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We know why high quality care means so very much. Since 1944, Mercy Medical Center Redding has been privileged to serve area physicians and their patients. We dedicate our work to continuing the healing ministry of Jesus in far Northern California by offering services that meet the needs of the community. We do this while adhering to the highest standards of patient safety, clinical quality and gracious service. Together with our more than 1700 employees and almost 500 volunteers, we offer advanced care and technology in a beautiful setting overlooking the City. Mercy Medical Center Redding is recognized for offering high quality patient care, locally. Designation as Blue Distinction Centers means these facilities’ overall experience and aggregate data met objective criteria established in collaboration with expert clinicians’ and leading professional organizations’ recommendations. Individual outcomes may vary. To find out which services are covered under your policy at any facilities, please contact your health plan. Mercy Heart Center | Mercy Regional Cancer Center | Center for Hip & Knee Replacement Mercy Wound Healing & Hyperbaric Medicine Center | Area’s designated Trauma Center | Family Health Center | Maternity Services/Center Neonatal Intensive Care Unit | Shasta Senior Nutrition Programs | Golden Umbrella | Home Health and Hospice | Patient Services Centers (Lab Draw Stations) 2175 Rosaline Ave. Redding, CA 96001 | 530.225.6000 | www.mercy.org Mercy is part of the Catholic Healthcare West North State ministry. Sister facilities in the North State are St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff and Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta in Mt. Shasta Welcome to the www.packersbay.com Shasta Lake area Clear, crisp air, superb fi shing, friendly people, beautiful scenery – these are just a few of the words used to describe the Shasta Lake area. We hope you will be here long enough to enjoy the sights and get a feel for the area. Located just north of Redding in northern California, the region is one of nature’s true beauties, with many interesting sights to see and things to do. The area has been protected and remains relatively unspoiled for the nature lover. We hope you enjoy your stay with us, taking advantage of the surroundings and leaving with pleasant memories of the time you spent here. This Visitors Guide is produced by the Shasta Lake Bulletin, P.O. Box 8025, 4138 Ashby Court, Shasta Lake CA 96019. Telephone (530) 275-1716. Fax (530) 275- 1699, email [email protected]. Editor - Ron Harrington. Our Web site, where the Shasta Lake Visitors Guide can be found all year long, is at www.shastalake.ws. Packers Bay Marina Cover photo credits: Three Shastas - Courtesy of the Bureau of Reclamation; Luxury Houseboat Vacations Dog Creek - Michael Burke; Wakeboarder Kevin Martinez, 18, of Redding - Michael Burke; Canada Geese - Rita Dressel; City Clock - Courtesy of the City of Shasta Lake; Miners from Kimberly next to train - Courtesy of the Shasta Lake 800-331-3137 Heritage & Historical Society. SUMMER 2010 • SHASTA LAKE BULLETIN VISITORS GUIDE • PAGE 3 Grandeur of dam returns after taking tour By Jim Dyar The grandeur of Shasta Dam can dim just a bit when you live in the north state a long time. Yeah, it’s the crown jewel of the Central Valley Water Project. Sure, it’s the second largest concrete dam in the United States. It generates electricity. Got it. What’s the lake level again? But the grandeur returns after taking a tour of the dam. The experience helps a person stop for a moment and truly refl ect on the signifi cance and scale of Shasta Dam. It’s nothing short of astonishing what 4,700 workers accomplished over a seven-year period from 1938 to 1945. Shasta Dam, along with Hoover Dam, changed the entire face of the Western United States. California became the breadbasket for the country largely because of the water storage of Shasta Lake. the agency to educate people about the During the tour, the statistics begin to entire spectrum of purposes of Shasta penetrate your consciousness in a way Dam. they never do when you’re simply driving “Most folks come in with their own past. The dam is an astonishing 883 feet perception of what Shasta Dam does,” thick at its base and as tall as a 60-story said Tami Corn, public affairs assistant skyscraper. It weighs (get this) 30 billion for the Bureau of Reclamation. “But it pounds (or 15 million tons). really is so complex. There’s the recre- One could compare the accomplish- ational