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This Week's Featured Video: Brian Culbertson


Our Top 3 Artists:
1) Brian Culbertson
2) Jessy J
3) Chris Standring

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Summer Wine Pairings Summer Wine Pairings
Ahhh summer time... always full of flavor... especially when it comes to what you eat when it gets hot out. Here are some wine pairings for your summer menu:

Grilled Hamburgers with Old White Cheddar

A hamburger contains many complex flavours: beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato, mustard and relish, to name a few. An Australian Shiraz or Californian Syrah will handle these competing interests with aplomb. If using a stronger, older cheese, try a Cabernet Sauvignon. Read More..

Find the lowest gas prices in town Find the lowest gas prices in town
Smooth Jazz 96.1 the Bridge can't do much about rising gas prices, but we can equip you with info on who's gouging you the least. Just click right here for the lowest prices in Redding.

New Smooth Jazz Releases New Smooth Jazz Releases
June 15
Artist: ERIC DARIUS
CD: Goin' All Out
Label: Blue Note Label Group

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June 24
Artist: WARREN HILL (pictured)
CD: La Dolce Vita
Label: Koch

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Summer TV Summer TV
With summer time comes summer reality TV shows! We won't admit to watching any (okay maybe So You Think You Can Dance)... and we don't expect you to admit to it either...

That's why we're keeping it anonymous... but we'd still like to know if there is a crazy summer reality show that has you hooked... we don't have room to list them all so we went with the craziest ones we could find.

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Jazz Festivals <i><b>July Dates Added</i></b> Jazz Festivals July Dates Added
Visit our concert calendar to get info on all of June & July's Jazz Festival dates.

New Countdown Saturday Mornings New Countdown Saturday Mornings
Join Alan Kepler every Saturday at 8am for the Smooth Jazz top 20 Countdown!

Pictured: Alan with Jessy J

Interviews with today biggest Jazz hit-makers, up-and-coming great new songs, and a chance to hear how your favorites are doing around the nationwide jazz community.

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Getting Green
Getting Green
Local tips from Shasta County view

Here's a tip from Good House Keeping :
Warm up to solar energy

You may not be ready for a totally sun-powered home, but you can get a taste of the technology by using solar-powered lighting in your yard or on your patio. We like Malibu's Solar Floodlight (intermatic.com)

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Cascade Theatre Entertainment Report
Cascade Theatre Entertainment Report
Featured Event: Kenny Loggins In Concert

There are certain welcoming voices in popular music that can be identified as soon as a song starts – they’re immediately familiar musical touchstones, inextricably part of our collective cultural soundtrack. Singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins possesses such a voice, Read More..

Find The Perfect Place To Eat Out
Find The Perfect Place To Eat Out
A sizzling steak... a righteous rigatoni... a tasty tostada...

What ever your tastes are you'll be able to find the restaurant to eat it in at caferedding.com

 
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LATEST FIRE INFORMATION - UPDATED SATURDAY JULY 5 AT 9:52AM
HIGHWAY INFO-

Highway 32 (Lassen National Forest)is closed due to fire danger from 13 miles East of Forest Ranch to the Highway 36 Junction. Further closures in the Lassen Forest are now in place. Click here for further closures

Highway 70 IS CLOSED FROM 11.8 MI WEST OF THE BUTTE/PLUMAS CO LINE TO THE JCT OF SR 89 /THE GREENVILLE WYE/ (PLUMAS CO)

SHASTA COUNTY INCIDENTS:

Skies should be filled with more smoke due to the backfire operation being conducted on the Motion Fire near Shasta Dam. The Martin Mars bomber was up all day yesterday and should be flying again today.

Fire acreages hadn’t significantly grown since Thursday night.

53,600 ACRES HAVE BURNED with 50% overall containment - 1869 personnel - Portions of Lake Shasta near the Dam are being used by the Martin Mars and other air resources for water. Federal. state, and local authorities are warning recreational users to free up space for Fire bomber and helicopter use. The Martin Mars Bomber has been used on both the Motion Fire and the Lime Complex and will be flying unless the skies are too hazy. The plane is based at Bridge Bay and will remain in the Northstate until no longer needed.

Motion Fire (merging with Democrat Fire) – 16,700 acres, 50% containment. 1 home, 1 cabin, 1 garage, and 3 outbuildings were destroyed by the fire. Closures include: Iron Mtn. Road at Rock Creek Rd is open to residence only. River Trail- trails on the west side of the Sacramento River from Keswick Dam north to Shasta Dam are closed. Hornbeck/Walker Mine trail on the east side of the Sacramento River from Quartz Hill Rd. north to Walker Mine Rd. and north to Shasta Dam is closed. Iron Mountain Rd. at Copley OHV Park is closed.

Moon Fire near Paradise Peak West of Redding between Hwy 36 and 299W has merged with the Mary Fire. 18,600 acres, 25% containment. Road Closures have been lifted. According to authorities there is a possible merging of the Moon Fire and the Deerlick fires.

Deerlick Fire is Southwest of Ono and North of Platina. 16,800 acres burned, containment 30%.

TEHAMA COUNTY:

Platina Fire – 5118 acres with 100% containment. 3 structures destroyed including 2 homes.

SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL FOREST

Lime Complex – 41,362 acres 65% containment. Full containment not expected until July 31st.

Iron complex - 24,915 acres burned, containment to 19% - Full containment expected July 25th.

Alps Complex – offshoot of the Iron Complex – 708 acres burned, 15% containment.

LASSEN COUNTY:

The Cub Complex southwest of Chester has burned almost 7152 acres, is 26% contained with 917 fire personnel.

WHISKEYTOWN NATIONAL PARK:

Whiskeytown Fire – The blaze is at 4800 acres with 40% containment and 440 personnel. A portion of the complex has merged with the Moon Fire. Please be advised that the park is heavily impacted by firefighting equipment and personnel. - Multiple restrictions and warnings are in place and visitors should be aware that park resources are extremely limited or unavailable. After long discussions with park staff, we advise this may not be the best choice for holiday weekend plans/celebrations.

BUTTE COUNTY: 19,515 acres - 45% overall containment.

BUTTE COUNTY INFORMATION

Public Health Departments urge residents to limit outdoor activity because of wildfire smoke. For questions regarding masks or the need of them, please contact your local health department or your private physician.

ANIMALS:

For those evacuating large animals, Dennis Patterson has a large ranch that will accept animals. Please give him a call at 524-9652. Laurie also has a ranch in the Hooker Creek Road area - Call her at 347-9813. Pam Dalton also has several corrals available. Her number is 357-4730. The Redding Rodeo Grounds is also allowing residents to use any open corrals. Another Chance Animal Welfare League can help those not having trailers evacuate large and small animals. They can also help with housing those animals -Call 547-PETS. Anthony's Tubes and Hoses also has a few acres for people looking for safe housing for large animals. Call 378-2600. Kyle Coulter has 12 acres and is also willing to help people who are looking for a place for their large animals. Call 347-9012

Shasta County Fire information can be obtained by calling 225-2510.

To donate food, water and money to the Redding Red Cross, call 244-8000.

For the latest in depth information on the Lime and Iron Complex Fires, call 226-2368.

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