Volume XVII Issue 2

Tuesday, August 13th, 2024

The past few weeks have been a blast as our family enjoyed watching womens rugby, basketball, gymnastics, swimming, and track, to name a few. We were drawn into the personal stories, families in the stands, Fava Flav, and Snoop Dogg.

Here are some of my top moments and take-aways from these games:

1. Ilona Maher – the social media darling of the womens rugby team and her message to girls, athletes or not, of body positivity reached millions. She is funny, irreverent, and has the best shades of lipstick.

The Womens Gymnastics team. All of them are queens and I am so irritated that they might take away Jordan Chiles’ bronze medal. Just make another one! Anyway, they are strong, artistic, and beautifully athletic.

2. We could all learn something from them by taking breaks for our mental health when needed and celebrating the competition when they earn it. The image of Simone Biles and Jordan Chiles bowing down to Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade will go down in Olympic history.

3. Both of the womens and mens 4X400 teams. Holy cow! They were fast. I loved watching 16-year-old Quincy Wilson as his team clinched the gold. Crazy to think he will be sitting in his high school classroom in a couple weeks.

4. Mondo Duplantis’ pole jump world record. How did he do that? I watched him throw himself over the bar over and over again and I don’t how it is physically possible. It was like a Marvel moment.

5. Stef Curry, Lebron James, and company as they made the basketball team from France go “night, night”. They may have given us heartburn with their come-from-behind win over Serbia, but they redeemed themselves mightily in the gold medal game.

These are just a few that will live in my memory until the next Olympics rolls around in 2028. Do you think Susanville Stuff will send me to LA as a correspondent? Between me and Terra Avilla, we have it covered!

Remember when news was ‘newsy’? When you read about weddings, family events and engagement announcements in the newspaper? If you have something that might be newsworthy, please submit it to shelleybennett24@gmail.com and I’ll do my best to include it here in “The Good Stuff.”

Bartell’s Backroads Stops for a Visit at the Lassen Historical Museum

When John Bartell, from Sacramento’s ABC10 Television comes to town you can bet he will find something interesting to talk about. With dozens of videos on YouTube covering places of interest in northern California and southern Oregon it’s no wonder he eventually found his way to Susanville – stopping by the Lassen Historical Museum and Roop’s Fort for a short visit in July.

Bartell dropped by the museum and spent time looking at some of the more unique items in the collection – a wooden leg found along the immigrant trail, a shotgun shell-loaded coyote deterrent, and a pair of monkey fangs extracted by a local dentist to mention a few.

The Lassen County Historical Society’s Secretary and board member Susan Couso gave Bartell the tour, highlighting bits and pieces of Lassen County’s past 170 years for the video which aired on Channel 10 in Sacramento and also streams on Youtube.

Click here to watch the video at YouTube.

Lassen Historical Society Secretary and Board Member Susan Couso with John Bartell, host of Bartell’s Backroads on YouTube and abc10 in Sacramento.

Saturday afternoon, beginning at 12:30 there will be live music on the Canopy Stage with Huckleberry Road and Ikana.

Day two of the festival heats up at 5:00 with a performance by Red Jump Suit Apparatus, followed by Hinder at 6:30 and KALEO at 8:30.

Each night there will be an after party at The Hollow featuring live music and a DJ from 10:00 to 2:00a.m.

You can purchase general admission; VIP and The Pit passes for one or both days online by clicking here. Tickets are going quickly, especially VIP packages.

For more information about the festival, visit the Hidden Woods website.

Would you like to win a pair of passes? Of course you would!

The nice folks at the Hidden Woods Festival are giving one of our lucky SusanvilleStuff readers a pair of Pit passes and a camping spot for next weekend's festival.

The Pit passes are worth $125 each and include two nights of Main Stage performances, access to The Pit, close to the Main Stage, all grass concert venue, access to The Grove inside the concert venue, access to daytime festival experiences, access to food and merch vendors, access to festival bars and entry into the after party at The Hollow. That's a whole lot of fun!

Simply click this link and head on over to fill out our handy entry form - check back this Friday morning to see if you are our winner! We'll announce the winner right here on SusanvilleStuff.com. You are allowed to enter once per day, per e-mail address. Good luck!

Deadline to enter is Thursday, August 15th, 2024 at midnight. You must be 21 to enter this contest.

These reports and documents are also available at the City’s website.

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays until September 27th, the pool will hold Aqua Aerobics from 8:30 until 9:30a.m.

​Lap Swim will be offered at a variety of times between now and October 25th. Until September 27th Lap Swim will be on Monday and Wednesday from 12:30 to 1:30p.m.; Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9:00 to 10:00 and Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 3:30 to 5:30.

From October 1st to October 25th Lap Swim is scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 3:30 to 5:30p.m.

Looking east down Main Street at the intersection of Mesa Street in 1945

New Alleyways Occupy Council

August 13, 1945

Acquisition of new alleyways and much miscellaneous business occupied the Susanville city council Monday night.

An alleyway 30 by 150 feet, lying east of the Veterans’ Memorial Hall, was bought to connect Main St., with North alley. Negotiations are underway with Deal & Davie to buy a 40-foot strip between the alley and the Roop’s Fort property.

A building lot south of the court house was sold to Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Fountain.

The council approved Clyde Deal’s subletting his airport rights to Ray Knickrem, Jan G. Gardner and Catherine R. Kane. The permit runs for six months.

Other business included discussion of proposed licenses on juke boxes. Action was deferred. Chief W. O. Long reported that he had removed the city’s one pin ball machine.

The city attorney was instructed to draft and present at the next meeting an ordinance on licenses for frozen food lockers.

The city will buy 100 feet of one-inch rubber and 300 feet of 2 ½ inch fire hose. The oldest 300 feet on hand will go to the Paul Bunyan fire truck which will then be ready to assist the city truck.

The city engineer was authorized to burn weeds on vacant lots and charge the owners for the work.

A signal call system for the police officers is being investigated.

Lola (Ochotorena) Mendiolea – May 30, 2024

Vivian M. Love – July 3, 2024

John J Wilczynski Jr. – July 9, 2024

Sherrell R. McBroome – July 5th, 2024

Wanda (Goodwin) Mallery – July 12, 2024