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THURSDAY DECEMBER 27, 2012 Troubadours for New Year Pro Bowl Bound Pastimes Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Mostly sunny 53/33 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 Rainy holiday, but few outages reported By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Heavy rains fell throughout the holiday weekend with almost an inch falling in a 24hour period. According to the National Weather Service, 1.06 inches of rain fell in a 72-hour period starting Sunday with about 0.91 inches falling in Red Bluff between 1 p.m. Tuesday and 1 p.m. Wednesday. The National Weather Service website shows significantly less rainfall elsewhere during the same 24-hours with Mineral the closest at 0.83 inches Corning was at 0.67 inches of rain and the Thomes Creek area at 0.56 inches while Cottonwood Creek saw 0.16 inches. Showers are expected to continue off and on through Saturday evening with the possibility of some frost this morning and patchy fog after 10 p.m. Despite the rainfall, power outages were at a minimum, PG&E Spokesman Paul Moreno said. ���We only had two power outages over Christmas Eve and day in Tehama County, which is really good,��� Moreno said. ���Shasta and Plumas counties didn't fare so well due to heavy and low-elevation snow falls.��� Flooding caused about 14 customers in the Lake California area to lose power at 4:20 See RAINY, page 7A Beer sales help rebuild monastery Storms close Lassen center Winter has arrived in full swing at Lassen Volcanic National Park. The recent storms have blanketed Lassen with a significant amount of snow, which led to the temporary closure of the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center at the South Entrance to the park. ���Our road crew is diligently clearing away the snow and we hope to have the Visitor Center reopened by this weekend,��� Park Superintendent Darlene Koontz said. ���Please contact the park before making your travel plans as road conditions can change frequently and the See LASSEN, page 7A County supports broadband expansion plan By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Daily News file photo The Chapter House at the Abbey of New Clairvaux in Vina. VINA (AP) ��� Monks in a small Northern California town are rebuilding a centuries-old Spanish monastery with help from what may seem an unlikely source: beer. The first phase of the building���s decades-long restoration project in Vina has been completed, with the Chapter House of Ovila now standing, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Tuesday. In the 1930s, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst bought the former Trappist monastery��� the Santa Maria de Ovila ��� and imported it from Spain for an estate that was never realized. He had planned to use parts of the church for an indoor swimming pool changing room. Once that project was scrapped, Hearst donated the monastery���s pieces to the city of San Francisco, but the dismantled building sat forgotten in Golden Gate Park for more than 60 years. The Vina monks credit the founder of their abbey, Father Thomas X. Davis, with the idea of restoring the remains to the Trappist community. Davis saw the stones at Golden Gate Park when he arrived in San Francisco in 1955 and began a campaign to bring them to Vina. The city eventually agreed to turn over the stones to the abbey. The Chapter House was rebuilt with the help of millions of dollars raised by the Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. in nearby Chico. Calif. fails to win ���No Child Left Behind��� waiver LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� California���s selfstyled bid to avoid the strict requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind law has failed as widely anticipated. State Superintendent Tom Torlakson said Friday that U.S. Department of Education officials informed him that they were prepared to reject the state���s waiver application, although the denial has not yet been formally issued. ������I look forward to thoroughly examining the rationale the Administration provides for its decision and will continue to explore every avenue for providing California���s schools and students the relief they deserve,������ Torlakson said in a statement. After missing two deadlines for waivers, California submitted in June a last-minute, customized exemption from 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, as No Child Left Behind is formally known, saying that even though it did not comply with the specifics of some waiver requirements, it was adhering to them in principle. U.S. education officials did not return a request for comment on Wednesday. The department has received a total of 47 waiver requests. Approvals have been issued to 33 states and the District of Columbia so far. Under the law���s main provision, schools must raise all students to proficiency levels in English-language arts and math by 2014. If not, they could suffer penalties, including losing federal money. Critics have long charged that No Child Left Behind is too inflexible and relies too heavily on standardized test scores. The result has been that too many schools have been classified as failing, they See BID, page 7A The brewers created a series of Ovila Abbey ales inspired by Belgian Trappist monks, an order that to this day makes some of the finest beers in the world. Monasteries in Europe still use brewing as a way to keep them financially self-sufficient, so Sierra Nevada���s partnership with the Vina monastery is keeping with a tradition that began in the Middle Ages. Sierra Nevada Brewing and the monks have raised $7 million over the past 12 years to help with the historic and painstaking reconstruction. The gothic, limestone building that housed Cistercian monks for See BEER, page 7A The Tehama County Board of Supervisors continued to offer its support Dec. 18 for a plan to bring robust broadband infrastructure to Northern California���s most rural locations. The board authorized Chairman Bob Williams to sign a letter in support of seeking grant funding to be used for broadband infrastructure deployment in Northern California. The Northeastern California Connect and Upstate California Connect Consortia hope to develop and implement a broadband infrastructure plan for Butte, Colusa, Del Norte, Glenn, Humboldt, Lake, Lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Tehama, Trinity and Yolo counties. A California advanced Services Fund Infrastructure Program grant is being pursued through the California Public Utilities Commission to pay for the plan. One of the goals is to reach a National Broadband Plan recommendation of homes having access to actual download speeds of at least 100 megabits per second and actual upload speeds of at least 50 megabits per second. Although at the current technological pace those speeds could be surpassed See PLAN, page 7A Dinner proceeds to provide ag scholarships Daily News photo by Chip Thompson Pictured with a guitar donated by The Gold Exchange, from left, are Scholarship Committee Chairman Richard Buchner, Farm Advisor Josh Davy, Cattlewomen Dinner Chairwoman Cathy Tobin, Cattlemen Dinner Chairman Andy Cox and Cattlemen President Steve Zane. The 61st annual Winter Dinner is scheduled for 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5 at the Tehama District Fairground. Tickets are $25 in advance at Rabobank and PremierWest Bank, $30 at the door with proceeds going to agricultural scholarships awarded by the Tehama County Cattlemen and Cattlewomen associations. 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 545 DIAMOND AVE., RED BLUFF