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TUESDAY Sports Ode 2012 DECEMBER 25, 2012 Breaking news at: SPORTS 1B www.redbluffdailynews.com DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Rain likely 49/38 Weather forecast 8B TEHAMA COUNTY DAILY 50�� T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U NTY S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Sleigh Team 1 Gang stabbing sends one to hospital CORNING ��� A gang-related stabbing sent a 22year-old Corning man to the hospital Friday night. Around 7 p.m. Tehama County Sheriff���s deputies and Corning police officers responded to 23670 McLane Ave. near 4th and South streets for a reported stabbing. Efrain Candia told officers he was part of a gang and a rival gang had assaulted him. He was air lifted to an area hospital with significant injuries including stab wounds to his left forearm and left side. At last check he was listed in fair condition. Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to contact the Corning Police Department at 8247000. Council backs meals for seniors donating a month's worth of meals for a senior. A donation of $58 each. ���In poker terminology, we raised him three weeks,��� Crabtree said. Donations can be sent to the Senior Nutrition Program, Adopt A Senior, 1500 S. Jackson St., Red Bluff, 96080. For more information call 527-2414. The price for one senior to eat for an entire year is $682. Agenda items ��� The council authorized a contract with Commercial Pump and Mechanical in the amount of $42,787 for design, pump repair and water lube conversion of a city well that recently suffered a mechanical failure. The city had budgeted around three to four well repairs for the fiscal year with money from its water enterprise fund. Basically the authorization bumps Well No. By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer MCT file photo Santa Claus chats with Dasher just hours before taking off on his Christmas Eve journey. By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer NORTH POLE ��� As the other elves enjoy their day off with White Elephant gift exchanges and acorns filled with egg nog, Bernie spends his in the office. As head coach of Santa Claus��� Reindeer Sleigh Team 1, Bernie wastes little time reviewing what he calls ���game footage��� from the previous night���s proceedings. ���The Christmas Eve global run is our entire regular season, playoffs and Super Bowl rolled into one,��� Bernie said. ���It���s the only chance I have to critique the reindeer on missed landings and takeoffs.��� While the majority of North Pole elves work in the toy shop, others are funneled into more specific field careers. Bernie���s uncle, Hermey, for instance became a dentist. His story was popularized in the famous ���Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer��� television story. During the filming of the documentary, Bernie said he was inspired to get into the field of reindeer coaching. ���At that time the reindeer were still coaching themselves,��� Bernie said. ���Comet considered himself a player-slash-coach, but it caused a lot of tension amongst the ranks ��� a lot of names were called.��� Despite graduating from North Pole State University with a degree in Holiday Design, Bernie wrote a letter to Santa Claus and asked for the position of Reindeer Coach to be created. ���Keep in mind I see the Big Man read letter after letter from children around the world and answer their Christmas wishes, so I figure I would give it a shot and see if he would answer the wish of an upstart elf like myself,��� Bernie said. To Bernie���s wide-eyed amazement, a week later he woke up on Christmas morning to find a contract under his tree and a whistle hung next to his stocking. Bernie massively overhauled Santa���s reindeer department. He altered the reindeer���s daily meals to be more nutritious and muscle-building and changed the Reindeer Games event into a yearly tryout to make Santa���s squad. While none of the nine reindeer have ever been cut from the first squad, Bernie said putting their jobs on the line every year has led to Your move, Mayor Strack. Red Bluff Councilwoman Daniele Jackson announced at the Dec. 18 meeting that the entire council, along with City Manager Richard Crabtree, was ready to respond to a challenge issued by Corning Mayor Gary Strack. At the Nov. 27 Corning City Council meeting, Strack announced he was donating a week���s worth of meals for a senior to the Senior Nutrition Program. The program has recently found itself about $15,000 short in funds. The cost for one senior to eat per week is $14. Strack challenged the Corning Council and staff along with the Red Bluff City Council to match his donation. Jackson gleefully announced that the five councilmembers and Crabtree were each See SENIORS, page 7A See SLEIGH, page 7A Thousands enjoy Memorial ride donates to area services merry Christmas in Bethlehem By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) ��� Thousands of Christians from the world over packed Manger Square in Bethlehem Monday to celebrate the birth of Jesus in the ancient West Bank town where he was born. For their Palestinian hosts, this holiday season was an especially joyous one, with the hardships of the Israeli occupation that so often clouded previous Christmas Eve celebrations eased by the United Nations��� recent recognition of an independent state of Palestine. Festivities led up to the Midnight Mass at St. Catherine���s Church, next to the fourth-century Church of the Nativity, built over the grotto where tradition says Jesus was born. ������From this holy place, I invite politicians and men of good will to work with determination for peace and reconciliation that encompasses Palestine and Israel in the midst of all the suffering in the Middle East,������ said the top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land, Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal in his annual address. ������Please continue to fight for a just cause to achieve peace and security for the people of the Holy Land.������ In his pre-Christmas homily, Twal said the road to actual freedom was still long, but this year���s festivities were doubly joyful, celebrating ������the birth of Christ our Lord and the birth of the state of Palestine.������ ������The path (to statehood) remains long, and will require a united effort,������ added Twal, a Palestinian citizen of Jordan, at the patriarchate���s headquarters in Jerusalem���s Old City. Then he set off in a procession for the West Jeannie Garton had tears in her eyes, but she also had a trio of checks to hand out Dec. 18 at the Tehama County Board of Supervisors meeting. Garton���s grandson Ronnie King is remembered each spring through an annual memorial ride organized by the Lassen Riders Gold Wing Touring Association. King was 15 years old when he died from a massive seizure in 2008. He suffered chronic seizure disorder his entire life and the organizations that benefit from the memorial are those that were dear to his heart. The Antelope Volunteer Fire Company, which often responded to King during a seizure, received a check for $500. Garton said it is a nice feeling knowing King���s legacy lives on through the equipment that is purchased through the annual donation. See MERRY, page 7A See RIDE, page 7A Daily News photo by Rich Greene Jeannie Garton, behind lectern, donates checks to the Senior Nutrition Program, Antelope Volunteer Fire Company and Sheriff���s Explorer Post No. 120. The money was raised through the annual Ronnie Lee King Memorial Ride. The Daily News office will be closed for the Christmas Holiday, Monday, Dec. 24, Tuesday Dec. 25 & for New Years Holiday Monday, Dec. 31, Tuesday, Jan. 1 Advertising deadline for Tuesday editions is noon the previous Friday. Classified line ads will be accepted by telephone on Christmas Eve and New Year���s Eve until 3 PM. Call 527-2151 and press 2 for Classifieds DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF TEHAMA COUNTY 527-2151 ��� FAX 527-3719 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 545 DIAMOND AVE., RED BLUFF