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WEEKEND APRIL 20-21 2013 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com Round-Up Donates to RBPD — Page 5A DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 81/52 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 Round-Up on Report: Area residents can breathe easier By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The California Air Pollution Control Officers Association released a report Wednesday trumpeting their success reducing unhealthy fine particulate pollution despite increases to the population and number of miles driven in the state. The annual report said smog-forming pollutants were cut by 55 percent from 1980 to 2010. During that time the state's population increased 65 percent and See REPORT, page 9A Lassen to open highway to Devastated Area Daily News photo by Chip Thompson The 92 Annual Red Bluff Round-Up Rodeo kicked off Friday evening at the Frank Moore Arena in the Tehama District Fairground. Performances are scheduled for 2:30 p.m. today and 1:30 p.m. Sunday. For tickets call 527-1000 or visit www.redbluffroundup.com.Today's events begin with the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast 7-10 a.m. at the Elks Lodge, 355 Gilmore Road, with tickets for $5 available at the door. The Red Bluff Round-Up Parade gets under way at 10 a.m. on Walnut and Main streets in downtown Red Bluff. Sunday's events begin with Cowboy Church at the fairgrounds starting at 10 a.m. For rodeo results, visit redbluffdailynews.com. Lassen Volcanic National Park highway snow plowing work continues and the park has now opened the road to the Devastated Area. There will also be access by vehicle to the Sulphur Works area with limited parking on the south side of the park during week- ends beginning Saturday. "Warmer temperatures and a lack of heavy snow this past winter have expedited road clearing operations," Superintendent Darlene Koontz said. "We are looking forward to a possible early openSee LASSEN, page 9A Economic forecast Fairground arena named for Moore event Tuesday By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The sixth annual Seeds of Opportunity Economic Forecast event is scheduled to take place Tuesday, April 23, and will feature an update on the Tehama Country Branding Project, as well as presentations by Dr. Robert Eyler of Sonoma State and Futurist Garry Golden from New York. Golden, who speaks to audiences around the world, will coach attendees on how to tap their inner futurist and learn to better anticipate and lead change in our local communities. Join Golden in a conversation on ways to better approach emerging trends and issues likely to shape life across Tehama County and beyond. He will teach the audience how to think and plan for resilience in a world shaped by constant change and uncertainty. The presentation will focus on empowering civic, business and government leaders to make the right strategic investments to thrive in the 21st century. Eyler has presented at this event in past. He is a Professor of Economics and the Director of the Executive MBA Program at Sonoma State. He will focus on global and national economic issues and trends; connecting Tehama County to the North Valley and California overall; the local labor and housing market issues; and four opportunities for Tehama County through 2020. Kathy Sarmiento, CEO of the Job Training Center and a member of the Tehama Country Brand Leadership Team, will give a branding project update. The project is now in Phase II: Product Development. Presentations will also be made on Manton's recovery from the fires; Corning's new park; Los Molinos infrastructure improvements and the new Tehama Country Visitors Center slated to open May 24 in Red Bluff. Sees of Opportunity will take place at Carlino's Event Center at Rolling Hills Casino in Corning. Registration begins at 7:30 a.m. and the program at 8 a.m. Cost is $25 per person and includes a full breakfast. Those interested can buy tickets online at www.jobtrainingcenter.org or by calling 529-7000. The event is being sponsored by the Job Training Center, Tehama EDC, Rolling Hills Casino, the Daily News, Cornerstone Community Bank, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Tehama Country Visitors Center and the Corning, Los Molinos and Red BluffTehama County chambers of commerce. On Friday as Red Bluff Round-Up spectators watched the official beginning of the three-day rodeo they may have noticed a new sign with a new official name, Frank Moore Arena. The Tehama District Fairboard approved the rename at the Round-Up's request at its March meeting. "His hand is all over the arena," Fair CEO Mark Eidman said. "He's rebuilt two slider gates and been all over. There's lots of areas on the fairgrounds he's touched." The sign is underneath the predominantly displayed Red Bluff RoundUp sign on the sky box seats. Frank Moore, a Round-Up director for the past 40 years, has been around for the event far longer than that, he said. "I've been around it since I was 12 years old," Moore said. "I skipped two years while I was serving in the Army, but I was born and raised in Red Bluff." Several family members have served as directors for the association, from his uncle Joe Nunes and Nunes' brother Manuel who died while working the roping box at the 1952 Red Bluff RoundUp to his nephew Rod Moore, who is a director. Even Moore's 13-yearold grandson, Parker, assists at the event. With Ralph Hobbs, Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Frank Moore stands below the sign at the Tehama District Fairground proclaiming the arena the Frank Moore Arena. John Read, Ruben Perez and Don Krois, Moore has worked in many different areas of the event. "Everything you see in this arena, we've moved," Moore said. "We took the bleachers on the west side and moved them to north and south, put in the VIP bleachers, redone the chutes, put a cement platform behind and built the skybox." Moore worked with Perez, a welder, to design and build the skybox, he said. "I've done a lot of fences and corrals, dug a lot of post holes, poured a lot of concrete and done a lot of welding, but I had a lot of help," Moore said. "It's almost a family. If you weren't a part of it, you became one." Through the years, Moore has seen a lot of changes, from the amount of time it takes to put on the event to the level of cowboys, who are much more professional and educated than they were when he first started, he said. "Come this weekend people will see the top 20 in every event," Moore said. What used to be a twoor three-month job has become year-round and there's the ability at the Round-Up, through television screens, to see an instant replay of action in the arena. On hearing the arena was to be named after him, Moore joked that the Round-Up directors must be getting a different report from his doctor than he was. "Usually something's renamed, it's past tense," Moore said. "I appreciate it and the fairboard." Director Don Krois had high praise for Moore, reminiscing how it was through Moore, who worked a glove route See MOORE, page 9A GROWNEY MOTORS We Buy Used Cars paid for or not 1160 Main St. 527-1034