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WEEKEND MAY, 18-19 2013 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com Central Coast Tour — Farm 4A DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 83/57 Weather forecast 8A 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 Lucero expands to Oregon Red Bluff man hurt following crash An 18-year-old Red Bluff man received major injuries in a crash at 2:30 p.m. Thursday on Highway 36W, west of Chloe Lane. Mitchell Zubiri was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding after being stabilized at St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, California Highway Patrol Officer Phillip Mackintosh said. Zubiri was driving east on 36W at about 55 mph when for unknown reasons he allowed his 1990 Toyota 4Runner to drift onto the right shoulder where it hit a metal paddle marker before hitting an asphalt curb. The 4Runner went over curb and up a dirt embankment where it overturned and Zubiri, who did not appear to be wearing a seat belt, was ejected onto south shoulder, Mackintosh said. The vehicle, which had major damage, continued overturning across both traffic lanes, coming to rest on north shoulder. — Julie Zeeb Corning changes wastewater operator By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Courtesy photo (Above)Dewey Lucero cuts the ribbon at the new Lucero Olive Oil tasting room in Tigard, Ore. (Below) Lucero celebrates one of the numerous awards his olive oil has received. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Corning's Lucero Olive Oil in March officially launched a tasting room near Portland, Ore. "We've been working hard to grow Lucero, to include opening the Tasting Room in Portland," owner Dewey Lucero said. "It's a great test store for us and it's doing very well so far." The new store is at Bridgeport Village, an outdoor mall in Tigard, Ore. The site was chosen because one of Lucero's employees, who manages the new location, was from there, he said. "The store is a pilot tasting room for us and it's leading the way for future Lucero tasting rooms and driving our sales online," Lucero said. "It also brings an awareness to our brand and drives more people to our flagship tasting room in Corning because the customer can receive the ultimate experience there and take a tour of our facility and see the mill producing oil during our milling season." The tours are available during the production season, which runs September to December. For more infor- CORNING — The City Council approved Tuesday switching from SouthWest Water Company to Severn Trent Services for management of its wastewater treatment plant. "SouthWest wants to get out of operations and maintenance and would like to sell the contract to Severn Trent," City Manager John Brewer said. "The current contracts, which Severn would assume, run through July of 2022." The change will go into effect on June 1, he said. According to a letter from Keith Fischer, managing director for SouthWest Water Company, Severn Trent, a Texasbased company, has successfully taken over dozens of its clients with minimal disruption to them. Some concern was raised over whether current employees would be retained, which Richard Clayton of Severn Trent addressed at the meeting. The company is "more than willing" to retain See CHANGES, page 7A Analyst pegs revenue $3.2B higher than Gov. Brown mation call 824-2190. On May 11, the company held its annual Spring Bloom event to allow more of the public a chance to see the operation. The next opportunity will be the first of the second Saturday at the Mill summer events. The first event is set for 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, June 8. "We are becoming the whole package," Lucero said. "We have people all over the world watching us and we are the leader in Califor- nia now for branding. Nobody else is doing it the way we are doing it with marketing and getting our brand out there." The company, which has won more awards than anyone else in the industry and is in the process of becoming a world leader in the industry, is also in the process of expanding its employees with nine new employees hired in the next three to four months, Lucero said. See OIL, page 7A SACRAMENTO (AP) — The state's independent budget analyst said Friday that California will take in $3.2 billion more in tax revenue than Gov. Jerry Brown estimated, providing Democratic lawmakers an argument to funnel more money into state programs and setting up a spending showdown with the administration. The Legislative Analyst's Office released its assessment of Brown's revenue and spending plan just days after the governor's budget update for the fiscal year starting July 1. It said the administration's figures do not reflect the improving economy, including higher capital gains from stock sales. ''We do not agree with the administration's view that there has been a significant dimming of the state's near-term economic prospects,'' the analyst wrote. Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, said the new revenue number should not be interpreted ''as an autoSee PEGS, page 7A Hicks honored at France's Normandy museum Special to the DN On April 20, 2013, Floyd A. Hicks of Red Bluff was presented a medal at the Normandy DDay museum near Bayeux, France by the museum director. He was accompanied on the trip to France by his nephew Dennis French, also of Red Bluff. Hicks, who served as city manager of Red Bluff about 25 years ago, was in France and England to take part in the 70th anniversary kick off of Exercise Tiger in Slapton Sands, England, French said. Exercise Tiger was a rehearsal for the D-Day landing at Utah Beach conducted near Slapton Sands and was conducted by troops who would land on Utah Beach less than 10 weeks later. Hicks was 19years-old at the time of the Utah Beach, landing, French said. German E-boats, the equivalent of American torpedo boats, infiltrated the convoy sinking 3 LSTs and damaging one other. Over 900 American sailors and soldiers died in the incident. This incident was kept secret because the allies did not want the Germans to know that the invasion of France was imminent and it was felt that news of this tragic incident would be demoralizing to the public at home, French said. Hicks was on board LST 515 who's captain disobeyed orders to return to port and stayed to rescue survivors of which HIcks had a prominent role. Nearly 150 soldiers and sailors were pulled from the frigid English Channel and whose lives were saved that terrible morning. Courtesy photo Floyd Hicks of Red Bluff, right, receives a medal on April 20 from the museum director of the Normandy D-Day Museum near Bayeux, France.