Last week I featured Redding’s newest church. At least I think it was the newest. This one is our oldest, I think. A difference of 115 years.
Here we see PG&E starting the pilot light on the heater for the coming winter. I found it surprisingly bright inside, illuminated by natural light.
There was an article in redding.com about the intention to move the church to make way for development. But not enough money was raised, and the idea has languished. Given the current glut of vacant commercial property in town, perhaps the church will be spared for a while longer. I couldn’t find anything about the current congregation on the web. When it was built, it was the Zion African Methodist-Episcopal church. There were churches built in Redding prior to this one. Most were larger, but all were burnt or demolished. Only this humble testament to faith remains.
New trailhead on Clear Creek looks totally inviting
One of Redding's newest churches
Risen King Church on Oasis road across from Gold Hills is one of the newest church buildings in town. Maybe the very newest in fact. Looks like these folks moved here in June from a building on Mistletoe. It’s lovely building, and today it beckoned me stop as I drove by. I need to photograph this. What a nice day, and the building looks terrific.
This Baptist Church appears to be very web-friendly. They have a large site HERE, and at the The Stirring, whose car stickers you see around town. At their website, I watched an interesting online video of baptisms in Whiskeytown Lake.
Really Redding.
Big Bike Weekend coming -Also Big Bike Drags
As web dude for the Redding Dragstrip, I sometimes give the illusion of being able to generate graphic art. Dragstrip president Bob Lidell asked me to “whip up” a poster for the big event at the Redding Dragstrip. Saturday looks like big fun, and Sunday has bracket racers all day. If you are a biker in town looking for the action, you can find it at the Dragstrip on Saturday and Sunday for just $10 to get in all day. It’s bound to be a spectacle. Anyway this was my poster effort, after much swearing. Print is not the same as web graphics.
Redding flag at half mast for firefighters
With thanks for the tip and video to owner-builder Ken Swanson and special thanks to the Enterprise Lions Club for our proud community flag. Godspeed, all firefighters.
“Today is National Fallen Firefighters Day, the first Sunday of the month of October.The Enterprise Lions proudly lower the I-5 Flag to half staff in honor of all those who gave their lives in service. And the families of the fallen ones who live with loss. Bless all of you who know one or more, of these fine American hero’s. Enterprise Lion, Ken Swanson.”
I believe Carl would approve
Not Really Redding, but I just had to share in case you haven’t seen this.
I stumbled on this looking around YouTube from the last post about our music video. Finally an artistic use for the voice transposing software so often abused to moronic cliche by recent Hip Hop artistes. On reflection, I find that I miss Carl Sagan greatly. He was one of a kind. His voice lives on.
Our YouTube video approaches 12,000 views
Craig Padilla put up a video we made while recording some music in the studio a while back, and it’s been viewed 11,800 times since he put it up. That’s kind of fun to think about.
But there’s an oddity about the viewership. Craig divided the whole video piece into 4 parts. The first segment has garnered over 11,000 views, but the second part drops to 7,159 views. Okay, it’s not your thing, so about 4600 people chose not to watch the second segment, which had only 7159 views. But then about 3400 people skip over the the 3rd segment for total views of 10,615. Huh? Then it drops down to 8283 for the 4th and final segment. Just odd. So maybe 7,159 people watched all 4 segments? Who knows. Anyway interesting to think about our many viewers. Although not exactly viral, we had no idea it would reach so many. What would life be like without YouTube? Thanks to all viewers!