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TUESDAY APRIL 6, 2010 Breaking news at: Dirty Jobs TV series American Profile www.redbluffdailynews.com See Inside RED BLUFF NCAA Champs SPORTS 1B Partly Cloudy 61/43 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 Man charged with 26 counts of ATM theft CORNING — A Corning man was arrested Friday morning and is being held at the Tehama County Jail on $370,000 bail on charges including multiple counts of ATM theft. Ruben Soliz, 35, was contacted at 7:30 a.m. Friday at his residence on East Solano Street in Corning by Tehama County Sheriff’s Deputies regarding a stolen ATM card. Deputy S. McCullough had contacted Sergio Zepe- da on March 27 at his residence in the 8500 block of Highway 99E in Los Molinos, where he said someone had intercepted his ATM card in the mail. Zepeda said someone had accessed his bank account See ATM, page 7A Red Bluff bank turns first profit By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Cornerstone Commu- nity Bank has released the financial results for its fourth quarter and full year ending Dec. 31, 2009. “We are very pleased to have reported our first annual profit,” President and CEO Jeffrey Finck said. “Even with our 28 percent growth in assets, we were able to maintain excellent asset quality at Dec. 31, 2009 with only $1,000 in nonperforming assets. We continue to be well above the 10 percent regulatory standard for well-capitalized institu- tions with a total risk- based capital ratio at Dec. 31, 2009 of 17.3 percent. We look forward to con- tinued financial progress as Northern California emerges from recession.” The bank had total assets of $70.6 million compared to $55.1 mil- lion at the end of 2008, representing growth of $15.5 million or 28 per- cent. Total loans outstand- ing, net of unearned income, were $48.3 mil- lion compared to $44.9 million in 2008, repre- senting an increase of $3.4 million or 8 percent. Total deposits were $61.7 million compared to total deposits of $46.2 million in 2008, repre- senting an increase of $15.5 million or 34 per- cent. Nonperforming assets consisting of non-accrual loans were reported at $1,000. The bank’s total risk- based capital ratio, tier one capital ratio and leverage ratio were 17.30 percent, 16.04 percent and 12.4 percent, respec- tively. Those numbers all exceed the regulatory standards for well-capital- ized banks. Cornerstone is a Cali- fornia state-chartered bank with local headquar- ters in Red Bluff and a loan office in Redding. In the past year, the growth of deposits at Cor- nerstone has been at a See BANK, page 7A Photo courtesy of Michael Popov Alan Abbs tears a page from a book while competing in the Barkley Marathons, one of the toughest ultramarathons in the world. By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Endurance runner Alan Abbs, Tehama County’s Air Pollution Control District head, is now among only 700 other runners in the world who can add the Barkley Marathons to their lists of running achievements. The 100-mile run is said to be one of the toughest races in the world. Each of the race’s five loops is about 20 miles. The course is anything from straight cross coun- try, running to about 12,000 feet of climbing and descending through briar patches, across a river and other rough terrain. Runners go all day and night hoping to finish the race in the 60-hour cutoff time. When Abbs, a 20-year endurance racing veteran who has been running ultramarathons for the last 6 or 7 years, heard about the Barkley Marathons, he was imme- diately interested in participating, he said. Getting the chance to participate is a feat itself. Only the best of the best endurance runners are invited to compete in the annual event. Candidates have to submit personal essays stating why they should be chosen to participate. Abbs was picked to compete in this year’s marathon, which took place on March 27-29, in Frozen Head State Park in Tennessee. “I was told I had to be brash and promote my athletic achievement to write up a good proposal,” Abbs Maywood Woman’s Club turns 100 By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — The Maywood Woman’s Club is having a tea reception at noon Saturday, at the clubhouse, 902 Marin St., to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the club- house. “The community is welcome to come,” said Linda Lima, president. “The Maywood Woman’s Club would be honored to host their community for the 100th anniversary of the clubhouse.” The clubhouse was one of many built for the American Woman’s League, formed by Edward Gardner Lewis in 1908, that were given to chapters once they had enough members, Lima said. While the movement lasted only a few years, 38 chapter houses were built, and 16 remain, she said. The Corning Chapter was organized by Arvilla Crawford DeLuce, who was the first president of the Maywood Woman’s Club. The clubhouse was said. His list of achievements and play-up of California running prob- ably got him in. Most participants are eastern runners and a competi- tor coming from the West Coast is rare. The race definitely lived up to the hype, Abbs said. He has done other races that are much longer, including some that are five to seven days long, but the Barkley Marathons is the toughest, so far. “It was one of those races where when you start you knew that suc- cess is not a guaranteed thing,” he said. “It’s exhilarating because you have nothing to lose, so you give it everything you can. Once you get started it was really all business. See BEYOND, page 7A Suspect released on reduced bond By GEOFF JOHNSON DN Staff Writer A Corning man suspected of possessing $15,000 of property stolen from his neighbors is out on bail and plead- ed innocent Friday. Tehama County Sheriff’s Deputies called out the Shasta County Bomb Squad to detonate old, unstable dynamite found in a shed on Coleman’s property Tuesday and Wednesday. By the time they were finished, Coleman’s bail had been set at $112,000 and he had been arrested on suspicion of possessing an explosive and stolen property. On Thursday, Coleman’s bail was set to $10,000 by Judge John Garaventa. By Friday afternoon he had made bail, according to Tehama County Jail staff. As of Friday no charges had been filed regarding Cole- Courtesy photo The Maywood Woman’s Club is hosting a tea reception at noon Saturday, in honor of the 100th anniversary of its clubhouse. finished in the spring of 1910 and the average cost of the chapter houses was $2,500. The Maywood Woman’s Club was orga- nized in 1898, but out- grew its first clubhouse in 1903. In 1912, the club began renting the chapter house it now resides in, but didn’t purchase it until 1920, when the American Woman’s League disbanded. The clubhouse was placed on the National 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Register of Historic Places in 1992 and is one of only 10 places in Tehama County to hold that honor, Lima said. The club has been working for several years to raise money to start a restoration project on the building. “We’re very close to our goal and are looking forward to starting the needed beautification and repairs of our historic, quaint home because per- sonally, locally and his- torically, this place truly matters,” Lima said. See CLUB, page 7A man’s suspected possession of dynamite, Deputy District Attorney Larry Olsen said. If filed, those charges may be handled separately from Coleman’s suspected possession of stolen property. “I can just about be sure that there’s not a judge that would set a bail at $10,000 for someone that possessed dynamite and was going to build bombs,” Olsen said. “I would think (the bail) would be very high.” A $10,000 bail for possession of stolen property is com- monplace, he said. 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