VOLUME 4 • NUMBER 2 February 25, 2005 - March 24, 2005 FUN FUN &Travel Travel Your source to the most popular Recreation destinations in Northern California New Clairvaux Abbey . p g. 2 Mt. Shasta Motorcycle Run . p g. 6 Snowmobiling . pg. 10 ALWAYS INSIDE FUN & Travel • Casinos • Restaurants • Travel Destinations • Recreational Vehicles (RV) A publication of Northern California Newspapers BY C. JEROME CROW Red Bluff Daily News: Staff Writer VINA — As the Abbey of New Clairvaux begins monks, the same order as the monks in Vina. “In anticipation of the Abbey’s Jubilee Year in it’s celebration of fifty years in the north state, work Newspaper publishing giant William Randolph 2005, we prepare for the next milestone,” said Abbot on a new facility using centuries-old stones from a Hearst had the monastery dismantled and shipped to Thomas X. Davis. “During the second building Spanish monastery is well underway. the United States with plans to incorporate the phase, we’ll undertake construction of the chapter By the end of November, work on the foundation, stones into a lavish vacation home/medieval muse- house interior, atrium, entryway, walkways and roof and outer shell of the new chapter house had um near Mt. Shasta. However, after running into parking areas.” reached significant milestones and the first of the financial problems, Hearst sold the stones to the The chapter house will be part of a complex that sacred stones had been set in place. Three windows City of San Francisco and they were placed in will eventually include an archival library, pastoral featuring the stones had been installed and a lime- Golden Gate Park for the next fifty years becoming center and a new church. The chapter house and its stone veneer was in the process of being applied to the victims to vandalism and theft. cloister will be used for their original purpose, chap- the chapter house shell. After much work, the abbey secured the stones in ter meetings or daily reading from the chapters of The project has been a decades-long one for 1994 and they have since been stored in old brandy the Rules of St. Benedict, community gatherings, Abbot Thomas X. Davis. Davis said his passion to barns where expert stone masons have been working receptions of new members and for public tours. see the stones brought to Vina started when he first to prepare them for reconstruction. The monks have set up a workshop on the arrived to begin his assignment at the new In the 1980s, an art historian surveyed the stones monastery grounds and employ two full-time master monastery. On his way to Vina he stopped over in and discovered that they were salvageable, although stonemasons and other professional experts and have the Bay Area and saw the stones languishing in most of the original markings that provided the purchased matching limestone to replace missing or Golden Gate Park and felt that they needed to come codes to reconstruct the chapter house were damaged stones. While required to meet today’s home. destroyed. basic construction and seismic codes, the abbot says “One of my escorts pointed to a pile of rocks and Plans are to reconstruct the chapter house as close that the project aims to stay true to the tenants of said there is a Cistercian monastery, and I knew it as possible to the original work of their brothers 800 Cistercian spirituality and architecture. had to come to Vina with me,” Davis said. years ago. When completed it will be the only In September of 2001, just days after the 9/11 The stones had originally been part of a Spanish example of Gothic Cistercian architecture in the attacks, a small group gathered at the abbey for a monastery, Santa Maria de Ovila, built by Cistercian country. celebration and blessing of the stones in what many 2 FEBRUARY 25, 2005 - MARCH 24, 2005 FUN & Travel — A publication of Northern California Newspapers later would say became “an oasis from the outside world.” The occasion also marked the 46th Anniversary of Davis arriv- Serving Our Community... ing at the abbey. Work began in earnest thereafter in cutting and B G N shipping the stones utilizing an enormous customized saw that the 15 56 44 O Abbey brought over from Europe enabling master stonemason BINGO 75 Oskar Kempf and Ross Luthard to do the seemingly impossible. Funding for the restoration is being done largely by donations EVERY THURSDAY I from generous benefactors from around the country. The monks 21 are used to working hard and making do with what they have, so NIGHT! fund raising isn’t something that comes naturally to them. The sacred stone project has been a topic of a PBS documentary OVER Receptions Anniversaries and a campaign to raise funds for the project has garnered several Conferences large donations from around the world. The monks have even ven- $ Retirement & Birthday Parties tured into cyberspace establishing a Web site, 33,0003,000,000 www.sacredstones.org. Catering Available for Those interested in contributing to the project can contact Sandy Goulart, campaign coordinator at (530) 839-2243 or IN PAYOUTS Finger Foods & Complete Dinners [email protected] The Abbey of New Clairvaux was founded in 1955 when the DOORS OPEN 4:30PM FOR RESERVATIONS... Trappist-Cistercian monks of Gethsemani Abbey in Kentucky SNACK BAR OPENS 5-9PM acquired property formally owned by Peter Lassen and Leland REGULAR GAMES START AT 6:30PM 342-1633 Stanford, the great railroad baron and the namesake of Stanford University. The Abbey of New Clairvaux is located at 7th and C Streets. A large white cross marks the entryway. A visitor center and chapel are open to the public. EAGLES HALL More information is available at www.newclairvaux.org. E. 20th & Mulberry St. • 342-1633 FUN & Travel — A publication of Northern California Newspapers FEBRUARY 25, 2005 - MARCH 24, 2005 3 ;<A A< 7B:= <; A52 /.;1D.4<; /BA 161 F<B 8;<D A5.A ½3B;¾ 6@ 0<:=92A29F 0.?/ 3?22, Kpjo!vt!gps!uif!ebz///ps!uif!xfflfoe/!Jo!beejujpo!up!23!hbnjoh!ubcmft-!bnpoh!tpnf! 884! tmpu! nbdijoft! bsf! 51! nvmuj.efopnjobujpo! tmpu! nbdijoft/! Uifz! jodmvef! tfwfsbm!! gjwf.mjof! boe! gpvs.sffm! nfdibojdbm! tmpu! nbdijoft/! 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The ride ends in Dunsmuir, a historic railroad theme in Siskiyou County rides, where riders will foot Mt. Shasta rising out of the valley, a selection town on the banks of the Upper Sacramento River, encounter very few stoplights in small rural towns of great rides and the city of Yreka that is catering where a barbeque, live-entertainment and vendors and little traffic as they ride the valleys and river to riders. will help wrap up the day’s ride. canyons. The Yreka Chamber of Commerce can offer plenty of information about where to ride, Siskiyou County is home to Mount Shasta, a Yreka’s hospitality extends well beyond the annu- great dining establishments and historic attractions glacier-covered mountain that stands alone over the al event. The town boasts that it is biker friendly and like the gold rush display at the county courthouse. Shasta Valley. While the twin-peaked mountain invites riders to explore its back roads and in-town The Chamber’s executive director is a long time demands attention, the rivers, pastoral valleys and attractions.