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ByHeatherHoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter CORNING The City Council and Mayor Doug Hately Jr. Tuesday proclaimed Jan. 23-29 as National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week in Corning, with various drug edu- cation and prevention activities planned during the week. Alcohol and drug misuse is one of the nation's most pressing pub- lic health concerns, according to the proclamation. National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week is a week-long national health observance designed to present teens with scientific facts about the consequences of drugs and drug abuse on their brains, bodies and behavior and to coun- teract the myths that they receive from the media, the Internet, fam- ilyandfriend,saidLisaLinnet,city clerk. Ulanda Hinkston, project coor- dinator with the Tehama County Drug-free Community Coalition, accepted the proclamation at the meeting and said this is the first time Tehama County is observing National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week and it is the 10th time for the nation. CORNING LastweekofJanuarydevotedtodrugandalcoholfacts HEATHERHOELSCHER—DAILYNEWS Ulanda Hinkston, project coordinator with the Tehama County Drug-Free Community Coalition, accepts the proclamation Tuesday from Corning City Mayor Doug Hately, Jr. that proclaims the last week of January as National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week. By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF Rodeo contestants from several districts will be making their way to Red Bluff starting Friday for the annual California High School Rodeo Association Interdistrict Ro- deo, which includes the annual Special Rodeo Saturday, in the Pauline Davis Pavilion at the Te- hama District Fairground. Organizers are preparing about 300 goodie bags for the special rodeo that will include items donated by various lo- cal businesses, said District 1 CHSRA Rodeo Representative RaeC Lopeman. Anyone wishing to donate to the bags for partic- ipants can call her at 736-0736. The special rodeo starts at noon Saturday and will include a patriotic theme grand entry prior to the start of the main event — a rodeo for people with disabilities of varying levels. Participants are each paired with a high school rodeo contes- RODEO HIGH SCHOOL RODEO KICKS OFF IN RED BLUFF TODAY RED BLUFF DAILY NEWS – FILE PHOTO California High School Rodeo contestants watch Aaron Parker of Red Bluff try his hand at roping at the 2016Special Rodeo at the Tehama District Fairground. By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press SONOMA More than 40 percent of California has emerged from a punishing drought that covered the whole state a year ago, federal drought-watchers said Thursday, a stunning transformation caused by an unrelenting series of storms in the North that filled lakes, over- flowed rivers and buried moun- tains in snow. The weekly drought report by government and academic water experts showed 42 percent of the state free from drought. This time last year, 97 percent of the state was in drought. Southern California, also receiv- ing welcome rain from the storms, remains in drought but has expe- rienced a dramatic reduction in the severity. Just 2 percent of the state, a swath between Los Ange- les and Santa Barbara, remains in the sharpest category of drought that includes drying wells, reser- voirs and streams and widespread crop losses. Forty-three percent of the state was in that direst cate- gory this time a year ago. California will remain in a drought emergency until Gov. Jerry Brown lifts or eases the dec- laration he issued in January 2014, while standing in a bare Sierra Nevada meadow that one of the state's driest stretches on record had robbed of all snow. State officials said this week that Brown will likely wait until the end of California's winter snow and rain season to make a deci- sion on revising the drought dec- laration. For Northern California, at least, the onslaught of storms that brought the Sierras their heaviest snow in six years and forced volun- tary evacuations of thousands of people as rivers surged will likely make it a much clearer call for the governor, water experts said. "It's hard to say we have a drought here right now," said Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at the Univer- sity of California at Davis, an area near Sacramento that was awash after its heaviest rain in 20 years. Lund spoke on his way back from taking students to see flood gates on the Sacramento River, opened by state officials Tuesday for the first time in 12 years to ease pressureonriver banks andlevees. The opened gates were spill- ing a 2-mile torrent of excess wa- ter onto public lands in the Sac- ramento Valley, alongside the WEATHER More than 40 percent of California out of drought By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter CORNING The City Council showed support Tuesday for the establishment of a Boys and Girls Club with a proclamation, which commends the Boys and Girls Club organization in the state for providing comprehensive and ef- fective services to the young peo- ple in communities. Boys and Girls Clubs present a safe and positive place to learn and grow, all while having fun, according to the proclamation. It is a place where great futures are started each and every day. City Manager Kristina Miller accepted the proclamation of sup- port on behalf of Tara Cory, of the Corning Restore program, who was unable to make the meeting. Cory is interested in establishing a Boys and Girls club in the city. This project is in its initial stages and Cory had came to the council for moral support, Miller said. Councilwoman Darlene Dickin- son said she was in full support of the club and it would be a great thing for the city. According to the proclamation Boys and Girls Clubs offer educa- tional, recreation and social ac- tivities provided by caring and trained youth development pro- fessionals that act as a positive influence and assist in discov- ery and pursuit of their interests, broadening their viewpoints, self- awareness and understanding of themselves and establishing of fu- ture goals. The Boys and Girls Club pro- vides multiple programs that fo- cus on education and careers, character and leadership, health and life skills, arts and sports, fit- ness and recreation. The establishment of a Boys and Girls Club in Corning would provide access for youth to a fo- rum for networking and commu- nication on important youth is- sues and what roles the club plays in shaping great futures, said Lisa Linnet, city clerk. Nearly 4,000 clubs worldwide serve more than 4.1 million young people through membership and community outreach with their CORNING SupportforBoysandGirlsClub Community.....A3 Lifestyles........A5 Opinion............A6 Sports.............. B1 Comics ............B6 Weather ..........B8 INDEX Have a great day, Don Chandler GOOD MORNING Nominee for defense secre- tary outlines conditions in the world during largely friendly hearing in Senate. 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