March 2, 2022
Liz Writes Life
Golf in April
The Rotary Club of Scott Valley will be hosting its 28th
Annual Golf Tournament at the Weed Golf Course on Saturday, April 30, 2022.
Registration is at 8 a.m. and a shotgun start at 9 a.m. Entry
fees are $70 which includes green fees, cart, coffee and donuts in the
morning. Lunch will feature polish
sausage & hamburgers. Members of the course pay $45 and must secure their
own carts. Early registration is encouraged so Rotary can plan the field and
have enough carts.
This is a four-man scramble and will be handicapped. If you
do not have a handicap, one will be assigned. This tournament is opened to the
public. Contact Bob or Vinnie McNeil for more information at 530-468-2608.
$140 million for firefighters
A Northern California wildland firefighting company has
received a grant that will allow it to develop and train 5,000 new professional
firefighters throughout the nation.
Congressman Doug LaMalfa recently announced that a United
States Forest Service Indefinite-Delivery contract was awarded to Firestorm
Wildland Fire Suppression, Inc. This contract award was part of several made
throughout the country for Type 2 Initial Attack qualified wildland firefighter
crews. The contract period is for the next five years and up to $140 million.
LaMalfa said, “I applaud the hard work of the Firestorm crew
and their dedication to the forestry industry. Type 2 wildland firefighters are
essential in wildland fire management and are at the forefront of dangerous
conditions to build fire lines across backcountry terrain with hand tools and
chainsaws.”
He added that Firestorm is a “leader in emergency services
and forest management in the Butte County area.”
Leah Will, Co-owner of Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression,
was “thrilled” with the new award of the Type II Attack Handcrew contract. She
said the grant will allow Firestorm to develop and train 600 new professional
firefighters within the organization and 5,000 nationally.
Enjoy Family History
RootsTech the world’s largest family history and genealogy
conference will be held this week in Salt Lake City, Utah, but will be shown virtually
over the internet -- and it is free!
RootsTech was first held in 2011, at the Salt Palace
conference center, with several thousand people attending. It grew quickly with
motivational speakers, dozens of workshops and a giant room full of innovative
and technology-type of showcasing. But because of the pandemic lockdown last
year, it went all-virtual and found it was even more successful. RootsTech
reported that more than 1 million visitors tuned-in from over 240 countries and
territories during the 2021 conference.
Yes, learning about and doing family history is popular. This
year, the theme is: Choose Connection. And connection will be easy in a variety
of ways. “Relatives at RootsTech” is a feature participants can use through the
FamilySearch Family Tree to connect to known and unknown relatives also
participating in the conference. This technology was a big hit last year. There
is also a program that will show you many famous relatives and ancestors are in
your family tree.
There are a variety of keynote speakers from boxing legend
Azumah Nelson, who recorded his speech in Accra, Ghana to Argentine singer
Diego Torres, who recorded his event from Buenos Aires, Argentine to French
baker Apollonia Poilane, who recorded his speech from Versailles, French. USA
actor Matthew Modine is also one of the speakers.
Daily family history workshop sessions will be streamed in 11
languages and other sessions will be available in 40 additional languages.
Leaders of the conference believe “connection” is a powerful thing. They have
watched as people around the world want to connect; want to figure out how they
fit in; how they belong; and how they connect to their family and society.
Doing family history is one way to truly connect and find understanding.
If you go to the RootsTech.org website, you can find 1,500
sessions from last year’s conference in the vast online learning library. (Just
to let you know, RootsTech website is hosted by FamilySearch.org.)
I did notice that these sessions can be fairly short at 15 to
30 minutes. When the conference was live at the Salt Palace, before the
pandemic, many sessions were much longer. It seems the organizers have been
able to get presenters to focus-in on their subject a bit better, saying they
are more strategic about quality over quantity. I prefer the shorter
presentations. Guess my attention-span isn’t very long!
So, I encourage anyone interested in learning about family
history and recording family stories to check this event out. It should be
inspiring. This year’s event will feature about 900 new sessions from
presenters, who are from around the world. It is easy to peruse through the topics
buttons. You can also learn how to use specific websites like FamilySearch.org,
Ancestry.com, My Heritage and others.
Hope you give it a try!
May peace and calm be with you this week. Smile – just cuz it
makes you feel better!
Liz Bowen began writing ranch and
farm news, published in newspapers, in 1976. She is a native of Siskiyou
County. Columns from the past can be found at: lizwriteslife.blogspot.com. Call
her at 530-467-3515.
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