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May 21, 2013

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TUESDAY Drugs for Kids' Fevers MAY 21, 2013 Finals Wrap Up Vitality Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 80/51 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 Relay draws 1,000 Major incidents drive police costs By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff Police Department amassed $21,416 in staff overtime costs investigating the murder of Marysa Nichols in late February and much of March. Another $3,362 in police overtime was amassed following the officer-involved shooting that left a Red Bluff man dead April 11. Police Chief Paul Nanfito is scheduled to ask for a pair of supplemental budget appropriations to cover those costs when the City Council meets at 7 tonight at 555 Washington St. "In these two events overtime was predominantly generated by the need to have additional officers See COSTS, page 7A Corning sets priorities for future projects Daily News photos by Andre Byik Above: Jody Johnson, Peachey Harrop and Joe Harrop walk around the Vista Middle School track Saturday night at Red Bluff's Relay For Life event. Below: Corning Union High School students, from left to right, Jordan Sumpter, Wyatt Haydon, Kyle Hunt and Michael Wold. By ANDRE BYIK DN Sports Editor At Red Bluff's Relay For Life event Saturday and Sunday at Vista Middle School, money flowed with emotions as an estimated 1,000 people walked day and night to support cancer research. The fundraising effort reached the $92,000 mark about 10:30 p.m. Saturday and that total is expected to grow to about $120,000 after post-relay fundraisers are held and counted through August, event chair Twila Cordova said. Cordova, 16-year cancer survivor, has been involved in the relay events that benefit the American Cancer Society since before she was officially diagnosed with the affliction. "The very first time I went to a relay," Cordova said, "I hadn't been diagnosed (with cancer) quite yet. I knew it was coming ... but I went to a Relay For Life and when I first walked through the gates I said, 'Gosh, this is like a big party,'" Cordova said the feeling of attending a relay for the first time is that of not knowing what one is getting into. "You think you're there just to get some exercise because you're walking around a track all day long," Cordova said. "But when Senate OKs regulations for medicinal marijuana SACRAMENTO (AP) — California would take steps to regulate the sale of medical marijuana under a bill approved Monday by the state Senate, restricting cannabis dispensaries that federal prosecutors say have grown out of control. California voters first supported legalizing marijuana to treat illness in 1996, but federal prosecutors recently cracked down. They said the industry has grown enormously profitable and has made marijuana essentially available for recreational use. The Senate sent the bill to the Assembly on a 2212 vote and without any Republican support. The legislation makes it 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 you're talking to people, you meet new people, and you hear why they're here. And everyone has a different story, but it's all the same. It's different but the same. And it just drew me in." Cordova said her children didn't know she had cancer for six years after she was diagnosed. She said she lost both of her in- laws to cancer, so, to her kids, cancer was a "death sentence." But at relay events, she said, "you want people to know, 'Yeah, I had cancer and guess what? I kicked its butt.'" When people leave a relay, Cordova said, people are more comfortable talking about cancer because it's more common than people think. A group of four Corning Union High School students were walking the track about 10 p.m. Saturday after a luminary ceremony and silent lap were held. Their reasons for attending the relay event ranged from having a good time to walking for a family member who had been afflicted with cancer. One of the students, 16year-old Jordan Sumpter, said he attended relay events in Chico and Corning before Red Bluff's relay and was walking "to give people hope," adding, "Everybody deserves compassion." By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Corning City Council discussed and approved its long-range capital improvement project list and Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) at the May 14 meeting. The CEDS list is a five-year economic development strategy plan through which 3Core, a non-profit, helps makes a priority list for projects in the area, should funding become available, City Manager John Brewer said. Projects are listed as A projects being those coming relatively soon, B as those within the next five years and C being longterm projects. The list approved by council in 2012 remained mostly the same while a new list was approved of projects recommended by staff in light of improvements to Marguerite Avenue, north of Blackburn Avenue, since the last list. The major change on the list of staff recommendations, at the request of Mayor Gary Strack, was to move seeking funding for the extension of Fig Lane from Toomes to Houghton avenues, an item on priority C level, up to priority B. "Because of the park, we now have the right of way to put it there and it would be nice to have it," Strack said. Items on the priority A list include extending city water and sewer to the west side of Interstate 5 at South Avenue and interchange improvements at the Solano Street, Highway 99W and Edith Avenue intersection, including the widening of Solano Street to I-5. Road improvements to Highway 99W, north of South Avenue, including turn lanes, curb and gutter and undergrounding utilities as well as completing implementation of the city's brand was included. Increase in needed public facilities such as police and fire departments and related services rounded out the A list. Rodgers Theatre rehabilitation and reopening topped the B list with See CORNING, page 7A Students get lesson on DUI By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer clear that dispensaries cannot operate at a profit, but that the owners can receive reasonable compensation and reimbursement for expenses. ''This bill is not about the legalization of marijuana,'' said Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento. ''It does seek to assure that patients who need medical cannabis have access to it. It is intended to assure that drug cartels and other criminals do not benefit from the lack of regulation.'' He said his SB439, along with pending legislation by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco, is ''intended to come to some sort of an understanding with the federal government.'' The bill's language is still being negotiated with Red Bluff Police officers gave a presentation Monday at Red Bluff Union High School on the dangers of driving under the influence. Following a video and talk, several students and staff were able to try driving golf carts through a course of cones — first without and then wearing goggles simulating the vision of a person driving while impaired. Junior Dylan Dorman, who does not have his license yet and has little behind-the-wheel experience, said the course was very difficult for him with the glasses on. "It's definitely not easy," Dorman said. "It's good that they bring this to our school and bring awareness to our students because it's a big deal." Others were asked to walk nine steps heel-totoe wearing the goggles, See SENATE, page 7A See DUI, page 7A Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb A Red Bluff Union High School student rides over a cone in a course of cones Monday with Red Bluff Police School Resources Officer Aaron Murray while wearing goggles simulating driving under the influence.

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