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TUESDAY Year in Sports JANUARY 1, 2013 Breaking news at: SPORTS 1B www.redbluffdailynews.com DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 55/29 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 2012 in review Ponderosa Fire burns Manton On Aug. 18, a huge cloud some described as a mushroom cloud arose out of the eastern sky in the early afternoon. The cloud was smoke pouring into the sky from the lightning-caused Ponderosa Fire that devastated areas of Manton and Shingletown. Reported about 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, the fire burned 27,676 acres in Tehama and Shasta counties before it was finally contained on Aug. 31. In its wake, seven people were injured, 52 residences and 81 outbuilding were destroyed and one residence and five outbuildings were damaged. Highway 36E was closed at a vista point and evacuees, initially sent several places including Manton School, finally congregated at the Big League Dreams Sports Park in Redding. At its peak on Aug. 24, 254 engines and 47 fire crews along with 54 water tenders battled the blaze that drew national media attention. The fire destroyed the Boole Ditch Water System, which burned in a matter of hours on the first day, according to Manton Volunteer Fire Department personnel. On Nov. 6, about 80 days after it was destroyed by the fire, the final pieces of the Boole Ditch Water System were restored, costing $700,000 instead of initial estimates of $2 million. In light of the emergency, several people involved in the project reduced costs and waived permit costs. Several Manton residents reported seeing the cloud as far away Dunnigan, and Rebah Heino and her family saw it from the Tehama District Fairground. Attending a goat show in Red Bluff, the family had to evacuate 89 goats and several cats and dogs, which they did with the help of friends and others attending the show. The family took shelter at the fairgrounds initially before finding a place for some of the animals with friends. The fairgrounds hosted CalFire, becoming a fire camp, for about 20 days. A full-blown city went up within 36-hours, according to Fair CEO Mark Eidman, the sea of mostly red fire engines brought some much needed relief to the fairground. Following Gov. Jerry Brown���s elimination of state funding for fairs, the Tehama District Fair has been looking for alternate means of supporting itself. The fairground earned $3,750 a day plus utilities and damages, which came to about $80,000 for the 20-day stay. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Daily News file photo The Ponderosa Fire in Manton was the top story in 2012. Toward the end of the fire camp, the fairgrounds hosted another group, the Wall that Heals, a traveling, scaled-down version of the Vietnam Memorial Wall. The wall was visited by 19,000 people, including some of the fire personnel brought in for the Ponderosa Fire, and raised about $24,000 for the education center being built near the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington D.C. GOP musical chairs When Wally Herger announced in January 2012 he was retiring from Congress after 26 years of service it set off a game of North State Republican musical chairs that is still being played into the new year. During his retirement press conference, Herger announced he was endorsing State Sen. Doug LaMalfa to succeed him in Washington. Later that week, Assemblyman Jim Nielsen said he wouldn���t be seeking another term in the State Assembly, but would instead pursue LaMalfa���s vacated Senate Seat, should LaMalfa win Herger���s vacated Congressional spot. A week later, Assemblyman Dan Logue said he had intentions of moving to Chico and running for the newly configured 3rd Assembly District. During an interview he didn���t rule out the possibility of running for LaMalfa���s vacated Senate Seat, should it become available. Before January ended, former State Sen. Sam Aanestad threw his name into the mix for Congress. The field filled further with Republicans Pete Stiglich, Gregory Cheadle and Michael Dacquisto joining LaMalfa and Aanestad in the U.S. 1st Congressional District race along with Democrats Jim Reed, Nathan Arrowsmith and indepen- dent Gary Allen Oxley. In June LaMalfa and Reed won the Top 2 primary and were set for a runoff in the November election. Meanwhile Logue found competition from within his own party for the 3rd Assembly District seat when Tehama County Supervisor Bob Williams entered the race. The pair were joined by Corning Democrat Charles Rouse. Logue and Rouse garnered the most votes in the primary. In late August LaMalfa announced he would resign early from the State Senate. He said the move would save taxpayers $2 million by allowing the governor to combine a special election to fill his seat with the November General Election. In the end it didn���t. As he said he would, Nielsen entered the special election for the 4th Senate District, but so did Logue, who was also on the ballot for the State Assembly after winning the primary in June. Those two were joined by Democrat Mickey Harrington and Independents Ben Emery, Dan Levine and Jann Reed in an election in which a candidate would need a majority of the vote to avoid a special run-off between the Top 2 vote getters. In October, citing health reasons, Logue dropped his bid for the State Senate, but said he would continue to seek a spot in the Assembly. His name remained on the Senate ballot, along with Emery, who also dropped out early. Nielsen wound up 0.3 percent short of the majority he needed to avoid a runoff. Logue still received 11.5 percent of the senate vote and Emery 1.9 percent. A runoff between Nielsen and Harrington, who finished a distant second with 27.7 percent is scheduled for Jan. 8 at a cost of millions for the 4th District counties. LaMalfa easily won Year in Review by JULIE ZEEB and RICH GREENE Daily News staff writers the Congressional seat that started the game to begin with and Logue remained in the Assembly in the newly drawn 3rd District. AB-109 Tehama County officials began the year by backing off a plan to create a 38-acre inmate work farm, but ended it by lauding the success of an inmate-manned auto shop. Both were designed with the intention to comply with Assembly Bill 109, a statewide prison realignment plan that became law in October 2011. The transfer of wouldbe parolees with non-violent, non-sexual and nonserious convictions to county probation departments stressed jail capaci- ty and resources, despite $1.4 million in state funding. With a state-rated capacity of 200, the county jail had been maintaining a regular population of around 205 to 210 inmates in the early part of the year. County officials had proposed building an inmate work farm on land next to the landfill at the entrance to the Westage residential community at the end of Plymire Road to help ease the jail population by using a workrelease program. But at a January Board of Supervisors meeting more than 70 local residents filled the chambers to protest. After nearly two hours of discussion the board nixed plans to proceed ��� at least at that location. In March the board approved a public safety realignment plan created by the Community Corrections Partnership. The plan included a work farm as its cornerstone project and steers toward community programs and away from expanding jail space. One of those programs was an inmate auto shop, which was opened July 16. Approved offenders work an 8-hour shift at the shop fixing and maintaining county vehicles. The workers return home with GPS bracelets and are monitored by urinalysis testing as part of the program. A day reporting center was opened by the end of the year at Wetter Hall to handle about 55 offenders per day with daily checkins, rehabilitation programs and a work-release garden. The county���s public guardian and administrator officers were relocated to the Administrative Building as part of the process. CHP murder Months later no one knows why 36-year-old Christopher Lacy shot and killed a California Highway Patrol officer the morning of Sept. 4 in the Bay Area. What is known is the Rancho Tehama resident was stopped while commuting to work on Interstate 680 in Alamo for an obscured license plate on his Jeep Wrangler. CHP Officer Kenyon Youngstrom at the time was working to remove a deer carcass from the road when his partner Tyler Carlton asked him to assist with the enforceSee 2012, page 7A Daily News file photo Rep. Sen. Doug LaMalfa, pictured here on the Primary Election night, was one of several key North State Republicans to shuffle offices in 2012. 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