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TUESDAY Working Out After An Injury FEBRUARY 26, 2013 Masters Champ Vitality Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 68/38 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 Millions of fed dollars going unused Day to remember By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer dors. ���A part of it was that a lot of the wineries are small operations and some of them expressed concern about how hard it was to do a two-day event,��� Cardenas said. ���It was the same thing with the chowder contest. We probably made pretty close to what we did last year and everyone seemed happy with a one-day event.��� While there may have been fewer people than usual, it was definitely more than the event usually drew for one day, Cardenas said. First place in the clam chowder contest went to Willows Rotary followed by Corning Rotary in second. In addition to the contest, there were cooking demonstrations by Rolling Hills staff. Art exhibitor Suzanne Bears, who does quite a bit of commissioned work, said she was quite pleased with the show. With everything from a portrait of a Native Three Corning residents were captured Saturday evening in the process of committing a burglary at a South Street residence, including one captured by Corning Police K-9, Oso. Officers were sent at 10:52 p.m. Saturday after a security guard at a nearby business reported seeing people enter a residence in the 1200 block of South Street through a window, according to a Corning Police press release. The guard told police that two of the people entered the front window and a third person went around to the rear of the house. Corning Police had received a call from the occupants the night before informing the department it would be vacant and that no one should be there. A second call was received from a woman on Fourth Street who told officers she saw three people get out of a red car in front of her home and start looking around the neighborhood. Officers put up a perimeter, called in an off-duty K-9 handler and two officers from the California Highway Patrol. Upon Oso���s arrival, multiple announcements were made by officers, ordering the occupants to come out, however, no one replied and Oso was sent in. One of the three suspects Oso located hiding in the basement, identified as Sergio Samanigo Rodriguez, 19, was taken into custody by the K9. The other two, Edgar Cervantes, 20, and a 17-year-old girl, were taken into custody by officers. Rodriguez, who suffered a bite puncture wound, was medically cleared at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital before being booked into jail. Rodriguez and Cervantes were See DAY, page 7A See K-9, page 7A By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer An advocacy organization focused on increasing nutrition for low-income Californians says Tehama County is missing out on $9.86 million in economic activity from the underutilization of the CalFresh program. California Food Policy Advocates released its annual Program Access Index report last week examining the number of CalFresh recipients versus the number of people who are eligible for the program formerly known as food stamps. Tehama County ranks near the middle of the state, but the organization���s reports estimate between 4,300 and 7,871 qualified residents may not be utilizing the program. That amounts to around $5.51 million in additional federal funded benefits being lost in Tehama County and a resulting $9.86 million in economic activity. The organization estimates Tehama County is losing out $24,783 to $45,470 in sales tax revenue. U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows California has the nation���s lowest participation result with only 55 percent of those eligible taking advantage of federally funded programs. ���Stigma, misinformation about eligibility and complicated enrollment processes all contribute to low CalFresh participation,��� said a press release by the organization. K-9 catches burglar in Corning Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Debbie Bryson of Chico, left, talks with Art Exhibitor Suzanne Bears of Gerber about her work Saturday during the Corning Rotary Art, Wine and Food Festival held in the Carlino���s Event Center. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The room was packed Saturday in the Carlino���s Event Center at Rolling Hills Casino for the annual Corning Rotary Art, Wine and Food Festival. Even the tent where the clam chowder contest took place next to the event center was full and crowds were steady throughout the day, Rotary Club member and Corning City Councilwoman Willie Smith said. ���We estimate we had about 1,000 people,��� Rotary President Tony Cardenas said. ���It was a success. I���d like to thank all the people who volunteered to help out and to all the vendors for all that they did. It���s a total community effort. I���d especially like to thank Rolling Hills Casino and their staff. Without them and their staff, there���s no way we could have put on this event.��� In previous years, the event was a two-day venture, however, for 2013 it moved to a oneday event at the request of some of its ven- Two injured in Walnut demand puts new trees on backlog collision with semi By HEATHER HACKING MediaNews Group Photo courtesy of Ross Palubeski Two Red Bluff residents were injured in a sedan versus semi collision reported at 3:11 p.m. Saturday on southbound Interstate 5, south of Riverside Avenue. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Two Red Bluff residents were injured in a sedan versus semi collision at 3:11 p.m. Saturday on southbound Interstate 5, south of Riverside Avenue. Jesse Miller and his passenger, Summer Lafoa, both 20, were taken to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with major injuries, California Highway Patrol Officer Jake Bushey said. The driver of the semi truck, identified as James Selby, 56, of Inglewood, was uninjured, Bushey said. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Both vehicles had been driving south on I-5 with Miller���s 1992 Honda Prelude in the left lane at an unknown speed and the semi in the right lane at 56 mph at the time of the collision, Bushey said. For unknown reasons, Miller made a turning movement, causing him to lose control of the Honda, veering toward the center divider before sliding toward the southbound lanes, Bushey said. Selby saw the Honda and steered away from it in an attempt to avoid a collision, but was unable to do so, Bushey said. The front of the semi collided with the right side of Honda, sending both vehicles into the center divider, where they came to rest. The walnut industry has done a good job of reintroducing the nut, which had found itself mostly as an ingredient in grandma's brownies. But consumers in the United States and overseas have embraced research of the health benefits of nuts in general, including lowering cholesterol. This has translated to a better market for the tree food, which happens to grow well in the Sacramento Valley. The trend is for farmers to plant more trees, which has created a backlog for the nurseries that produce them. Currently, a grower who wants to plant more walnuts can get on a list to buy them in 2015. Farmers have important decisions to make when they replant an orchard, which will remain a source of income for about 20 years. About a dozen years ago, growers couldn���t plant enough almond trees. Now those trees are in prime production. ���All the nut crops are doing very well,��� said Joe Connell, UC Cooperative Extension farm adviser. Markets for almonds, pistachios and walnuts have expanded, and prices are firm. In 2011, with good Media News Group photo by Ty Barbour/Chico Enterprise-Record Sarvino Rodriguez stands in a traveling hoist bucket to trim young walnut trees in an orchard along Fimple Road in southwest Chico Feb. 18. returns per pound, walnuts rose to the No. 1 economic crop in Butte County. One change locally was the storm of 2008, when almond trees blew over in the heavy winds. Some losses were so great that entire orchards were replaced. One choice was walnuts. Walnut trees regain their leaves later in the season, and tend not to blow over like earlyblooming almonds. Other advantages of walnuts is that they do not need bees for pollination; The price of renting bees has increased dramatically in the past seven years. Lee Heringer grows both walnuts and almonds. Chandler is the most commonly grown walnut, because the light color is attractive to consumers. The wood of chandler trees is grafted onto the roots of another type of tree, Heringer explained. In some cases growers who want to replant, but can���t buy trees, will plant the root stock now, and go back in a few years and graft chandler trees on the top, Heringer explained. See WALNUT, page 7A