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WEDNESDAY Homemade FEBRUARY 20, 2013 Athletes of the Week Soup, Stock County Fare Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Mostly sunny 55/36 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 Twister hits Gerber Man arrested in fight over puppy By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer An 18-year-old Red Bluff man was arrested Monday behind Little Caesars Pizza on Main Street after getting into an altercation over a puppy. Trevor Dean Blankenship was booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of brandishing or exhibiting a deadly weapon: not a firearm and attempted assault with a deadly weapon. Bail was set at $16,000. Red Bluff Police logs show an initial report at 12:43 p.m. of a man reporting there was a boy wearing only his boxer shorts that was hitting a puppy. The man said he took the puppy away from Blankenship at which point the boy threatened him. Officers responded and learned Blankenship had set See PUPPY, page 7A Wine, Food & Art Festival Saturday Photo courtesy of Bianca Torres A funnel cloud touches down along San Benito Avenue in Gerber Tuesday afternoon. DN Staff Report A winter storm brought rain, hail and reports of tornado activity Tuesday afternoon to Tehama County. According to the National Weather Service a tornado was located near Vina, about eight miles east of Corning and moved southeast at 5 mph. Several eyewitnesses snapped photos and took video of a funnel cloud in Gerber. The NWS reported Doppler radar indicated the tornado. Meteorologist Johnnie Powell told the Associated Press a ������weak������ tornado was spotted north of Red Bluff on Tuesday shortly after 1:30 p.m. Powell said the light funnel cloud had a preliminary rating of F0, meaning that it may have had winds speeds Watch Video at redbluffdailynews.com Daily News photo by Chip Thompson This metal building about a quarter-mile east of San Benito Avenue just south of Gerber was damaged by a funnel cloud Tuesday afternoon. reaching between 40 to 70 mph while causing little or no damage in the area. A metal storage building about a quarter-mile east of San Benito Avenue just south of Gerber appeared to have had its roof torn up by the funnel cloud. A Tornado Warning was issued until 2:45 p.m. Tuesday for parts of Butte, Glenn and south central Tehama counties. A significant weather advisory was in place for most of the day and into Wednesday calling for the potential for thunderstorm activities. The storm came out of the Gulf of Alaska, bringing the first significant rainfall to the region in several weeks, NWS said, and leaving a new batch of snow in the Sierra Nevada. The Associated Press contributed to this report. Get your taste buds ready for the Seventh Annual Corning Rotary Wine, Food & Art Festival and Chowder Challenge at Rolling Hills Casino from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. The annual festival is a major fundraiser to benefit local charities. Admission is $10 and includes $5 free slot play. There is a $1 tasting fee at each booth. The event is a showcase for locally produced olive oils, beers, wines, cheeses, walnuts, honey, candy and produce. According to Corning Rotarian Steve Kimbraugh, more than 30 wineries, breweries and specialty food vendors are participating this year. Attendees can sample entries in the Chowder cook-off and vote for their favorite. Eight organizations have entered the challenge. Though not competing, Rolling Hills Casino chefs plan to cook big pots of chowder for the event. Art lovers will enjoy the exhibit of paintings, photography, pottery and sculptures by local artists. ���In addition to art work from Corning High School, Centennial High School, the Tehama Photo Club, and the Corning Art Association, we have pottery by Andy Freeman of Corning, pottery by David Chohlidakis of Red Bluff, paintings by Beth Bjorklund of Orland, Carol vanTol of Willows, Suzanne Bears of Redding, Jeanine Kearney of Redding, and Helen Pitkin of Corning, and glass art by Molly Butson of Red Bluff,��� said Rotarian Tony Cardenas. Live entertainment is a popular feature of the festival. This year���s entertainment roster includes the Holly Taylor and Eric Peter duo, Jonathan Arthur, the Alison Scull and Victor Martin duo, and the Mumblefinger trio. Immediately following the festival is a free concert by up and coming blues artist Max Cabello, Jr. In between musical performances, Sous Chefs Randall Mair and Greg King and Executive Chef Hobart Vogel will demonstrate how to make some of their favorite dishes. They haven���t announced what they are making yet, but those in the know say it will be delicious. ���The best part of the demonstrations is sampling the food,��� said Laurie Dana, who attends the festival every year. Money raised will help fund scholarships, education programs and community revitalization projects such as the countywide dictionary project that distributes hardbound dictionaries to every third grade student in Tehama County, the Youth Basketball program, the School Bookshelf project and the construction of drinking fountains, bleachers and the Martini Plaza in Corning. Shooting spree across Calif county leaves 4 dead Man caught on video arrested in burglaries TUSTIN (AP) ��� A violent rampage that left four dead in suburban Orange County began in the predawn hours Tuesday when a 20-year-old killed a woman in his home and sped away in his parents��� car, authorities said. An hour later, it was over ��� but not before Ali Syed had killed two more people during carjackings, shot up vehicles on a busy freeway interchange and left three others injured in a trail of carnage that stretched across 25 miles. One driver was forced from his BMW at a stop sign, marched to a curb and shot in the back of the head as other commuters DN Staff Writer 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 watched in horror. ������He was basically executed,������ Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said. ������There were at least six witnesses.������ Syed later killed himself. He lived with his parents at the Ladera Ranch residence where the first victim, an unidentified woman in her 20s, was slain, Tustin police Chief Scott Jordan said. He was unemployed, taking one class at a local community college, Jordan said. The woman was not related to the shooter and it wasn���t known what she was doing at the home, said Orange County sheriff���s spokesman Jim Amormino. Syed���s parents were in the house at the time, fled the residence when shots See SPREE, page 7A By JULIE ZEEB A 46-year-old Red Bluff man was arrested Monday on Aloha Street and booked into Tehama County Jail on three counts of burglary after breaking into vending machines at multiple locations. A Red Bluff Police officer responded to a laundromat in the in the FoodMaxx shopping center for a theft report, where he learned someone had stolen the dollar bill changer, loss of $400, a vending machine coin can, loss of $500, and an undisclosed amount of coin from within the machine, Sgt. Michael Graham said. A copy of the video surveillance showed the suspect, later identified as Duane Allan Baker, and a green vehicle he had driven to the Laundromat, which included the vehicle���s license plate, Graham said. Officers were later sent to the Best Western Motel, where the owner reported an initial theft from a Coke vending machine, believed to have taken place on Thursday, and another theft from a vending machine on Sunday. The motel owner was able to provided video surveillance of the man, who matched the description of the suspect in video surveillance from the laundromat, Graham said. During both thefts at the motel, Baker looked directly into one of the video surveillance cameras, Graham said. Officers located and arrested Baker at a home in the 1400 block of Aloha Street, where they also found several stolen parts of the vending machines, Graham said. Baker was additionally booked on one count of possession of an altered key used to break into the machines. 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