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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 ��� Daily News FIRE Continued from page 1A their number one priority,��� Shobash said. ���This is an arduous task considering our one department runs more than 3,500 emergency calls a year; more than any one Redding station. To do this effectively we heavily rely on our extremely well trained and qualified reserve base to support our full-time personnel.��� As the city grows, so do the number of calls and without the reserves stepping up, the department would not be able to handle responding to multiple calls in a timely manner, he said. ���We are thankful for their service to both our department an to this community,��� Shobash said. ���It was during this academy that I had the privilege to work with four of our most experienced firefighters in developing their skills and knowledge to be our finest engineers.��� Stepping up to engineer is a complex responsibility that places the lives of the firefighters directly into the hands of the engi- PONZI Continued from page 1A in January and has pleaded not guilty. Guidi has also pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Prosecutors said the three men sold real estate investments, promising low-risk returns. But many of the projects faltered or were never finished. Still, the men continued to raise neers, he said. ���It is with confidence in their newly mastered skills that I proudly introduce to you the newest members of the Red Bluff Fire Department���s rank of Engineer,��� Shobash said. In order to achieve the rank, firefighters had to undertake the 20 week firefighter one academy, which included 428 hours of training and instruction along with 240 hours of ride along time. From there, the candidates underwent Firefighter 2, a four-month inhouse training process, getting their EMT-1 certification and the Engineer Academy, all of which was on unpaid time, Bennett said. Martin and Hickok are graduates of Red Bluff Fire���s 2007 academy and McLeod was a graduate of a 2009 academy. Sanchez came to the department following completion of the Shasta College Fire Academy in 2008. ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. money from investors, using it to pay off earlier investors, according to prosecutors. The more recent investors were allegedly not told of problems arising in the team's investment portfolio, nor of Koenig's 1986 federal fraud conviction and subsequent probation violations. The men were arrested after a 17-month investigation. PLEA Continued from page 1A working real hard to sift through the evidence. With the amount of materials to sift through I asked for it to be set out for two months to allow the defense for Bealer to have adequate time to be prepared. I got some of the discovery, but not everything yet.��� Having worked with murder cases before, Northam knows that materials could still be coming in throughout the case and even up to the trial, he said. While Northam has received the police reports, he has yet to get the surveillance video in which Bealer appeared at Red Bluff High School along with those of court appearances prior to Northam taking the case and of Bealer being interviewed, he said. Northam previously worked as a Deputy District Attorney for Tehama County District Attorney Gregg Cohen in 2000. Bealer has expressed to him that he is comfortable with and wants Northam to represent him, Northam said. Northam will be taking on all other cases pending at the Tehama County Superior Court, totaling eight cases, with charges including possession of a methamphetamine smoking device, second degree burglary, receiving stolen property and possession of a controlled substance. Bealer was arrested March 2 in connection with the death of Nichols, who had gone missing Feb. 26. Nichols��� body was found Thursday, Feb. 28, about a half-mile from the campus. Bealer was arraigned on the charge of one count of open murder, which means the county can proceed on several different theories, and that is the direction District Attorney Gregg Cohen���s office is still taking with the case. An open count of murder can be charged as felony murder, which carries a sentence of 25 years to life with the option of a special circumstance request for death penalty, Cohen said. Other options are first degree murder, which carries a sentence of 25 to life, and second degree murder, which carries a sentence of 15 years to life, he said. Northam said his client is frustrated and does not understand why he is being prosecuted. Marysa���s aunt, Mar- DEAL Continued from page 1A to Lion II Custom Investments, LLC, the holder of a deed of trust encumbering the project site, about nine miles north of Red Bluff on Insterstate 5. The estoppel certifies the agreement is in full force and effect and a garet Crone, who has attended several court appearances with Marysa���s father Ricky Nichols, was present Tuesday to represent the family. Nichols died of asphyxiation from having something wrapped multiple times around her neck and she died within minutes. Wearing a T-shirt that read ���In Loving Memory of Marysa Marie Nichols,��� Crone asked that the community remember Bealer���s family in prayer. ���We need to pray for his family too,��� Crone said. ���Pray for all of us. Pray for the truth. We want the right justice.