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WEDNESDAY Curing FEBRUARY 13, 2013 Athletes of the Week Meat Country Fare Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 68/40 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 Westminster win Body found in burned cabin BIG BEAR (AP) ��� The extraordinary manhunt for the former Los Angeles police officer suspected of three murders converged Tuesday on a mountain cabin where he was believed to have barricaded himself inside, engaged in a shootout that killed a deputy and then never emerged as the home went up in flames. A single gunshot was heard from within, and a charred body was found inside. If the man inside proves to be Christopher Dorner, the search for the most wanted man in America over the last week would have ended the way he had expected ��� death, with the police pursuing him. Thousands of officers had been on the hunt for the for- See BODY, page 7A City to solicit pool donations By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Courtesy photo Riverside Telltails Coco Posh, a four-year-old Cardigan Welsh Corgi, better known by her family as Coco, was named Grand Champion of her breed at the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York. She is owned by Julie and Bill Divens of Red Bluff. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer On Monday, a local girl was named Grand Champion of her breed at the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York. Known to her family as Coco, the four-year-old Cardigan Welsh Corgi, formally known by her call name of Riverside Telltails Coco Posh, is owned by Salmon King Lodge owners and Red Bluff residents Julie and Bill Divens. Coco is being handled at the prestigious New York show by Julie Divens��� sister Deb Shindle and spent Monday evening in the herding competition, Divens said. ���At home, she���s just another lov- ing member of the family who loves to play frisbee and chase lizards,��� Divens said Monday. ���I am just so excited that my Cardigan Welsh Corgi successfully won her breed. I���m still behaving like a stunned person.��� The Red Bluff couple has See WIN, page 7A The city of Red Bluff is hoping to raise funds for McGlynn Pool���s operational costs through voluntary donations on residents��� water bills. If the fundraising effort sounds familiar, it���s because it is. The city has used the same program to raise funds for the police department���s K9 unit. However this time the council has authorized city staff to solicit voluntary donations to pay for the costs of keeping the pool operational. In previous years the pool���s operations have been funded by donations from Blues for the Pool and the city���s general fund. Blues for the Pool had indicated to the city that future donations will be for pool improvements and not operational costs. According to a staff report, that will leave an operation funding hole of around $36,000. Following a major resurfacing project last summer, the pool is expected to be open for a longer season. Residents will be asked if they would like to add $1 to their monthly water bill that would be deposited into a McGlynn Pool account. Around 4,500 citizens receive a utility bill from the city each month. The K9 program has turned out to be widely successful. Police Chief Paul Nanfito said the department usually only needs a few months to collect its needed funds for the year. An insert will be mailed out with an upcoming water bill explaining the program. Big asteroid to Students to present The Diviners flash by earth, but will miss By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer By ROGER H. AYLWORTH MediaNews Group In less than a week, an object flying at eight times the velocity of a high-speed rifle bullet, and with the explosive potential of 2.4 million tons of TNT, will zip past the earth so close that it will fly within the orbits of communications and navigation satellites. But NASA scientists say it poses no risk to our planet. The object, asteroid 2012 DA14, was discovered almost exactly a year ago by a team of skywatchers in Spain. In a teleconference conducted Thursday, a group of NASA's top scientists spent an hour telling the world's press the precise orbit of the roughly 150-foot-diameter rock has no chance of hitting earth. Speaking from his office in Pasadena, Donald Yeomans, manager of the Near Earth Object Office, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, confidently predicted the asteroid, at 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 its closest approach, will pass between 17,100 and 17,200 miles over Indonesia in the dark of Feb. 15. At that closest approach, the asteroid will be too dim to be seen with the naked eye and its extreme speed would make it hard to observe even if one could find it in the heavens. The scientists say Australia would be the best place to view DA14, but that would require a sophisticated telescope. Yeomans said even though the asteroid poses no danger to earth, it still is a record breaker because it is the largest object ever observed this close to earth. He said NASA believes an asteroid does a near-earth flyby about once every 40 years and one hits the earth about once every 1,200 years, but rocks the size of this asteroid are rare. Lindley Johnson, program executive, NearEarth Object Observations Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington D.C., said if the object was on a slightly different trajectory and did hit earth, it would not have See ASTEROID, page 7A For those looking for something different for Valentine���s Day there is always the Red Bluff Union High School play, which opens on Thursday. Under the direction of Cleo Gambetta, who said she has been directing at the school since 1976, students will present ���The Diviners��� at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the Performing Arts Center. Cost to see the show is $3. ���This play is a tough one in terms of the depth of acting,��� Gambetta said. Student Bethany Strom will take on the role of stage manager while Caitlin Ruszczyk will take on the role of Jenny May Laymen and Evan Meagher will play her brother Buddy Laymen. The role of itinerant preacher C.C. Showers who travels to Zion, Ind. looking for work where he meets the Laymen family. John Bookout will play the role of Jenny May and Buddy���s father. ���It���s the story of an itinerant preacher during the depression who travels to Zion, Ind. and becomes a part of the Laymen family,��� Gambetta said. ���He becomes a special friend of Buddy who became brain damaged in a near drowning incident as a child where his mother died.��� Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff High School students practice for the presentation of ���The Diviners,��� which opens at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14. Pictured, from left, are Caitlin Ruszczyk, Evan Meagher and Miles Leyva. PHYSICIAN REFERRAL Smog Inspection $ 2595PICK-UPS) (MOST CARS & +$825 certificate 530 527-9841 195 S. Main St. Red Bluff A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1-888-628-1948