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ORLAND Visit any U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District recre- ation park May 16, includ- ing Black Butte Lake be- tween Orland and Corn- ing, to exchange your old or damaged life jacket for a new Coast Guard-ap- proved one. The Corps is partner- ing with the California De- partment of Boating and Waterways for the 16th Annual Life Jacket Trade- In, allowing visitors to get their life jackets inspected by safety professionals and get a new one for free if they find any deficiencies. "It's great to see every- one wearing a life jacket while boating at our parks. But all too often they are very old or don't fit cor- rectly and that can be dan- gerous too," said Jonathan Friedman, senior district park ranger. "If you're go- ing to spend any time on the water this summer, the easiest way to stay safe is to make sure your life jacket is good to go." This event is being con- ducted in coordination with National Safe Boat- ing Week, which height- ens awareness among rec- reational boaters about the importance of always wearing a life jacket and the options available for staying safe during a va- riety of water activates by wearing new modern vari- ations of the life jacket. All 10 Sacramento Dis- trict recreation parks will be participating in the May 16 trade-in event, and a list of parks can be found at http://www.spk. usace.army.mil/Locations/ SacramentoDistrictParks. aspx. For a full list of other participating locations across the state check out http://www.dbw.ca.gov/ BoaterInfo/LifeJacketTra- deIn.aspx. WATER SAFETY Exchange your old life jacket at Black Butte Lake An item on page A7 in Friday's edition requires clarification. The Back to School Project will be ac- cepting applications noon to 6 p.m. Monday, June 8 and Tuesday, June 9 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 10 at the Crystal Mo- tel Complex, Ste. L, 333 S. Main St. in Red Bluff. The annual shopping day is scheduled for later in the summer. Itisthepolicyofthe Daily News to correct as quickly as possible all errors in fact that have been published in the newspaper. If you believe a factual error has been made in a news story, call 737-5042. CORRECTION Rapley:BarbaraGailRa- pley, 59, of Red Bluff died Thursday, May 14at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Saturday, May 16, 2015in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Zinniger: Theodore "Ted" C. Zinniger, of Red Bluff, died Thursday, May 14at Mercy Medical Center in Redding. Arrangements are under the direction of Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service. Published Saturday, May 16, 2015in the Daily News, Red Bluff, California. Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the deceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be of any length, may run multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. DEATH NOTICES At the May 12 Tehama County Board of Super- visors meeting Executive Director Brian Heese ac- cepted a proclamation in honor of the 50th anniver- sary. "As Executive Direc- tor of NCCDI, I have seen first hand how Head Start's complete approach to high- quality early learning has been life-changing for chil- dren and families in Te- hama County," Heese said. "As we recognize this mile- stone, Head Start contin- ues to work to ensure that every child, regardless of circumstances at birth, has an opportunity to succeed." Martha Dixson, whose son Monty attends Happy Trails on Antelope Boule- vard, can attest to the dif- ference it has made not just in her son's life, but in hers, she said. "I love head start," Dix- son said. "They have had a great impact on our fam- ily. They have encouraged me to go back to school. In one year my son, who didn't know how to write his name, can not only write Monty, but Montgom- ery Dixson." Considering the length of the name, this is quite a feat, she said. "We are an early child- hood education program for lower income fami- lies," Robertson said. "All of our services are family oriented and we offer free family events and train- ing to all families partic- ipating in our programs, including conferences, no or low cost counseling ser- vices and specialized ser- vices for children with dis- abilities." There are nine centers in Tehama County with two early Head Start cen- ters providing services for pregnant women and children ages six weeks to three years with services available both on-site and in home visitations and seven head start centers for ages three to five years old. As of the 2014-2015 year, there are 345 children en- rolled in Tehama County with more than 110,000 children served annually in California. It is estimated about 32 million children have been helped nation- wide since the program started. "Our Head Start pro- grams are accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children," Robertson said. "We strive to not only have children academically pre- pared, but also socially, emotionally and physi- cally ready. Our nationally accredited classrooms op- erate under the philosophy that all children have the right to learn in the least restrictive environment." Helping the children be ready is not just working with the children, but cre- ating a partnership with the parents as well, she said. "While we are with these children for a rela- tively short period of time, the parents and guard- ians are with them for a lifetime," Robertson said. "Therefore, it is impor- tant that we not only pre- pare children, but parents as well. We believe there are many important fac- tors to a child's success in school, but none more im- portant than a parent who is involved in their child's education. We work with parents individually to de- velop goals for themselves and their families that is going to give them the best opportunity to pro- vide their children with the best future." Two unique programs within the organization's system are particularly im- portant to success, Robert- son said. First, the centers have a family advocate who part- ners directly with the fam- ilies to support school read- iness and healthy develop- ment from recruitment to transitioning from Early Head Start to Head Start. The second is the inclu- sion programs, which pro- vide full and active partic- ipation for children with disabilities and other spe- cial needs. Another unusual part of the program is the families, who have donated 54,000 hours to the community during the school year, Rob- ertson said. In celebration of 50 years, each site will plant a rose- bush in honor of Johnson's announcement being made in the White House Rose Garden, she said. The ceremonial plant- ings, which the public is in- vited to, will take place at 12:20 p.m. Monday at 415 Antelope Blvd., 225 Jack- son St., 645 Antelope Blvd. and 401 Chestnut Ave. in Red Bluff; 617 Fig Lane, 561 Edith Ave. and 900 West St. in Corning and in Tehama at 650 Third St. Start FROM PAGE 1 The shooter is described as a white man, about 35 to 40 years old, 6 feet tall and thin with short black hair and black stubble with