There is so much to celebrate this year in Redding!

With so much to celebrate this year in Redding, the City of Redding and the Redding Chamber of Commerce proudly welcome the community to the 2022 State of the City. The free event will take place in Downtown Redding at Umbrella Alley on Friday, September 23 from 4–5 pm.

City of Redding Mayor Kristen Schreder will deliver the 2022 State of the City speech, Hope Moves Us Forward…


…Redding Chamber of Commerce President & CEO, Jake Mangas will give a brief Chamber update. He will then introduce Todd Jones of the Shasta EDC followed by Danny Orloff of Visit Redding.

The event will feature music and community informational booths. Limited seating is available. This event is FREE and open to the public….


…Here’s to celebrating all of the great things happening in this community together!

Visit the Facebook Event Page to learn more…






https://northstateparent.com/event/state-of-the-city-2022/








This is the time of the year many areas give their state of the city speeches. Most are done in council chambers or at a private club setting or chamber of commerce. Here it’s in an open air public place where the public can freely attend and then go to other planned local events that evening or the weekend.

 

We who live here have much to be proud of.

 

Thanks. We need to hear good news these days. We'll be there... in spirit at least.

 

In today’s negative bad news dominates world a bit of good news or a change of pace is nice. Many on both sides for different reasons will be surprised to see that this is a place in California. Next week I’ll share what is said about the good events that have happened and will soon be happening.

 

It gets hot as balls there between May and September plus it is humid.

 

That's why God gave us central heat and air.

 

You are correct about mid June through mid September regarding heat, but wrong about the rest. Our heat is almost always a very dry heat with humidity in single digits to 15%. Two weeks ago when we did have 110-115 degree warmth the humidity was 9-15%. The last week was in the 80’s and tonight throu Tuesday we are expecting some moderate rainfall. Our aquatic center swimming pools, water works, lakes, rivers, and waterfalls were very inviting this last summer that’s about to end.

 

Indeed and because the humidity is so low, people did fine here with evaporative swamp/water coolers as I did growing up and until 2005 in my own house. Many homes here still rely on that for cooling.

 

Yes. I spent 20 years in San Diego with the hot desert on one side and the cool water on the other. Very pleasant.

 

We have mountains surrounding us in close proximity every direction but south. We are where the north end of the states Central Valley begins. We have very pleasant spring and fall seasons and wetter winters than where most of the states population lives. We can get an Alaska inspired cold snap in the winter that brings snow or a frost freeze for a few days every once in a while and have heat trapped low by surrounding mountains that can make us rival Las Vegas or Phoenix for summer heat when that happens. We are the 2nd sunniest city in the nation each year. We still average 33” of rainfall between November and April.

 

The New York Times took a shot at us the other day for the conservative nature of this city and county and because we voted for Trump by the same margin that the state voted for Biden. A total hit piece regarding the debate between Reagan era Republicans and newer Trump Republicans as to how to best govern our three cities here (Anderson, Redding, Shasta Lake City) and county. (Shasta)

 

A truly beautiful part of the world. A small population of sane people in a massive state of lunatics.

Incidentally, you have almost the exact same climate as my hometown of Perth, Western Australia.

 

You are correct and it’s interesting that you mention that. We have a place called Turtle Bay in the middle of the city. It includes an interesting museum, a bird sanctuary, a large forest area thats a wildlife preserve next to the Sacramento River and a beautiful pedestrian bridge across to a trail system, arboretum, and a botanical garden that has plant life, flowers, bushes, and trees from all five Mediterranean climate areas on earth in different sections from your area of Australia, South Africa, Italy/Greece/Israel, Chile, and of course here. You might like this info.

https://www.turtlebay.org/

the gardens are closed temporarily as they are being made ready for our annual garden of lights one million lights Christmas lights, sounds, and smells celebration November 18-January 8.

 

I grew up in San Diego and still live here. It is indeed very pleasant. I am lucky to be a home owner here. You forgot to mention two mountain ranges and a set of foothills between the desert and the coastal range.

 

I escaped California five years ago and am now a happily unencumbered gun owner that pays no state taxes, living in a home I could never afford in San Diego, unburdened by all the tyrannical China Virus Mandates there, not tripping over the homeless on a walk in the neighborhood, all the while surrounded by the friendliest people in the world.

PS - After belly crawling through a sandstorm in Iraq, sleeping in the crook of a tree in Panama to escape the raging waters below, awakening under two feet of snow on the deck of an M109 in Germany, and dangling precariously from a cliff in Dahlonega, mountain ranges hold no interest for me. A Marriott with poolside service is as close to nature as I want these days!

 

Why are you talking smack about my State when you don't even live here?

I get the feeling this forum has a lot of people who aren't very nice.

 

Sorry, I'm a native New Yorker. I'm not thrilled about New York either. Like California its way too wacky left wing and restrictive. I grew up digging the family car out of the snow listening to the Beach Boys. I lived in many places due to the Army before landing in San Diego for twenty years. The Beach Boys were all grampa's, homeless lined the streets, costs were oppressive, gun laws were Draconian, and taxes crippling. I don't single out California for all these faults and the other issues like crime and China Virus Tyranny, far from it. Illinois, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey and most blue states have the same ills. I just had the wherewithal to leave... so I did.

I lived the wise advice that a secretary of mine offered years ago. She said. "Being in the world and only living in one place is like living in a library and only reading one book." I have lived in many places. Some I liked, some I did not. I researched long and hard about my last move... into retirement. We chose Texas for myriad reasons without ever having lived here before. We chose well. We love it here. (Virginia was my fave before moving here.)

Nothing personal in my comments about California. They are about a crazy radical left wing state government mainly.

 

I was really speaking to the guy from Australia talking smack. California has everything including the nuts. But I'll take a California nut over all others any day of the week. We have a lot of nuts because we have as many people as many countries. We also have an economy the size of many country's. We have a highly diverse State of almost 40 million.

There is a reason the cost of living is astronomical. That happens because so many people want to live here.

 

And declining. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/may/02/california-population-decline-trend-covid

 

Well actually he’s exactly right about what is our state. It’s leadership and coastal urban population is exactly what he said it is. Notice my icon. I’m from another part of the state besides San Bernardino county trying to form our own state or failing that join with a bunch of Oregon counties and maybe a few from Washington to join a Greater Idaho. The icon gold is the State of Jefferson and greater Idaho would be Siskiyou, Modoc, Shasta, Lassen, Tehama, Plumas counties. Where we live in California, we love the local area but there is no state we like less than California as presently run. As to the people who are here, there are many friendly members here.

 

So many people used to want to live here. We’ve been at just under 40 million for quite some time now and are now actually losing population. We actually lost a congressional district for the first time and it went to a better red state. LA and SF are declining in population faster than the inland is growing population. A bunch of SF refugees moved into the suburbs east of Sacramento and are trying to ruin Roseville the way they did where they came from.