��� Bealer���s parents, Edward and Debbie Bealer, were in attendance Tuesday. ���We���re a retired military family and he was an Army brat, a three sport athlete,��� Edward Bealer said. ���He graduate from Red Bluff High School. He was a normal kid with problems like everyone else. The Bealer family does support our son. We are 100 percent behind him. Being a petty criminal does not make him a murderer, but the people of this county have him already convicted and on death row. I believe to get a fair trial it needs to be binding obligation of the parties, that it has not been amended and neither party has been found in default under the agreement. Chief Administrator Bill Goodwin said he viewed the request for the certificate as a ���check-in��� from the investor and did not read into it any more than that. The Board of Supervisors originally approved the Sun City devel- 7A moved.��� Their family has received several death threats and has taken precautions against them, he said. Debbie Bealer said her son, who was a Iron Worker���s Apprentice, did not have a drug problem until about a year and a half ago. ���When he became a journeyman the work escalated and there were not enough people on the job sites,��� Debbie Bealer said. Going from one job site to another took its toll and it was a co-worker who got him to first take methamphetamine, she said. The Monday before Marysa���s disappearance, Bealer���s father had dropped him off in town so that he could be there for a court appearance and he stayed with Eddie Ouellette and Mike Hencey, she said. ���He had been clean (from drugs) for 45 days before that,��� Debbie Bealer said. ��������� Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. opment agreement in 2006. Following litigation it was re-approved in 2010. Further litigation over the project was concluded in August 2012. The project would build a 3,730home active senior community in northern Tehama County. The project was delayed years ago following litigation issues and the slumping housing market. Man stabbed in buttocks after wedding NEW A 21-year-old Corning man was reportedly stabbed twice in the buttocks following a large wedding reception Friday evening in Gerber. The victim said he did not feel himself get stabbed nor had any idea who stabbed him as he was in a large crowd of people when it happened, according to a Tehama County Sheriff���s Department press release. The victim was interviewed at St. Elizabeth���s Community Hospital. His injuries were not life threatening. Witnesses at the scene of the incident on Highway 99W said there was a physical altercation, however no one saw a knife or how the victim was stabbed. Logs show it was reported another person was battered in a bathroom. ��� Rich Greene Panel OKs ecosystem plan for West Coast fisheries GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) ��� After three years of consideration, West Coast federal fisheries managers on Tuesday unanimously adopted their first ecosystem approach to decisions on fishing seasons and catch quotas. Meeting in Portland, the Pacific Fishery Management Council adopted the Fishery Ecosystem Plan, whose first initiative will be to consider how to make sure enough little forage fish remain in the ocean for bigger fish to eat. ������Clearly, federal managers have gotten the message that the days of crisisbased management, managing for a single species, and how to maximize catches are over,������ said Ben Enticknapp of the conservation group Oceana. The Pacific council followed the lead of other councils, which have established ecosystem plans for federal waters off the southern Atlantic Seaboard, the Aleutian Islands of Alaska and the Hawaiian and Marianas islands, said Yvonne deReynier, who overseas development of ecosystem plans for NOAA Fisheries Service in Seattle. Each council is taking its own approach to the issue, because there is no legal mandate, she added. As recently as 2002, the West Coast groundfish fishery, which includes popular species like lingcod and rockfish, was in trouble. A fisheries disaster was declared after a decade of declining catches. Since then, managers have gone beyond just cutting back catch quotas to buying out half the groundfish fleet, protecting marine habitats and taking steps to minimize the numbers of unwanted fish that get dumped overboard dead, known as bycatch. Fisheries have been rebounding. Under the ecosystem management program, the council will get regular scientific reports on the health of the ocean that will figure in decisions on setting fishing seasons, catch quotas and other issues. Conservation groups were disappointed the program was non-binding, but felt the scientific reports will go a long way toward informing good council decisions, said Enticknapp. Scott McMullen, a retired fisherman who serves on Oregon���s Ocean Policy Advisory Council and helped write the program, called it a milestone, but added it faces challenges due to the difficulty of measuring things like forage fish numbers. ������In the forest, you can go out and count the trees,������ he said. ������You can���t do that in the ocean.������ Brad Pettinger, director of the Oregon Trawl Commission, a fishing industry group, said West Coast fisheries have rebounded since the 2002 groundfish collapse, with strong catches of shrimp and whiting, the fish that is processed into artificial crab, and bycatch below 5 percent. ������Obviously, you want to be careful on forage fish, because it���s part of the food chain,������ he said. ������But I don���t think we are anywhere close to (overfishing those species). The Wild West is gone.