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THURSDAY APRIL 12, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A Breaking news at: Pastimes Photo Exhibit Opens Friday RED BLUFF A's Win in 12th SPORTS 1B Showers likely 57/40 Weather forecast 8B Special to the DN The Red Bluff Police Department is excited to announce the kickoff of a new volunteer program. "We have been planning and preparing to implement a Vol- 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 RBPD kicks off volunteer program to fill out staff unteers in Police Services (VIPS) Program for the past year and are now ready to begin seeking volunteers," said Capt. Kyle Sanders. Common in many police organizations, the VIPS pro- gram utilizes citizen volunteers to assist with many services that do not require a full-time officer to perform. Volunteers will be used to augment services that are typi- cally provided by civilian (non- sworn) personnel and may be used in a number of ways, including, but not limited to: clerical duties, traffic control and parking enforcement, com- munity patrol and business checks, community events, Little big class special events, Neighborhood Watch, equipment and vehicle maintenance, transportation of vehicles, assisting full-time staff with evidence processing See RBPD, page 7A Corning OKs 2-week well test By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — The City Council approved a contract addendum Tuesday with Geo Plus, Inc. of Anderson for a two-week test to see whether an inactive well is safe to reactivate. two wells the city took off line in the 1990s due to a possible contaminant from the Dudley-Petty Truckstop site. The assessment is for the Petro Water Well A, one of approved at the March 27 meeting," said City Manager and Public Works Director John Brewer. At the March 27 meeting, the council voted to com- mit to an extension of city water lines to six properties in the unincorporated area whose wells were contami- "This is a separate condition from the other item See TEST, page 7A Rouse announces congressional bid Daily News photo by Chip Thompson Students in Linda McCay's Humanities Through Film class at Shasta College pose for a photo to pro- mote the sixth annual Heritage Film Festival Friday. Pictured, from left, are James Cook, Amy Gibbs, Brenda Heard Duncan, Janine Ripley, Natasha Rasmussen, Nathaniel Cook, Jessica Foss, Joshua Yount, Brittney LaFrentz, Colton Votaw-Dagen and Thurmond Franks. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Dustin Hoffman film Little Big Man will headline the Shasta Col- lege Humanities Through Film Class' sixth annual Heritage Film Festival Friday at the State Theatre, but guests will see much more than just a movie. "Years ago, when I was given this class, the Dean told me to think out- side the box," said teacher Linda McCay. "It was just a American/Euro- pean film history class." McCay said she likes to have stu- dent service learning as a piece of her classes and with a background in the- ater production, the festival was a nat- ural fit. "What we have done is grow out of the classroom and into the communi- ty," McCay said. "It's a chance to bring learning about the films into the community while providing a hands on activity for the students." The community support for the event, which McCay hopes will even- tually grow into a two- or three-day festival, has been terrific, she said. "If it wasn't for our sponsors, this Shasta College Education Foundation and Economic Workforce Develop- ment and the Tehama County Arts Council have been instrumental." The group will use the brand new screen the State Theatre For the Arts group has purchased through a grant, Ritter said. "We are excited about this event and we really want to brand it as a Round-Up event," Ritter said. Doors for the event open at 4 p.m. with lobby displays including a roping demonstration and Beverly Ogle, local author of "Whisper of the Maidu" and "Spirits of Black Rock." Ogle has been a member of the Tehama County Genealogical and Historical Society and is the contact for the Northern California Native Americans, her daughter, Brenda Hard said. down her memories for us children and then everyone wanted it," Hard said of "Whisper of the Maidu." The book is about memories of event would not be happening," stu- dent Elizabeth Ritter said. "Lassen Medical Group and Rabobank, the "It started out as Mom writing Group, is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. The film is a documentary by Rich-Heape Films, Inc. that exam- ines the history of healthcare for American