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WEDNESDAY Bull Sale JANUARY 23, 2013 Winning Pace Section Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 1B-3B SPORTS 1C DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Rain likely 54/39 Weather forecast 6A 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 Bull Sale kicks off County hit with string of burglaries The Tehama County Sheriff's Department are investigating three burglaries that were recently reported. • On Monday a 43-year-old man reported his office area on Chico Court had been burglarized sometime over the weekend. The suspects entered the office area through an unlocked front door. A custom black computer, an Asus 27-inch computer monitor, a black Logitech keyboard and black Logitech mouse were taken. The estimated loss was $3,100. • A 74-year-old Corning man reported a burglary to See STRING, page 5A Highway 99 lanes to shift during construction in Chico By ROGER H. AYLWORTH Chico Enterprise-Record Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Robbie Burt of St. Cloud, Minn., gets water for hot chocolate at the Bull Sale Kickoff Breakfast held Tuesday. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale is off and running following the official opening at the Kickoff Breakfast on Tuesday. "I'd like to thank Merck for being here," Bull Sale Manager Adam Owens said. "This is something we started a few years ago and it's turned into a nice thing to learn about new products. It's a lot of work to create this partnership on their end and ours." Dr. Eric Moore, a Merck Technical Services Manager out of Topeka, Kan., was the featured speaker at the Beef Forum held in conjunction with the breakfast along with local Merck representative Jeff Gates. Moore, who was introduced by Gates as being "back by popular demand," talked about antimicrobials, substances used to combat an infection, and the latest products his company offers. "Antimocrobials is a big issue and it's become a big deal for the beef industry," Moore said. Safety of the substances like the ones Merck uses is an issue of public concern. In response, Moore's company has formed the Food Chains Affairs team to look at that issue, he said. While the new tools in the box are better, they require a much more restrictive process that's sometimes "an uphill battle," Moore said. The key to antimicrobial selection is finding the right drug for the right bug and using it at the correct time, place and amount, he said. The newest drug Merck has for fighting Bovine Respiratory Disease (BRD) is Zuprevo, which is able to get into the animal's lungs where the problem is within 45 minutes and stays solely in the lungs for 28 days, Moore said. "It's long-lasting and fast acting," Moore said. "We're changing the science of it so it's safer for people to give." It also works better because it concentrates on the lung, which is See BULL, page 5A CHICO — Both northbound and southbound right-hand lanes on Highway 99 will soon be closed and the traffic shifted into the former median to make way for the erection of sound walls in the ongoing construction project. The lane swap will happen between Highway 32 on the south and East First Avenue on the north. Caltrans spokesman Gilbert Mohtes-Chan explained this part of the Highway 99 project is called a "freeway reconfiguration." Since construction began in 2011, additional lanes yet to be opened to traffic have been constructed over the entire length of the project. Mohtes-Chan said in the near future the pavement will be re-striped to direct drivers into the new lanes. The current fast lanes will become the new slow lanes and the newly constructed lanes will be the fast lanes. Mohtes-Chan said the highway will continue to have two lanes in each direction. Existing construction zone traffic barriers, called "K-rails," will be moved to the inner edge of the current slow lanes to give the construction crews a safe place to erect sound walls along the outside edges of the highway. Where the freeway passes over Bidwell Park the sound walls will be mounted on the viaduct, according to MohtesChan. Elsewhere the walls will go up on the sides of the elevated embankment of the freeway. Except for brief halts necessitated by short-term construction efforts, traffic on the roads under the Bidwell Park viaduct should not be interrupted, according to the Caltrans spokesman. South Park Drive, which near the freeway is open to only equestrians, See LANES, page 5A Cal State system Tyrell receives achievement award has $250 million funding gap LONG BEACH (AP) — California State University officials said Tuesday they will need nearly $250 million more in state funding for the next academic year than is currently proposed, an amount that Gov. Jerry Brown called ''a dream more than reality.'' Brown warned the board of trustees at its Tuesday meeting that any request for funding more than the currently slated $125 million for 2013-14 will be hard to push through the Legislature. ''Look, it's a tight ship and it's going to get tighter,'' he said. ''We're going to have to do some, how shall I say it — very creative, very thoughtful, very caring adjustments.'' Brown, who is a member of the board by virtue of his office, attended the trustees' meeting for the second time in a row, a sign that he is paying close attention to public 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 higher education spending and policies. Last week, he also attended the University of California board of regents meeting for the second time. CSU Assistant Vice Chancellor Robert Turnage told trustees that the system will need nearly $372 million in additional funds to pay for items ranging from salary raises to maintenance and equipment. Brown has agreed to give CSU $125 million extra under the condition that the university will not raise tuition. Of that amount, $10 million will be spent to expand online education, which is one of Brown's initiatives to serve more students at a lower cost. Last month, CSU launched Cal State Online, online courses designed to offer more of the basic courses that are often the most crowded. Brown said that if the public universities don't make a radical change in how they provide education, students will have to See GAP, page 5A Jack Tyrell, a Tehama County Animal Care Center volunteer, received the first George P. Russell Outstanding Achievement award this past week during the annual team meeting of the center. Sharon Russell, president of P.E.T.S (Providing Essentials to Tehama Shelter) and wife of the late George Russell, was present during the ceremony, along with staff, volunteers and various animal welfare and rescue groups who had gathered for the meeting on Jan. 15. In observance of Russell's love of animals and his unfailing dedication to the improvement of quality of life for all living beings, the award honors those who have also dedicated their efforts and significantly contributed to the well-being and care of the center's residents. "In 2012 we lost a great man in George Russell," said Mark Storrey, manager of the Tehama County Animal Care Center. "We wanted to do something that would honor his memory and his lifetime dedication to improving the lives of so many. "Jack Tyrrell is someone that devotes countless See AWARD, page 5A Courtesy photo PHYSICIAN REFERRAL COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR Smog Inspection $ 2595 +$825 certificate (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) 195 S. Main St. Red Bluff 530 527-9841 A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1-888-628-1948