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JULIEZEEB—DAILYNEWS Judges and finalists pose for a picture following the Knockout Round of Red Bluff Voice Thursday at the Tehama District Fair. Pictured from le : Emily Farias, Danny Munoz, Madelynne West, Kellie Rodriguez, Ashtin Lopeman and Chad Bushnell. ing started out competing for a spot on Team Kellie coached by University of Utah musical theater per- formance major Kellie Ro- driguez. In the first round of the night, Muñoz made a decision to keep Brooks, at which point Rodriguez stole Stephens for a chance at her team against West. Muñoz later stole Farias from Rodriguez, who ulti- mately won the finalist spot for his team against Brooks and Bishop. Bushnell chose Lopeman. Following the selection of Lopeman for Team Chad, Farias for Team Danny and West for Team Kellie, the fi- nalists were given a chance to perform Friday evening before the Monster Truck show. A link was put out on the fair's Facebook page and at tehamadistrictfair.com Fri- day morning and audience members were given the chance to give one vote per device with real time re- sults showing on the results page following the casting of a vote. Fair FROMPAGE1 it is to save lives through donating blood. Fletcher advocated for using ones gifts, hers being singing, to bless others, encouraging the audience to find their passion and invest in their community. The second part was the talen portion of the com- petition in which Muñoz performed a Baile Folk- lorico dance and Hall did aa Choctaw rain dance. Silvera sang Rose Gar- den and Fletcher sang Al- most There from the movie Princess and the Frog. The final portion of the evening was a question pulled from a bowl with Muñoz asked to encour- age the audience to get involved in agriculture, which is a huge part of Te- hama County. Muñoz in- vited audience members to get involved with FFA and 4-H programs. Silver was asked if she could be anyone whom would she by and why. Her answer was herself be- cause she is proud of what she has become and has much more to do, she said. Hall was asked where she would take or suggest a first time visitor to Te- hama County go and she answered Firehouse Pizza because it is a favorite of her family's. Fletcher was given the task of encouraging vis- itors to attend the fair, which she did by talking of Monster Trucks, the Lit- tle Miss program on Sat- urday and the animals to be visited. Crowned FROM PAGE 1 to one remaining employee who will soon be leaving. Mayor Gary Strack said there have been problems with the shelter keeping employees at the facility. Tom Watson, admin- istrative analyst for the Corning Police Depart- ment, has been going over to the shelter, cleaning and helping out, Linnet said. Due to the inability to retain part-time employ- ees and the fact that prior recruitment efforts have not produced other quali- fied candidates, city staff will now explore the pos- sibility of contracting with Second Chance. Linnet said Second Chance has been a won- derful partner to the city. Working with Second Change will improve sta- bility at the shelter and possibly provide a cost ef- fective solution for the city, Linnet said. Working in conjunction with the police depart- ment's Community Service Officers, Second Chance has developed a proactive adoption program for an- imals housed at the City Animal Shelter, accord- ing to the report. This program has had a posi- tive impact by increasing the number of animals ad- opted and decreasing the number of animals that are euthanized. Services FROM PAGE 1 By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Califor- nia Gov. Jerry Brown an- nounced Friday that he signed legislation meant to bring down the record numbers of whales get- ting caught in fishing gear meantforDungenesscrabs, causing unknown numbers of the entangled mammals to drown or starve. The Democratic gover- nor approved the bill that allows fishermen to collect abandoned and lost crab pots — the cage-like con- traptions used to catch the crustaceans — in the off- season for a bounty, paid for by those who lost the gear. Crab fishermen joined environmental groups in backing the legislation af- ter federal agencies logged 61 reports of entangled whales off the West Coast last year, and 40 more by midsummer of this year, the majority of them off California. That compares with a previous average of eight or fewer whale entangle- ments a year. "It's a huge, huge in- crease" in whales caught in crabbing gear in particular, said Kristen Monsell, an at- torney with the Center for Environmental Diversity environmental group. "We're talking about re- ally slow, painful deaths" for whales snared by hun- dreds of pounds of crab pots, lines and floats, she said. The midsummer end of this year's crabbing sea- son, for example, coincided with days of failed efforts by fishermen, federal au- thorities and others to free a young, endangered blue whale spotted off Or- ange County with ropes and fishing floats of gear wrapped around its tail and mouth. Many species of whales, including the blue, are fed- erally protected. The measure would bar fishermen who fail to pay for recovered gear from re- ceiving a vessel permit for the next crabbing season. The legislation was cre- ated with the help of a task force of fishing groups, en- vironmental organizations and state and federal agen- cies, set up after reports of whale entanglements started surging in 2014. It's not clear why Cali- fornia's coast is experienc- ing a spike in the number of whales spotted tangled up in crabbing gear, except for increased convergence of whale feeding and mi- grating routes and crab- fishing. Some experts contend that last winter's shortened crabbing season led fish- ermen to place their gear with less care than usual. The season was abbre- viated because of higher- than-usual levels of toxins in the crabs caused by al- gae. "Last year, nobody was really prepared for it. It was kind of a real shock," said John Mellor, a fisher- man and member of one of the panels convened by the state to deal with the prob- lem. "Nobody wants to tan- gle a whale." Fishermen like Jim An- derson, who sets traps off Northern California's Half Moon Bay, already are ex- erting themselves to haul up abandoned crab pots ondayswhensalmonaren't biting. Overall, "we've brought in a couple hundred (aban- doned) pots in our port" in recent months, Anderson said. "Better for the fishery and better for the whales, too." Conservation groups have urged state and fed- eral agencies to do more, including closing some ar- eas with high numbers of whales to crab fishing. LEGISLATION Gov. Brown backs protecting whales from crab traps By Matt O'brien The Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. As the two leading presidential candidates tout compet- ing campaign proposals to provide paid leave to care for a baby, the three states that already have such pro- grams show how it could work. The proposals from Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are significantly different in how they'd be funded and who they'd help. But they have a clear precedent: not just the doz- ens of other rich countries that guarantee time off to care for a child or a sick family member, but also California, New Jersey and Rhode Island. "It's working fine in all three states," said Jane Waldfogel, a professor at Columbia University's School of Social Work who has studied the effects and said the benefits are great- est for lower-income work- ers who don't get any paid time off. California pioneered paid family leave in 2004, followed by New Jersey in 2009 and Rhode Island in 2014. New York will have the nation's most generous program when it launches in 2018, and many other states are considering sim- ilar laws that pay for the benefits in the same way they pay for disability in- surance. Leaveforfathers Fathers, who would be excluded from Trump's maternity leave program, are increasingly signing up for plans in the three states that allow paid fam- ily leave. "A lot of moms can get stressed out with a new- born child," said Ryan Smith, of Cranston, Rhode Island, who took two weeks of state-paid leave this year to bond with his newborn daughter. "When there are two parents there, it's defi- nitely better than one." Of Rhode Island parents who have taken leave so far this year to care for a new child, 37 percent are men, the highest rate of the three states. California has seen the rate of men participating rise from 17 percent in its first year to nearly 36 per- cent of the 250,000 parents who took it in the most re- cent fiscal year. New Jersey lags in par- ticipating fathers, with about 13 percent. In all three states, fa- thers are also less likely than mothers to take the full amount of paid leave allowed. A popular program Rhode Island was the first state to guarantee dis- ability leave in 1942, and the caregiving leave ad- opted in 2014 relies on the same pool of money that covers disability insur- ance. It's funded through employee payroll deduc- tions, meaning businesses don't have to pay. Business groups still opposed it because pri- vate-sector workers must pay into the fund even when their employers of- fer their own paid leave. But a survey of Rhode Is- land employers conducted by Waldfogel and other re- searchers last year found that a majority supported the new law. Smith said that both he and his wife took Rhode Island's paid leave when their second daughter, Eden, was born in late March, and that they com- bined it with vacation. His employer, a bank, was so supportive that it filled in the gap of what the state program didn't cover, he said. The state-funded leave pays 60 percent of a per- son's salary for up to four weeks. A survey by research- ers at the University of Rhode Island found that the program is popular, with most who participate saying they were satisfied. Those who took leave said it made them less stress- ful and healthier and gave them more time for breast- feeding and taking the baby to medical check-ups. They were also less likely to miss work once they re- turned. "That's the whole goal, to change the culture, to honor the importance of caregiving," said Barbara Silver, a psychologist who led URI's survey. "We can't have a healthy society un- less we have healthy fam- ilies." Questioning benefits Not all researchers are confident paid leave is helping young mothers. A paper co-authored in 2014 by Solomon Polachek — an economics professor at the State University of New York at Binghamton who studied California's program — found that the number of young women in the labor force increased as a result of paid leave, but so did the number of young women who were unemployed, along with the duration of time they were unemployed when compared with men and older women. "Basically what hap- pened is this law induced more young women to en- ter the labor market or stay in the market as op- posed to dropping out," Po- lachek said. "At the same time, companies looked at it and were a bit more re- luctant to hire women." That's not enough to worry paid family leave's champions, who question that study's methods and argue the societal benefits go far beyond employment numbers. For now the program also gives Rhode Island an advantage in retaining a workforce to improve its economy, said state Sen. Gayle Goldin, a Providence Democrat who introduced the paid family leave legis- lation in 2013. "I've had people tell me they moved to Rhode Is- land and got jobs and when they realized we had the benefit on the books, they decided to stay," she said. Candidates' proposals Clinton's plan would guarantee 12 weeks of paid leave and cover about 67 percent of a person's sal- ary, up to a certain cap. Trump's plan, which his daughter Ivanka unveiled this month, would offer six weeks, but only to mothers who gave birth to the child. Unlike Clinton's plan or what the states provide, it would exclude men, adop- tive parents and people caring for relatives who are seriously ill. Clinton says she would pay for hers with higher taxes on the wealthiest Americans, while Trump says he would pay for his by cutting unemployment insurance fraud. PROGRAMS IN PLACE As C li nt on , Tr um p to ut p ar en ta l leave, 3 states offer models CHARLES KRUPA — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Ryan Smith, right, poses with his wife Sarah and children Ashton, 2, and Eden, 6months, outside their family home on Tuesday in Cranston, Rhode Island. Both of the Smiths were able to take advantage of paid family leave with the birth of their daughter Eden. JAMESE.MONTY James E. Monty, formerly of Red Bluff, age 69, passed away September 19, 2016, at Andover Village, Ohio, after fighting a long and brave battle of complications from a double-lung transplant. He was a Vietnam Army veteran serving two tours. Jim is survived by his wife, Glenda Monty; daughter, Mi- chelle Monty; son, Robert Monty; granddaughter, Madisyn; brother, Donald and four sisters, Marcia Miles; Susan Baker; Lisa Courtemanche; and Teresa Brainerd. Jim is preceded in death by his parents, Armand and Jua- nita Monty and sister, Carol Ann Monty. Burial will be in New Lexington, Ohio. Obituaries R ed Bluff Simple Cremations and Burial Service FD1931 527-1732 Now open longer hours 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2016 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A