Remember When

In celebration of the Chinese New Year, a local “boss chairman,” On Hi, held a banquet for a number of his white townsmen.

The menu consisted of fish brain and chicken soup, chicken heart and gizzard sandwiches and pork a la mode.

Cal Price, who had recently broken out of the Butte County Jail, was recaptured in a deserted mine where he had been for several days. His experience in the dark caused his jet-black hair to turn gray and caused his features to age as well.

70 years ago

Preparations are under way at the Susanville Post Office for receiving applications next week from enemy nationalities, including Italian, German and Japanese, who were forced to register for certificates of nationality.

45 years ago

A father was reunited with his wife and two children, who were found near freezing after spending a night outdoors. The family truck had gotten stuck in the mud and the father went out to get help and got lost.

20 years ago

Lassen Community College President Larry Blake, declared at the Jan. 21 college board meeting that after six difficult years, the college’s bout with bankruptcy has finally come to an end.

Federal Court Judge Loran S. Dahla signed the final order releasing Lassen College from Chapter 9 bankruptcy on Jan. 9.

15 years ago

The Lassen County courts are scheduled to get a state bailout to remain open through February. But March and the rest of the current fiscal year is another question.

Because of the bailout, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday, Jan. 14, to rescind layoff notices sent to court employees that were to take effect the end of this month.

Those notices came in late December after it appeared the state legislature would not fund the courts for this fiscal year any time soon.

10 years ago

After being threatened with bodily harm, Lassen Municipal Utility District 3 Director Mike Deal resigned his position on the board of directors Tuesday, Jan. 23.

Deal declined to discuss his resignation on the record with the newspaper.

Five years ago

“To be a parent, one has to be consistent and persistent,” said Jo Frost, the British star of the ABC show, “Supernanny,” from the front yard of a Herlong home.

However, sometimes parents need the skills and observation of a career nanny turned TV star. Danielle and Tom Silva applied online to get the two-week help of Frost, who has 16 years experience as a nanny in her hometown of London, England.

Danielle said with her husband Tom getting ready for a long tour in Iraq, she needs help in getting her house under control before he leaves. Tom is known in local National Guard and veterans’ circles for running the armory located on the Lassen County Fairgrounds.

Last year

Lassen County Fair Manager Jim Wolcott wants everyone to know the Lassen County Fair will go on this year, even though Governor Jerry Brown is proposing to cut fair funding.

“We are working toward fair this year and we are confident we are going to get some sort of money,” he said.

120 years ago

A dispatch from Alturas to N.S. McKinley, postmaster at this place, says the liquor ordinance was repealed.

The Lassen Advocate contains interesting reading. People in that section hold of the irrigation question and have accomplished much already.

Their efforts will bear fruit before the close of the year and the Gazette congratulates the people and the Advocate for the good work it has done in that direction.

In an 1892 article about a local swindler who was tricking people into buying expensive picture frames with their enlarged prints, it was stated most of the victims were women, “their being, as a rule, more gullible than a man.”