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ByAdamGeller APNationalWriter WESTMINSTER, CALIF. The week after Donald Trump was elected president, Dr. Mai-Phu- ong Nguyen and two dozen other Vietnamese-Americans active in liberal causes gath- ered in a circle of folding chairs, consoling one another about an America almost beyond com- prehension. Now, days before Trump takes the oath of office, Nguyen sits in a restaurant booth in Orange County's neon-lit Lit- tle Saigon and studies perhaps the most confounding face of the divide exposed by the elec- tion — her father's. "All I know is, if a man makes $100 million he is really some- thing," Son Van Nguyen, 76, says of Trump. Here in a county transformed by waves of newcomers, the el- der Nguyen — a government translator airlifted from South Vietnam with his family in 1975 as Communist forces pressed in on the capital — built a new life as a record-setting life insur- ance salesman, watching peo- ple strive and struggle. "And I know a lot of people out there sit there and wait for welfare," he says, explaining his hopes that Trump will rein in such spending and create jobs. "But he is trying to prevent other people from coming in and enjoying some of the same things you came here for, Dad," says his daughter, a 47-year- old physician who pushed for health care reform and fears Trump will take away the med- ical coverage it extended to mil- lions of Americans. "If he does wrong, are you going to sup- port him?" Their disagreement is a re- minder that for Orange County, just as for the rest of the coun- try, there has never been a mo- ment quite like this one. When Hillary Clinton won this county of 3.2 million in November, it marked the first time the OC had backed a Dem- ocrat for president since Frank- lin Roosevelt. Best known for PRESIDENT-ELECT InReaganCountry,changebringscomplexoutlookonTrump By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF The iconic State Theatre turned 70 on May 24, 2016, as did the 70-year-old the- ater seats in need of replace- ment. The theater has started a seat- ing sponsorship campaign with the hopes of replacing all 750 seats by early summer. Those with fond memories of the State Theatre and who would love to support the local land- mark can help purchase a new seat for the theater and receive a name plate, with a memory, memorial to someone special or whatever the person participat- ing in the sponsorship wishes, on the new seat. To purchase a name plate and help replace the seats costs $500 per seat, which will include the installation of the seat. Many Red Bluff High School graduating classes, including the class of 1950, 1957, 1968 and 1969, are participating in the STATE THEATRE CAMPAIGN UNDERWAY TO REPLACE THEATER SEATS HEATHERHOELSCHER—DAILYNEWS State Theatre for the Arts board members Bill Cornelius and Carmel Growney sit in the 70-year-old seats set to be replaced through a fundraising campaign. By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter PAYNES CREEK The Tehama County Resource Conserva- tion District has been awarded a $139,000 grant to expand a fuel break being constructed in Eastern Tehama County in the Canyon View Loop area. The fuel break, which will av- erage 200 feet wide and cover 187 acres when completed, is a continuation of a project started in November 2015 uti- lizing California Conservation Corps crews from Shasta and Butte counties, said Cal Fire Tehama-Glenn Unit Forester Dawn Pedersen at a presen- tation to the Tehama County Board of Supervisors in De- cember. The project has encompassed 12,000 hours of time to remove about 18 acres of hazardous fu- els using state responsibility area fee funds that were allo- cated previously for the project. "The firebreak will be in east- ern Tehama County just south of Sky Creek Ranch and tie into an existing fuel break Sierra Pa- cific has constructed on their lands," Pedersen said. "When completed it will make for a safer evacuation route and an- chor points for fire suppression personnel and resources." The grant comes from Cal Fire's fire prevention fund pro- gram and the additional acre- age, which has 150 inhabited structures, will make for a to- tal of 262 acres involved. The project focuses on strategically linking fuel break infrastruc- ture to protect the communities of Manton and Mineral, which have about 450 additional in- habited structures. The project is expected to be completed by March 2018. FIRE SAFETY Grant awarded for fuel break expansion Contributed RED BLUFF The Tehama County Arts Council, in partnership with the Red Bluff Art Association and the Tehama County Photo Club, willhostitsInauguralOpeningEx- hibit at the new Main Event Gal- lery, 710 Main St. The public is invited to attend the reception 5-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 20. Light refreshments will be served and Tuscan Ridge Winery will pour wine. Featured for this first of many exhibits to follow are original tra- ditional art, fine art photography and sculpture by members of the three organizations. The Glass Room gift shop will display other works of art such as ceramics, sculptures, jewelry, greeting cards and prints. Use of the ornate original 1929 Bank of Red Bluff building as a community art center, made pos- sible by owners Ken and Melina Robison, will include the Green Room, offering art classes, ceram- ics and an art studio, under the di- rection of the Tehama County Arts Council. "We want this art center to be for Tehama County," Arts Council Chairman Robert Bird said. "All artists are welcome." Debby Sipes, president of the Red Bluff Art Association, agreed. "Almost every person that I mention that this beautiful build- ing is now going to house an art gallery has said, 'You know, I al- ways thought it would make a greatartgallery,'"Sipessaid."Well, noweveryonecancomeandseefor themselves the art gallery they en- visioned for so long." Photo club member Barbara Luzzadder said she hopes the gal- lery willdrawvisitorsfrom outside the community. "Besides offering many oppor- MAIN EVENT Galleryopeningindowntown Community.....A3 Lifestyles........B3 Classifieds......B5 Sports.............. B1 Opinion............A4 Daily Break......B2 INDEX Have a great day, Barbara Taylor GOOD MORNING Suicide prevention groups link up with firearms business in unexpected partnership. PAGEB6 TIES Gunindustryforges unlikely alliance Outgoing president allows Army leaker to go free almost three decades earlier. PAGE B6 POLITICS Obama commutes most of Manning's sentence The grant comes from Cal Fire's fire prevention fund program and the additional acreage, which has 150 inhabited structures, will make for a total of 262 acres involved. 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