pos- sibly a week's worth of fa- cial hair. Anyone who may have been at the Iron Canyon Trail Head or in the area of the trail head between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. May 16, 2014, is asked to call Detec- tive Jeff Garrett at 530-529- 7920, ext. 3032, or Tehama County Sheriff's dispatch- ers at 530-529-7900. The Iron Canyon Trail Head is about five miles north on SR 36E from SR 99E in Red Bluff. Anyone who has seen or recognizes a person who matches the descrip- tion of the shooter is also urged to contact the au- thorities. The Tehama County Secret Witness Program is offering a reward for the arrest and subsequent prosecution and convic- tion of potential suspects involved in the incident, according to the release. The secret witness pro- gram can be reached at 530-529-1268, and callers can remain anonymous. Shooting FROM PAGE 1 As the officer entered the off-ramp, he steered to the left in an attempt to avoid a collision, caus- ing the patrol vehicle to go off the embankment, hit the guard rail and roll over into Oat Creek, rest- ing on its roof. The officer, who re- ceived minor injuries, was able to get himself out of the patrol vehicle, but Hasty, who was yet to be identified at the time, fled the scene immediately af- ter the incident. Hasty came into the Redding CHP office to make a report regard- ing a stolen vehicle and through investigation was identified as the driver of the Volvo, ac- cording to the Redding CHP spokesman. He had moderate injuries from the collision. Hasty was booked into Tehama County Jail on the felony charge of evad- ing a peace officer: disre- gard for safety and the misdemeanor charges of hit and run, perjury and false report of crime. Bail was set at $71,000. CHP FROM PAGE 1 Find us online! By Dee-Ann Durbin The Associated Press MOUNTAIN VIEW The lat- est version of Google's self- driving car — a pod-like two-seater that needs no gas pedal or steering wheel — will make its debut on public roads this summer, a signif- icant step in the technology giant's mission to have driv- erless cars available to con- sumers in the next five years. This prototype is the first vehicle built from scratch for the purpose of self-driving, Google says. It looks like a Smart car with a shiny black bowler hat to hide its sen- sors, and it can drive, brake and recognize road hazards without human interven- tion. It has more capabilities than the prototype Google introduced last May, which was so rudimentary it had fake headlights. The new pod isn't de- signed for a long trip, or a joyride. It lacks air bags and other federally required safety features, so it can't go more than 25 miles per hour. It's electric, and has to be re- charged after 80 miles. And the pod can only drive in areas that have been thor- oughly mapped by Google. At first, it will likely even have a steering wheel and gas pedal — current Cali- fornia regulations require them. Those regulations also require a driver to be able to take back control of the car at any time. But Google is lobbying for more flexible regulations. Google will initially build and test 25 pods, mostly in neighborhoods surround- ing its Mountain View headquarters. It will even- tually build between 50 and 100, and will broaden test- ing to sites that are hillier and rainier. The ultimate goal, says Google co-founder Sergey Brin, is computer-controlled cars that can eliminate hu- man error, which is a fac- tor in an estimated 90 per- cent of the 1.2 million road deaths that occur worldwide each year. Self-driving cars could also improve traffic congestion and transport the elderly and disabled. Google shocked the auto industry in 2010 with its announcement that it was working on a driverless car. Brin insists Google doesn't aspire to be a car company, but wants its technology to be adopted by automakers. "We want to partner to bring self-driving to all the vehicles in the world," Brin told a group of journalists and community members gathered earlier this week to take rides in the prototype. For now the traditional automakers are pursuing their own self-driving tech- nology, but with less ambi- tious timeline of 10 to 15 years for a truly driverless car. Chris Urmson, who di- rects Google's self-driving car project, says the slow- moving, friendly looking prototype — his young son thinks it looks like a koala because of the nose-like black laser on the front — is a good bridge between the company's current test fleet of 20 specially outfit- ted Lexus SUVs and the more advanced, higher- speed driverless cars of its future, which might not even look like anything on the road today. "This vehicle is really all about us learning. This ve- hicle could go on a freeway, but when we think about introducing the technol- ogy, we want to do that very thoughtfully and very safely," Urmson says. Convincing drivers that driverless technology is safe is one of the hurdles the company must over- come. Earlier this week, in response to questions from The Associated Press, Google acknowledged 11 minor accidents in the six years it has been testing autonomous cars. Urmson says the company is proud of that record, and notes that Google's vehicles have completed more than 1.7 million miles of testing. He says all but one of the acci- dents were caused by driv- ers in other cars; in the only incident caused by a Google car, a staffer was driving in manual mode. Consumers question whether they can trust self- driving cars to work all the time, who will be liable if there's an accident and how self-driving cars will inter- act with regular cars, says the consulting firm J.D. Power and Associates. In a 2013 survey of U.S. drivers, J.D. Power found only one in five was interested in a fully autonomous car. UrmsonsaysGoogleneeds to do a better job of educat- ing people about self-driv- ing technology and updat- ing them on Google's prog- ress. It's building a Web site to teach people about the technology, and the site will featureamonthlyreportthat will include details of any accidents involving Google cars. The site will also have a section where people can send feedback when they in- teract with the cars. The prototype cars — as- sembled in suburban Detroit by Roush Industries — have the same array of radars, la- sers and cameras as Google's fleet of Lexus SUVs, which allows them to share data. If one car's camera spots or- ange cones and construction signs, for example, it will alert all the others to slow down in that area or reroute around a lane closure. Dmitri Dolgov, the head of software for the self- driving car project, says Google's software has got- ten much better over the last year at classifying ob- jects, like trees and mail- boxes, and predicting be- havior of pedestrians and other cars. For example, Google's cars will slow down if they sense that a car in the next lane is speeding up to cut in front of them. And in one recent test, a Google car paused when a cyclist ran a red light. Another car, driven by a human, went ahead and nearly hit the cyclist. 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