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WEEKEND FEBRUARY 23-24 2013 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com Replacing Incandescents Country Life Page 3B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Mostly sunny 59/38 Weather forecast 10A TEHAMA COUNTY $1.00 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 CHP officer hurt in Dairyville collision By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A Red Bluff California Highway Patrol Officer was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding Thursday evening following a collision on Highway 99E in the Dairyville area. CHP Public Information Officer Jake Bushey said the injured officer is Dave Madrigal, who was shot in the leg during an eight-hour stand-off in Gerber in 2008. ���We are not allowed to release specific injuries,��� Bushey said. ���He will need surgery, but he is expected to make it.��� According to the CHP press release, Madrigal, driving a specially marked CHP 2005 white Ford Crown Victoria, was responding to a Tehama County Sheriff���s Department call for assistance at the time. About 6:40 p.m., Madrigal, a 22-year CHP veteran, was driving south on 99E, just north of Eldrid Avenue, when he received a request to assist in pursuit of a stolen vehicle. Madrigal activated his emergency lights, pulled to the right shoulder and began to make a U-turn when his vehicle was hit bye a southbound 1994 Jeep Cherokee, the release said. Madrigal was able to notify Hatchery earns award Redding CHP dispatch via radio of the collision and request assistance. Several 911 calls from residents in the area were received. Assistance was given by the sheriff���s department, Red Bluff Police, CalFire and CHP units See CHP, page 9A Crews upgrading electrical circuit in west Corning Special to the DN Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) utility crews will start work next week on a project in Corning to upgrade the local electric system to provide more reliable service to customers. Crews will install more than 10,000 feet of highvoltage power lines and replace 30 wooden utility poles with all new equipment to help reduce both the number See CORNING, page 9A County���s exhibit for State Fair at risk By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Daily News file photo SACRAMENTO ��� The Bureau of Reclamation���s Mid-Pacific Region was honored Feb. 20 by the American Society of Civil Engineers with the Small Project of the Year Award for the development of the Coleman National Fish Hatchery Barrier Weir Site and Viewing Platform Project on Battle Creek about 9 miles southeast of Anderson. As the project manager and funding agency, Reclamation contracted with Contractor Service Group, Inc. to construct the project, which provides visitors to the hatchery with a bird���s eye view of returning salmon as they enter the Senate Dems slip below two-thirds with resignation SACRAMENTO (AP) ��� A Central Valley lawmaker resigned unexpectedly Friday, creating a vacancy that dropped Democrats below the twothirds threshold they need to pass tax changes or override vetoes. The loss, however, was expected to be temporary and not have major impacts on the majority party���s clout. State Sen. Michael Rubio, a moderate Democrat from the San Joaquin Valley town of Shafter, which is near Bakersfield, announced that he was stepping down immediately to take a government affairs job with Chevron Corp. He was in the middle of his first term in the Sen- ate after being elected with 60 percent of the vote in 2010. His resignation comes on top of recent vacancies but Democrats were already expecting to face difficulties in some of their goals later in the year, such as cementing a controversial $150 fee on rural residents whose homes are at risk from wildfires. Republicans, meanwhile, were expected to have a difficult time capitalizing on the vacancies in Democraticleaning districts. In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Friday, Rubio said the job of a legislator had kept him away too often from his wife and two daughters. ������With me, family comes first. And over the holiday break, my wife and I, through a lot of thought and prayer, made a decision that I would not be running for re-election,������ he said. hatchery���s fish ladder for spawning. The project consists of an elevated viewing platform that cantilevers over the water and a fish ladder. With the project���s completion, hundreds of school children experienced the bird���s eye view of spawnSee AWARD, page 9A The threat of Tehama County not having an exhibit at the California State Fair has presented itself once again. The Tehama County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to discuss discontinuing the development of a 2013 exhibit at its 10 a.m. Tuesday meeting. The board will discuss the level of support and funding for a 2014 exhibit as well as the possibility of contracting with a display builder in the future. Citing budget woes and decreased contributions the board nixed the exhibit in 2012. After hearing of the decision a group of con- cerned residents raised money and created a display for the county last year. ���The considerable time, effort, commitment and expense involved in last year���s display has forced the same citizens group to decline the project in 2013,��� a county staff report reads. Linda Durrer, one of the group���s organizers, is exploring options to raise funds for an improved display in 2014. Durrer���s group has asked the county to increase the fair exhibit budget and solicit bids from multiple builders in order to improve its quality. See EXHIBIT, page 9A RBPD hands out department honors Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff Police handed out 33 awards at Thursday���s award ceremony. Recipients pictured back row, from left: Ofc. Alan Gilbert, School Resource Officer Aaron Murray, Sgt. Kevin Busekist, Cpl. Mike Brown, Ofc. Ruben Murgia, Ofc. Joe Rossi, Sgt. Matt Hansen, Sgt. Josiah Ferrin, Detective Scott Curtis. Front row, from left: Dispatch Supervisor Cindee Spurgeon, Records Manager Deborah Tompkins, Dispatcher Kim McIvor, Executive Assistant to the Chief Farrah Morris, Dispatcher Jane Hoover, Ofc. Sean Baxter, Ofc. Matt Coker, Cpl. Kevin Hale, Ofc. Kevin Bowen and Lt. Dan Flowerdew. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Red Bluff Police Department gathered Thursday to honor its own, handing out 33 awards varying from length of service to meritorious conduct. ���We are here today to recognize the hard work that the men and women of the Red Bluff Police Department accomplished during calendar year 2012,��� Chief Paul Nanfito said. ���All of the employees of the police department did an outstanding job handling more than 30,000 calls for service. Each year the Red Bluff Police Awards Committee reviews the activities, accomplishments, and actions of members of this Department that may be deserving of special recognition. I congratulate all of those whom we recognize today for their efforts and contribution.��� The awards started off with a cerSee RBPD, page 9A