������ Two major forage fish species, sardines and anchovies, are fished for bait and food. But lesserknown species, such as sand lance and some smelt are not. Conservation groups worry that as demand for fish protein increases, they will be overfished. The fish go through a boom-and-bust cycle of about 50 years, whether they are managed or not, Pettinger said. Calif. tax bill seeks to punish Scouts for gay ban SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ��� California lawmakers are considering taking some tax exemptions away from youth groups that do not accept gay, transgender or atheist members ��� a move intended to pressure the Boy Scouts of America to lift its ban on gay Scouts and troop leaders. Some cities have withdrawn free rent and other subsidies from the Boy Scouts over the years, but legislation introduced by state Sen. Ricardo Lara would make California the first state to target the Scouts for its anti-gay policy. The Long Beach Democrat���s bill, SB 323, is scheduled for its first committee hearing on Wednesday. ������Our state values the important role that youth groups play in the empowerment of our next generation; this is demonstrated by rewarding organizations with tax exemptions supported financially by all Californians,������ Lara said. ������SB 323 seeks to end the unfortunate discriminatory and outdated practices by certain youth groups.������ The Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed the Texas-based organization���s ban on openly gay members last summer then announced in January that it was revisiting the decision. In February, the group said it would submit a resolution on rescinding the policy to the 1,400 members of Scouting���s National Council in May. Deron Smith, a spokesman for the Boy Scouts of Amer- ica, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the organization was aware of Lara���s bill and would provide feedback on it to the Senate Governance and Finance Committee before Wednesday���s hearing. ������Beyond that, and our previous statements on membership standards, we don���t have anything to add at this time,������ Smith said. The legislation, also known as the Youth Equality Act, would deny tax-exempt status to nonprofit youth groups that discriminate on the basis of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, nationality, religion or religious affiliation. District 2 covers west and just south of Red Bluff, Ridgeway Park, the first part Continued from page 1A of Highway 99W and the then cycle back into its usual Reeds Creek and Red Bank 4-year rotation in 2016. areas. HASH Continued from page 1A packed into a pipe and butane is poured through it. Heat is used to separate the butane, and what���s left is the oil. But without good ventilation, the vapors can build up and pose an unseen and dangerous threat because they don���t dissipate quickly. An open flame, static electricity or anything that can spark the gas could lead to an explosion. The U.S. Fire Administration ��� a division of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ��� noted in a February bulletin that the number of hash oil explosions is increasing. THE PASSING PARADE (From Dave Minch���s I Say column of January 1942) This is the start of another series of my articles which will appear every day except Saturday in the space next to the Daily Livestock Report. I will use the space as an advertising medium to acquaint you with the workings and needs of our various diversified businesses. The advertising will be interspersed with my comments on the happenings of the day and articles on our recent trip to Mexico. Whenever my comments do not agree with history or your established ideas you will be at liberty to believe whichever you wish. I don���t care whether you agree with me or not, but I do hope you will read the articles and be entertained by some of them *** The following letter just received is, I believe, typical of the average American boy. I am very proud of my brother Everett (���Rip���) who wrote it. When he was drafted, he gave up a job paying him 10 times what the army pays him. He had just bought a new car and started to buy a house. He had every wish to continue staying in Red Bluff. He is over 28 years old and had expected he would soon be released. He knows now he will not be. In spite of the above he has never, by word or letter, taken an attitude except to say that he owed it to his country to do as they wished in this emergency, and do it willingly. ���Dear Dave, Call or text 530-526-1992 We have been traveling so long we had an argument today as to whether it was Friday or Monday. We are guarding property and were given a radio today by the property owners, the first news we have heard for 15 days. Our training has apparently done me some good. For the last 3 weeks I have slept on tops of garbage cans, milk cans, in train aisles, in mangers and in seats on weapons carriers, in trucks, a single board 1��� wife and 4 ��� long, and occasionally no sleep at all. Last night it rained on us and soaked us good. In spite of all this, I am in good health and feel the best I have in years���even gained a few pounds. I only have to work six to eight hours a day. After that we are on guard duty two hours on and four hours off. First time I���ve had to do my laundry in 16 days. The women near here have given us a 30 pound box of candy, many flowers, mince pies and about a bushel of cookies. Most of the fellows are disappointed that we have not gotten the war over with by now. They think it will be over sooner than later and we can go back home *. Your brother, Rip.��� Lincoln Heritage Funeral Advantage *It was over for Rip some time later in the Battle of The Bulge. Are you on a fixed income? Need to plan your funeal? I can help. Final expense plans, for as little as $15.00 a month. by Lincoln Heritage Life Insurance Company Hugh McNeela, Agent CA License #0E13543 Red Bluff CA hughmcneela@att.net Dave Minch 1900-1964 The Passing Parade is brought to you by by Minch Property Management, 760 Main Street specializing in commercial leasing and sales. 530 527 5514