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Mervyns gives 100 kids shopping sprees

Mervyns department store will outfit 100 Redding-area children with back-to-school clothes and supplies Saturday for its annual ChildSpree program.

Children, accompanied by volunteer chaperones from Northern Valley Catholic Social Service and Mervyns, will walk the store from 7 to 9 a.m. selecting back-to-school items. Each child will also receive a backpack donated by Eastsport.

Through the ChildSpree program, to date Mervyns has donated more than $19 million to send 190,000 students nationwide back to school with new clothes and supplies.

Library reading program focuses on watersheds

Redding Library's teen summer reading program "Metamorphosis @ Your Library" will feature a special program Tuesday on local watersheds.

Beginning at 2 p.m. in the library's community room, Maureen Teubert, the watershed coordinator for Western Shasta Resource Conservation District, will bring in a model watershed to demonstrate and discuss the impact various human activities have on waterways and the creatures that depend on them.

The event is free. For more information, call 245-7253.

New Directions to Hope classes offered for teens

RED BLUFF -- New Directions to Hope will be offering four courses, beginning next week, to teenagers on how to manage anger.

Courses are held one night and week and run for eight weeks. Beginning Monday, boys ages 15 to 17 will meet from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. and boys ages 12 to 14 will meet from 4 to 5 p.m. Beginning Wednesday, girls ages 15 to 17 will meet from 2 to 3 p.m. and girls 12 to 14 will meet from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

The boys' courses finish Sept. 15. Girls finish up on Sept. 10. Courses are $20 for individual classes or $180 for the series. For more information or to register, call 529-0592.

Redding author to teach writing at Shasta College

Author Tony D'Souza will teach two sections of creative writing this fall at Shasta College.

Classes will meet Fridays; one from noon to 3:10 p.m. and the other from 3:30 to 6:40 p.m. D'Souza is the author of "Whiteman" and "The Konkans" and has written for The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire and Outside magazines.

For more information on the classes or to register, call 242-7650.