Indians from the early 1800s to the Healthcare Reform Act of 2010. The gunfight will precede the screening of "Little Big Man" at about 6:30 p.m., Ritter said. The film, which debuted in the 1970s, stars Hoffman as Jack Crabb, who at 121 looks back on his youthful years of life in a wagon train, being rescued by a Native American and riding with Gen. George Custer. Tickets are $6 for those 13 and growing-up in the Mill Creek Canyon area as a member of the Plumas County-based Maidu tribe, she said. A screening of "Don't Get Sick After June: American Indian Health- care," sponsored by Lassen Medical Man busted with pot on Adobe Road Having 40 marijuana starter plants and about $8,000 in his car, a Fern- dale man was arrested Tuesday evening in Red Bluff. Tehama County Sher- iff's deputies stopped a 2008 Nissan just before 6 p.m. on Adobe Road near Interstate 5, logs said. A K-9 unit searched the outside of the vehi- cle, a sheriff's press release said. Then, the driver, Julian Leonard Henneberry, 25, of Fern- dale admitted he had 40 marijuana cloned starter plants in the trunk of his car that he had recently drove to the Bay area to sell his processed mari- juana. vehicle, deputies found several other controlled substances and about $8,000, the release said. Henneberry, also After searching the known as Julian Van Tran, was arrested on charges of cultivation of marijuana, possession of marijuana for sale, two counts of possession of narcotics and selling marijuana. Bail was set at $75,000. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 - Andrea Wagner There will be a variety of activities including music by North Fork Band and Kerry DeFonte throughout the evening including the recreation of a historical gunfight onstage by Law Dawgs and Pisteleros of the Olde West. By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Amid the hullabaloo of redistricting and retiring politicians, Charles Rouse, a Democrat from Corning, kicked off his campaign Wednesday for State Assembly District 3. Rouse is running against Republican candi- dates Tehama County Supervisor Bob Williams of Corning and incumbent of the former District 3, Dan Logue of Marysville. The district, redrawn in 2011, encompasses all of Tehama, Glenn, Sutter and Yuba counties and portions of Butte and Colusa counties. After moving to Rouse older, $3 ages 6-12 and free for 5 and younger. A dollar from each ticket will go to the State Theatre, at 333 Oak St. Tickets are available presale at Crossroads, Norm's Printing, Red Bluff Rabobank, Shasta College in Redding and Diamond W in Chico or at the door. for the job, he said. Tehama County in 1976, Rouse worked as a U.S. Postal Service rural mail carrier for 20 years in the Gerber area. governing experience, the 68-year-old candidate believes his life experi- ences have prepared him member of the United Steel Workers Union while working for Kaiser Steel, Rouse is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and a graduate of Occidental University. "My main purpose running for the California Assembly is to help the rural citizen regain their once-proud place in the workforce of the six coun- ties I am to represent," Rouse wrote in a press release. Rouse is director and vice president of the Corning Healthcare District, a non- profit public health pro- gram, and owns a 10-acre olive orchard. A former Although he has no His campaign promises he will work to create jobs, support benefits for seniors and veterans and improve the education system. In his campaign kick- off, Rouse met with a See BID, page 7A Cowboy star to perform Saturday By PAULA HOLDEN Special to the DN phey is coming to Red Bluff to help kick off the 11 Days of Round-Up. Murphey will be in concert one night only, Saturday, April 14, at the State Theatre for the Arts, 333 Oak St., in downtown Red Bluff. The event is sponsored by the Tehama County CattleWomen and Red Bluff Rotary, Sunrise. Murphey is America's Michael Martin Mur- No. 1 cowboy singer and songwriter with six gold records, three CMA award nominations and winner of Best Album and Song AWA, 2000, West- ern Music Hall of Fame inductee and five-time Cowboy Hall of Fame Photo courtesy of Michael Martin Murphey He is best known for his hit songs "Wildfire," "What's Forever For?," "Carolina in the Pines" Western Heritage Award Winner. and "Geronimo's Cadil- lac." His new hit CD is "Tall Grass & Cool Water." Murphey is also a reg- ular headline act at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nev., each year. He writes his own poetry and puts it to See STAR, page 7A