side, agriculture, drinking water, ment of Shasta Dam to the great Egyp- wildlife, power. Hopefully we educated tian pyramids, except the pyramids don’t folks about just how complex the whole provide fl ood control, supply water for picture is.” the world’s fi fth largest economy, create The long walk across the dam gives a massive recreational reservoir and you a chance to sightsee on both sides generate enough power to light 700,000 of the massive structure. To the north dwellings. sits the blue expanse of Shasta Lake And the tours of Shasta Dam are and the huge white fang of Mt. Shasta. free. From Memorial Day weekend to To the south, it’s the Sacramento Valley. PHOTO / Jim Dyar Labor Day, they happen six times a day, But no one can pass up a chance to peer seven days a week. Tours are limited to over the edge at the severe angle of the Above, a view of the dam from the base. 40 people and they start at 9 a.m., 10:15, face of the dam. I’m sure I’m not the fi rst the dam. It won’t be completely fi nished white tapestry of water flowing down 11:30, 1 p.m., 2:15 and 3:30. person to think, “Could I survive sliding for another few decades. The structure the face. A lawn courtyard with round You pick up ticket at the Shasta Dam down that thing?” becomes its most solid self 100 years portholes in the concrete walls recalled Visitor Center and walk out to the center Attendees must pass through a secu- after its completion. an aesthetic from a forgotten era. I felt of the dam to begin the tour. A longtime rity scanner to begin their tour. Security The dam is designed to withstand an like I was walking through a 1950s sepia Redding resident, it was my fi rst tour of has been upgraded considerably since 8.5 magnitude earthquake, but one gets educational fi lm. the dam. 9/11. No bags of any kind (including the feeling it would take a lot more than To the west, the fi ve large (15 feet in “We have people all the time say, ‘I purses) are allowed and don’t plan to that to alter the thing. diameter) penstock pipes lead into the took a tour when I was 7 and now I’m bring even a pocketknife. It’s always 65 degrees inside the Shasta Power Plant. Inside the power bringing my kids here,’” said Mino Ander- After a short introduction, your group dam, which can feel pretty nice during plant, the deep rumble of the turbines son, who has been leading Shasta Dam takes a large elevator down 428 feet into one of Redding’s hot summers. provides a sense of the force of water tours for fi ve years. “Or, ‘I’ve driven up the heart of the dam. The visitor gallery is A long hallway (which has an incred- moving through and turning the turbine and down I-5 a million times and I fi nally green tile walls and green granite fl ooring ible echo effect) leads to a windowed blades. The water travels down the tube decided to come over.’” that harkens a foregone era. conference room, where Anderson dis- at 75 miles an hour and the plant is The Bureau of Reclamation estimates Anderson imparts dozens of details cusses the history of the project amid capable of generating 710 megawatts that some 50,000 people take the tour about the dam, including the fact that a mural, photos and a miniature model of power, or enough to power 700,000 each year. It’s a good opportunity for the concrete is actually still curing inside of the dam. The Sacramento River was homes. The power is sold to the Western actually diverted through a railroad tunnel Power Grid. as the middle portion of the dam was When the tour was over, I stood with built up. Anderson atop the dam and watched as Of the some 4,700 men who worked an osprey sailed just above our heads. on the project, 14 died. And although There are nests located on several it’s probably the most frequently asked towers around the dam. question, the answer is, no -- none of She has lead several hundred tours the men are buried within the concrete over the years. of the dam. “There’s always certain types of infor- Gravel that was used to make con- mation I want to get out,” she says, while crete traveled along a 9.6-mile conveyor adding that it’s never quite the same belt to reach the dam site. The starting speech every time. point for that conveyor belt is where Does she still enjoy it? Turtle Bay Exploration Park in Redding “Oh, yeah, I love the people.” PHOTO / Jon Lewis stands today. And, when one considers the Above, do I hear an echo? Take the dam tour and you’ll fi nd out as your It’s a pleasure to emerge at the base immense signifi cance of Shasta Dam, fi rst stop is 43 stories down to the visitors’ echo gallery.