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FRIDAY MAY 25, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5B Breaking news at: RED BLUFF Golden Gate at 75 Years SOAR results SPORTS 1B showers Few 71/53 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 Teen charged in restaurant burglary was pulled from grass on the river's edge by a police K- 9 just before midnight Wednesday night. Red Bluff Police officers, responding to a burglar alarm, spotted the boy running from the back door of the closed Riverside Bar & Grill, at 500 Riverside Way, said a police press release. Inside the business, which had been broken into, equipment in the restaurant and bar were damaged. No other suspects were found, the release said. Officers, calling in the help of Tehama County Sher- A 16-year-old Red Bluff boy, a burglary suspect, The area had dense plant growth, between six and eight feet tall, and officers deemed it unsafe and impractical due to limited personnel to go into the veg- etation, the release said. Instead, they called in the See TEEN, page 7A Candidates turn out to forum By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Candidates took the stage for the 2012 Tehama County Farm Bureau Candidates Forum Wednesday night at the Veterans Memorial Hall in Red Bluff. graduate of Red Bluff High School, returned to the county after college, he said. He spent 23 years as a small business owner and 36 years working in local government agen- cies. Campaigning for the June 5 election, nearly every candidate attended for each race. given three minutes for opening remarks and equal time to answer each question. At the end of the questions, candidates were given a chance to give two-minute closing remarks. Each candidate was He retired before com- mitting to run for supervi- sor to make sure he had the time to give to the job, he said. He vowed to meet with and work for all of the people in Tehama County. District 1 Supervisor candidates Steve Cham- blin, Roger Cox and Greg Latourell spoke first. The winner in the elec- tion will replace Supervi- sor Gregg Avilla, who is not running. moved to the area about a year ago, he said. He sug- gested prisons cut salaries and send the resulting savings to the counties to pay for the realignment. Although admittedly Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Michael Yingling, a fifth-grader at Antelope Elementary School, is hosed down Thursday by Red Bluff Fire Reserve Engineer David Griffiths while playing a victim exposed to sodium chlorate for a disaster drill run by the Tehama County Emergency Operations at Diamond Park. Cox, a local physician, By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Park Thursday just after 1 p.m., when 27 children were exposed to debris from a derailed train, but Tehama County emergency personnel were at the scene quickly taking control. Mock disaster struck and chaos ensued at Diamond inexperienced in politics, Cox asserted that he is responsible and would work to protect the rights of Tehama County. Unfamiliar with the The three candidates were asked about their views on the proposed work farm for realigned prison inmates, the Williamson Act and find- ing money in the budget for road repairs. Chamblin, a 1970 county's work farm pro- posal, Cox suggested that those incarcerated who need a job in prison pay for their room and board. As for fixing the roads, Cox said to put the inmates that the state is See FORUM, page 7A was used Thursday for a training exercise, the finale to a California Emergency Management Agency (CalEMA) training for Tehama County Emergency Operations coordinated in part by Sheriff's Sgt. Rod Daugherty. The children, fifth-graders in Barney Thomas' class at Antelope Elementary School, were covered in pow- dered sugar to represent the chemical spilled, which was sodium chlorate. Effects of such a spill vary depending upon the amount, but range from irritation to death if inhaled, said California Highway Patrol Officer Phillip Mackin- tosh, one of the incident public information officers. Students were hosed down by fire personnel and transported by bus to St. Elizabeth Community Hospi- tal for further decontamination. "We do drills at least twice a year at the hospital and This scenario is one that could happen in real life but Event aims to improve reading skills By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Expect More Tehama launched a new program, Tehama Reads, at its Monster of an Event Thursday at Rolling Hills Casino. "It's a new initiative under Expect More working with Tehama County Department of Education that focuses on school readiness in reading and writing pro- ficiently by third grade," said Expect More Lead- ership Team member Kathy Garcia. "As many know, this is the grade when students go from learning how to read to reading to learn. It's a pivotal time and those who struggle to read in third grade will likely struggle every grade after that." Sheriff Dave Hencratt spoke about the connec- tion of school readiness by third grade with chal- lenges at the Tehama Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Linda Lucas takes a look at a community book shelf started for Tehama Reads Thursday at the Expect More Tehama Monster of an Event held at Rolling Hills Casino. County Jail. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Realignment from AB109 has brought about 80 inmates who would have previously gone to state prison to the jail and there are another 80 who are under supervision, he said. In response, the Com- munity Corrections Part- nership (CCP) has begun to look at not just han- dling the immediate impact to the system, but decreasing the number of offenders, Hencratt said. "Education had an answer: Make sure kids are ready for school and learn to read and write proficiently by third grade," Hencratt said. "The CCP supports Tehama Reads and understands this is a community/education initiative that affects poverty levels and job attainment and safety." Law enforcement has long known inmates have educational obsta- cles, Hencratt said. There are 75 percent of state inmates, 69 percent of jail inmates and 59 percent of federal prison inmates that are high school dropouts, he said. "Research tells us that See SKILLS, page 7A try to involve our county partners to increase the col- laboration," said St. Elizabeth Community Hospital Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Coordinator Ruth Ann Rowen. involved a better idea of what different departments do and who to call for a specific type of situation, Rowen said. Doing the drills county-wide helps give everybody "It's a very effective training," Red Bluff Fire Engi- neer Matthew Shobash said. "It helps with things you may not have thought of and sharpens our skills. We hope we never have to use them, but if we do, we're ready. You hope for the best, but prepare for the worst." More than 40 county personnel and several from don't feel at loss in a real situation." ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. Redding man charged with child pornography was arrested on Wednesday by the FBI after a feder- al grand jury returned a one-count indictment charg- ing him with sharing child pornography. According to court documents, on Feb. 22, Sturn e-mailed videos containing depictions of the sexual exploitation of children. This was discovered because of a tip sent to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's CyberTipLine, according to a press release issued Thursday by U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner. Sturn was arraigned Thursday before U.S. Magis- trate Judge Edmund Brennan, where he pleaded not guilty. His next scheduled court date is June 19 before U.S. District Judge Lawrence Karlton, the release said. SACRAMENTO — Justin Sturn, 30, of Redding, Red Bluff participated in the three-day CalEMA train- ing, Regional Emergency Services Coordinator Debo- rah Russell said. "This full-scale exercise helps them put their train- ing into use with a real scenario that could happen," Russell said. "It gives them more confidence so they Preparing for the iff's deputies, surrounded the area and heard the boy somewhere in the vegetation near the Sacramento River. WORST This case is the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Morris is prosecuting the case. The maximum statutory penalty for distribution of child pornography is 20 years in prison. The actu- al sentence, if convicted, will be determined at the discretion of the court after consideration of applic- able statutory factors and the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which take into account a number of variables. This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. For more information about Project Safe Child- hood, visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov.