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ByJulieZeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF Severalawardswere handed out Wednesday for the first ever Alternatives To Violence Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Contest during a ceremony where the entries were on display for those in attendance to view. The contest, which drew about 60 entries, was held as a part of a month-long campaign that in- cluded a week's worth of activi- ties at Red Bluff High School — all a part of bringing awareness to teen dating violence, which, according to one video entered, about 81 percent of parents don't believe is an issue. CONTEST St ud en ts lauded for pr ev en ti on efforts By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF The Poor And The Homeless Tehama County Co- alition Sale House, at the corner of Sale Lane and Gilmore Ranch Road, received a donation of $1,934 Thursday to assist with making the home more energy efficient. The Sale House provides tran- sitional housing for women and their children. The donations came from the Sierra Pacific employees in the Window Division after a national sales meeting was held in Red- ding. An entertainment night, which included dueling pianos, was held where employees were able give donations and request songs for the pianists to duel against each other. Becky Roe, Sierra Pacific com- munications coordinator, said the employees wanted to continue to give back to the Sale House ap- preciate what the program does for women in need. PATH Sale House receives donation Staff report RANCHO TEHAMA Tehama County Sheriff Deputies re- sponded around 3 p.m. Wednes- day to a report of a dog mauling at a residence on Sutter Court that resulted in one man with severe bite wounds and lacerations. A woman who attempted to distract the dogs also received a bite wound. The man involved, Don Kros- lowitz, 48, was transported by air ambulance to Enloe Medical Cen- ter in Chico due to the severity of his injuries stained in the attack, including lacerations and contu- sions over most of his body and on his face. Kroslowitz was mowing his neighbor's yard inside a fenced area where three adult pit bulls and a litter of five puppies were being kept, according to a press release issued by the sheriff's of- fice Thursday. It is believed Kros- lowitz got too close to the litter of puppies and was attacked by the three adult dogs. The attack was interrupted by a neighbor who entered the yard with a vehicle and performed a rescue. A witness to the attack, Bonnie Dixon, 67, tried to call the dogs away from Kroslowitz by shaking the chain link fence while stand- ing on the opposite side, the re- lease said. She received a punc- ture bite from one of the dogs that bit her through the fence as she tried to distract them. Dixon's injuries were not as severe and she sought her own treatment. According to the release this was a vicious attack and wit- nesses who saw the incident de- scribed the attack as extremely vi- olent and pack-like. The sheriff's office responded to the call with a total of five dep- uties. Volunteers from the Ran- cho Tehama Fire Rescue also re- sponded and immediately admin- istered medical aid to Kroslowitz. The dogs were aggressive to- ward anyone approaching the yard and resisted violently when deputies attempted to remove them, according to the release. A variety of methods were used to try to control the animals, in- cluding an attempted TASER de- ployment that was not successful. Deputies used a catch pole to control each of the adult dogs, the release said. The deputies in- volved did report being injured. The three dogs involved were transported to the Tehama County Animal Care Center, along with the five puppies. RANCHO TEHAMA Manattackedbydogs,severelyinjured Community.....A3 Education........A4 Lifestyles........A5 Opinion............A6 Weather..........A8 Sports..............B1 Index...............## INDEX Have a great day, Karen Losee GOOD MORNING D DowJones 21,002.97-112.58 D S&P 500 2381.92-14.04 D Nasdaq 5861.22-42.81 BUSINESS California Supreme Court says state workers can't hide work- related emails and texts from the public. PAGE A8 CALIFORNIA Court:Emailsonprivate accounts are public Under pressure, attorney gen- eral recuses self from investi- gation into Russian meddling in U.S. election. PAGE B3 ATTORNEY GENERAL Sessions steps aside from Russia probe ATTACK PAGE 7 By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF The Tehama County Sexual Assault Re- sponse Team, or SART, hosted a screening Tuesday of the doc- umentary "8 Days," which tells the story of Amber Stevens who was kidnapped and forced into sex trafficking. The event was held at the State Theatre to raise aware- ness of the issue of human traf- ficking. "Thank you for joining us," said SART member Sherry We- hbey following the film. "We have a panel of community ex- perts here to ask about what you can do to fight human ex- ploitation in Tehama County." Tehama County SART is a collaboration of community partners formed in July 2016. Members includes the Tehama County Department of Social Services, Probation Depart- ment, District Attorney's Of- fice, Sheriff's Department, Red Bluff Police, Corning Police, De- partment of Education, Dignity Health Medical Group North- state, Alternatives To Violence and Court Appointed Special Advocates. The panel consisted of St. Elizabeth Community Hospi- tal Senior Director of Mission Intergration Sister Pat Manoli, Child Welfare Services Supervi- sor Steve Dickerson, Rape Cri- sis Director Rocky Cruz, Men- tal Health Assistant Director JoAnne Jeffrey, Sheriff's Sgt. Richard Knox and District At- torney Gregg Cohen. Parent Kim Acevedo of Corn- ing was the first to ask a ques- tion and she asked how soon organizers could raise aware- ness of the issue of trafficking at area high schools and possi- bly even grade schools. "This to me is very impor- tant," Acevedo said. Alternatives To Violence Di- rector Jeannie Spurr, a team member, agreed that it is a "critically important" message to share with youth and said work has already begun, start- ing with the Department of Ed- ucation getting curriculum in place and ATV doing presen- tations on the topic to health classes in schools. Other mem- bers urged parents interested in seeing the topic brought to their schools to contact school board members or administra- tors. Local teachers and others are being trained to recognize the signs of commercially sex- ually exploited children. The next training, which includes how to recognize indicators or warning signs of exploited chil- dren and those at risk, is sched- uled 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Mon- day at the Department of Ed- ucation. Interested parties can register by calling Judy Man- dolfo at 209-7649. A couple of people asked about the number or percent- age of those children missing in Tehama County who ended up as human trafficking victims. Panel experts said they knew of at least one, but with the topic being relatively new they are still in the stage of process- ing data. For years child victims were hard to build trust with as the practice was to treat them as criminals, but there has been a shift and work is being done to change the laws to decrimi- nalize the youth in sex traffick- ing and see them as the victims they are, Dickerson said. Dignity Health has been working to raise awareness of the issue of trafficking for about six years, Manoli said. "When I first heard we were doing training I was surprised because this is the North State," Manoli said. "However, we are on the I-5 corridor, which makes us a hot spot and this is something we can't ignore. This is an epidemic." Jeffrey said it is vital parents keep track of their children on social media and maintain an open dialogue. There is a need to get back to the basics of "stranger dan- ger," not only in public but on- line, and be able to recognize if something doesn't feel right or seems out of place, Dicker- son said. Jeffrey said it is important to have a text code the child sends to parents if they are feeling un- comfortable. The parent replies by calling them and saying that something has happened and they need to come pick up the child. Those interested in events and trainings hosted by Te- hama County SART can check its Facebook page for more in- formation. 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