follicles become excited. And excited I
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Redding real estate developer and mortgage broker James Koenig, a major Turtle Bay Exploration Park booster, faces four lawsuits claiming that he bilked investors in a tax-shelter scam and defaulted on loans used to help finance the alleged schemes. One of the suits described Koenig's business empire
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Even 20-, 30- and early 40-somethings need a little time at the museum.
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Bold zinnias, quirky ornamental peppers, colorful coleus and other flashy plants won’t provide any visual pop at Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding this summer.
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Turtle Bay Exploration Park's latest fundraiser is geared toward putting a little green back into the public's pocketbook.
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A zip line at Shasta Lake could take years because of the Forest Service bureaucracy, David Benda writes. An opportunity for Turtle Bay? Run one from the bluffs over the arboretum and terminating near the Sundial Bridge? Just a thought....
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• Garden tour tickets available • Gardening classes offered at Turtle Bay • Let flowers turn to seed for birds • UC book has tips on owls and bats • Tell us about your events
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Premier Exhibitions insists that the cadavers in its “Bodies Revealed” exhibit at Turtle Bay Exploration Park were not tortured to death, noting they came from a different supplier than those in a different, larger New York City display that will prompt warnings.
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Debbie Malkovich knows her sciatic nerve all too well.
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Just what the folks at Turtle Bay were praying for.... From NOAA.gov: ...HOLIDAY WEEKEND WEATHER WILL BE ANYTHING BUT MEMORABLE.. AN UNSEASONABLY COOL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL LINGER OVER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA THROUGH THE MEMORIAL DAY HOLIDAY WEEKEND...CAUSING CLOUDY.. COOL AND...
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Imagine Kelly Brewer's blog headline ("I never knew testicles hung like that") plastered on billboards up and down I-5. Turtle Bay would be at sixty thousand visitors in no time....
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Strip off the skin, sweep away bone, muscle and human physiology — the human machine is revealed in a stark realism that should delight and dismay visitors to Turtle Bay Exploration Park. “Bodies Revealed,” the Premier Exhibitions Inc. of Atlanta exhibit that features seven complete preserved bo
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Fascinating if sparsely attended talk at Turtle Bay Exploration Park last night by Chad Moore, a sort of traveling evangelist of darkness with the National Park Service. Darkness is a funny thing. When you lose it, you can see better,...
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Like a butterfly that finally emerges from the confines of its chrysalis, Chrysalis Charter School students will have a new place to learn. Yesterday Chrysalis signed a lease to rent one wing of the former St. Francis Middle School, part of the Bishop Quinn High School campus in Palo Cedro. The Diocese
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Turtle Bay Exploration Park is losing its top financial person, who could be headed for a job with Shasta County.
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Someone else leaving Turtle Bay? From the May 20 board of supervisors agenda: C5 Auditor-Controller: Approve the appointment of Allyn F. Clark at Step 'F' of the Supervising Accountant-Administrative classification. From Jan. 2, 2007 city council meeting minutes: City Manager...
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• English tea and garden tour set • Summer camp has gardening theme • Turtle Bay plans walks in gardens
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Kids' Tour of Turtle Bay. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding. Tickets $30 SLT members, $35 nonmembers. Call 241-7886 or go to www.shastalandtrust.org for tickets and information.
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Turtle Bay Exploration Park  Exhibit runs May 24- mid Sept. Admission:  Adults (13 - 64) $23 Member Adults $16 Seniors (65+) $19 Children (4-12) $19 Member Senior/Child $13 Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. daily  More info: [ww
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The Wings of Summer: Birds! and Butterflies! exhibits have opened at Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding. The seasonal displays at the Paul Bunyan Forest Camp feature colorful, exotic birds in a walk-in aviary and hundreds of live butterflies in an enclosed garden.
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The economic slowdown failed to dampen Turtle Bay Exploration Park's auction, held in March at the Redding Convention Center.
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I've been thinking about the "Bodies Revealed" exhibition coming to Turtle Bay Exploration Park.
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• Learn about trees and new tree group • Enjoy gardens, art and more in Lewiston • Turtle Bay holds annual plant sale
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Seventh-grader Marina Cuneo of North Woods Discovery School in Redding was recently awarded $100 for winning the grand prize in the 16th annual McConnell Arboretum and Gardens Plant Sale spring poster contest. Marina’s artwork will be displayed on Turtle Bay Exploration Park’s poster for the April 25 event.
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The exhibit named "Bodies Revealed" opens at Turtle Bay Exploration Park on May 24. A number of similar exhibits have toured major cities in the United States since 2004 and have now been seen by more then 25 million people in Asia, the Americas and Europe. Redding appears to be the smallest city to secure "Bodi
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Independent thinking has long been an ideal that has been valued in the north state in general, and in Shasta County in particular. So, as the current president of Turtle Bay's board of trustees and a four-year board member, I'm not surprised to hear almost as many opinions about Turtle Bay as we have residents.
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…I’d be watching The Rolling Stones in “Shine a Light” tonight. The Martin Scorsese documentary is now playing at an IMAX in Sacramento. On the other hand, who wants to see a close-up of Keith Richards three stories high (see...
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Pierce Young, 7, of Redding drew this colorful picture of different types of dinosaurs. Pierce is a second-grader at Turtle Bay Elementary. Pierce likes karate,
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Cass Ditzler, who has been principal of Turtle Bay Elementary School for the past five years, will take over at Sequoia Middle School beginning in the fall. The following is an excerpt from a recent conversation.
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• Gardening classes set at Turtle Bay • Classes on plants, ponds planned at Wyntour • Garden shop opens at McConnell Arboretum
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