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TUESDAY OCTOBER 18, 2011 Breaking news at: Women in Business Special Section www.redbluffdailynews.com See Inside RED BLUFF Harbaugh's handshake SPORTS 1B Sunny 84/56 Weather forecast 8B DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Occupy Red Bluff Argument leads to shooting, arrest By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A 27-year-old Red Bluff man was shot at in front of his residence just before midnight Saturday in the 900 block of Monroe Street by a man he had been in a confrontation with earlier. No one was hurt, but one man, Christopher Alan Long, 27, of Red Bluff, was arrested. Red Bluff Police received report of a single gunshot fired at 11:41 p.m., however, upon their arrival, Long was not there. The man told police that Long had followed him to his residence after they had been in a brief confrontation at Cir- cle K on South Jackson St., Detective Kevin Hale said. Long then began circling the man's residence multiple times before parking in front of it and yelling at him and sev- eral witnesses, a Red Bluff Police release said. As the man approached Long's vehicle, Long shot at the victim, missing him, but hitting his residence before. Long fled the area and was later located on Sunday by Red Bluff Police at his residence and detained. A probation search of Long's residence turned up evi- dence related to the shooting and paraphernalia for smoking a controlled substance. After giving police a statement, Long was booked into the Tehama County Jail on charges of attempted homicide and possession of drug paraphernalia with bail set at $503,000. Any witnesses to this crime who have not yet provided a statement are requested to contact the Red Bluff Police Department at 527-3131. Man arrested for DUI after brother injured By JULIE ZEEB Daily News photo by Tang Lor Judy Turner, of Corning, and other protesters participate in the ongoing Occupy Wall Street movement by having their own Occupy Red Bluff protest outside Bank of America. By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer For the past 50-plus years Judy Turner has been a customer at Bank of America. Her checking and savings, home mortgage and all together at least eight accounts are with the bank. Being a loyal customer, she and her husband continued to stay with Bank of America even after family members and friends, unhappy about the corporate beast, left the bank and encouraged them to do the same, she said. Then came an announcement from the bank that finally made her change her mind. In late September, Bank of America announced it would start charging a $5 monthly debit card fee next year. "Boy am I tired of these guys," Turner said. "I'm just so tired of all the corporate greed." She is not the only one, as people in communities across the nation, and globally, are taking part in the ongoing Occupy Wall Street move- ment. Exactly one month after the first protest started Sept. 17 on Wall Street in New York City, the move- ment has finally made its way to "Boy am I tired of these guys. I'm just so tired of all the corporate greed." —Judy Turner Tehama County. By participants' estimates, a crowd of about 30 or so people protested Monday in the first orga- nized Occupy Red Bluff movement outside Bank of America on Main Street. Though there was no real leader or organization behind the group, Sarah Bower served as the unoffi- cial coordinator. Many of the pro- testers showed up having heard See OCCUPY, page 7A DN Staff Writer A Red Bluff man was arrested on suspicion of DUI Sun- day morning after his brother received major injuries from a fall out of the truck he was driving on Hogsback Road. Jessie Damante, 30, of Red Bluff was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with major injuries following the incident, said California Highway Patrol Officer Ken Reine- man. He had been sitting in the bed of the toolbox area of the truck, which his brother, Jamie Paul Damante-Lindt, 28, was driving, Reineman said. Damante-Lindt was going east on Hogsback, east of Tus- can Springs Road, about 5 mph at 2:50 a.m. Sunday when he hit a bump in the road that caused Damante to fall out of the truck, hitting his head. Red Bluff Police logs show a traffic stop at Main and Sycamore streets for DUI connected to an incident about 3 a.m. where a man fell from the vehicle on Hogsback Road and that CHP had one person arrested at 4:18 a.m. Logs show a second arrest at 4:33 a.m. Damante-Lindt was booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of DUI: alcohol or drugs resulting in bodily injury and DUI: 0.08 percent blood alcohol content: result- ing in bodily injury. Bail was set at $150,000. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. ARed Bluff legend passes away BY JOHN CLAYSON SPENCER Special to the DN It was a very warm, late September morning in 1960 and I had just signed on at the Red Bluff Police Depart- ment as a new officer. I was assigned the duty that morn- ing to take complaint reports to the Tehama County Dis- trict Attorney's office at the courthouse. At the DA's office I sat down in front of the desk and handed the DA some domestic violence arrest reports. He appeared to be a bit grumpy after reading the reports, indicating in a dis- gruntled manner that evi- dence was lacking. He chewed me up and down, then looked at me curiously and said, "Oh, who are you?" He then apologized, and we made introductions. That is how I first met Earl F. Hedlund. Over time, since that first meeting, Earl and I became good friends. Through the years we fished the rivers side by side, exchanging friendly lies, gestures, envy and all things that go with comradeship among anglers. During our many shad fishing times below the Red Bluff Diversion Dam, Earl would try to catch and har- vest the female shad. A gourmet cook, he would prepare shad roe feasts and invite all the smelly anglers he fished with to dinner, exposing us to new tastes in life. When everyone was fish- ing for shad, Dr. Bill Weirich, another angler, once spread the word that the roe is an aphrodisiac. This resulted in an immedi- ate demand among anglers on the riffle. This was a time way before Viagra. Whether true or not, shad roe became popular, for a while anyway. Shad fishing in early sum- mer was one of the joys Earl loved so much about the Sacramento River. Then there was steelhead 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 fishing in the fall and winter. Earl became a good and persistent steelhead angler. I remember one cold and windy day in November 1971, Earl—all bundled up in winter attire—met me in front of Bob's Sport Shop on Main Street in Red Bluff. He produced a huge male steel- head of about 12 pounds. Wow, everyone was in awe. What a fish, the largest I had seen taken out of the Sacra- mento River. I still have a picture of that fish. He caught it on the famous Lourance riffle, up above Jelly's Ferry Bridge. There was little room and lots of brush hazards down- stream at that site—a diffi- cult place to land such a fish, especially in a cold wind. For Earl, that was a most glorious moment. No doubt he rightfully earned the pride of catching the biggest steelhead that season. To say the least, it was the truest battle between Earl and the fish, like Spencer Tracy in Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." A time never to be forgotten. As years went on, Earl would expand his lust for steelhead by venturing up and down the North Coast. On occasions he would join me in steelhead fishing on the Klamath River. He'd drive up to Yreka in that noisy old 911 Porsche he called Rachel. We would have breakfast at Grand- ma's, then hit the river, usu- See LEGEND, page 7A Courtesy photo by John Clayson Spencer Above, former Tehama County District Attorney Earl Hedlund in 1971 show- ing the beautiful 12-pound steelhead he caught on the Laurence Riffle near the Bend and Jelly's Ferry bridge on the Sacramento River, just north of Red Bluff. Below, Hedlund on the Perry Riffle. HAVOC WITH YOUR SOCKS? toenails WREAKING Are your COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR PODIATRY CENTER AEROFEET Painless Topical Treatment THAT REALLY WORKS. Treat your neglected nails and cracked heels with our at home SPA EXPERIENCE. Call today for an appointment (530)527-7584 Smog Inspection $ 2595 + cert. (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) Pass or FREE retest 195 S. 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