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WEDNESDAY Pasta With Athletes of the Week Leeks for Kids MAY 22, 2013 County Fare Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 71/52 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 Fairboard votes for JPA Cops search for kidnap suspects By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Tehama County Sheriff's Department is looking for two men believed to be connected to three suspicious circumstance reports Sunday and Monday, including an attempted kidnapping. A call was first received at 4:25 p.m. Sunday in the area of Rawson Road near Cody Drive involving a screaming woman who appeared to be trying to get out of a pickup, the release said. The reporting party said there were two white men parked on the edge of Rawson Road in a white pickup, possibly a Chevrolet between 1997-2003. See COPS, page 7A County lays out priority projects By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Tehama District Fairboard Directors attend their final meeting Tuesday as a board. The group was replaced by new appointees of Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer On Tuesday, following approval by the Tehama County Board of Supervisors and despite requests to wait, the Tehama District Fairboard approved the final Joint Powers Authority draft. "We aren't going to see a huge difference, I hope," Fair CEO Mark Eidman said. "Whether we're Tehama District Fair, Tehama Community Alliance or the JPA, whatever we are, we are still pushing full speed ahead to get it done and keep the gates open." At an earlier meeting Tuesday, the supervisors approved Chairman Dennis Garton signing the JPA between the county and the 30th District Agricultural Association for the formation of the Tehama Fair and Fairgrounds Authority. At that time, Garton said the JPA would get a $200,000 loan to help the Newly appointed DN Staff Report With several current directors having terms expired, Gov. Jerry Brown appointed five members to the 30th District Agricultural Association, Tehama District Fair Board, on Tuesday. All five appointments are Democrats. The appointments do not require senate confirmation. Appointees Jorge "George" Lomeli and Linda Durrer were in attendance at Tuesday's Tehama District Fairboard meeting. The appointments are: Andrew Alejandre, 25, of Corning Alejandre has been the creative director for Cave Clothing Brand since 2010. He was a graphic designer at Native Threads from 2012 to 2013. Alejandre was a graphics design intern at Tepa LLC in 2008. Joan Kaiser Bell, 83, of Red Bluff Bell served as an outpatient clinic clerk at the California Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital, Long Beach from 1989 to 1995. She is a member of the California Democratic Party, the Tehama County Democratic Central Committee and the See NEWLY, page 7A fairgrounds with its solar facility settlement to help the JPA avoid from starting out with a debt. State to post raw campaign filings online daily SACRAMENTO (AP) — California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has agreed to expand the way her office presents campaign finance data online after initially rejecting the request from a coalition of good-government groups, research organizations and newspapers, her spokeswoman said Tuesday. The Secretary of State's Office will make California's entire campaign finance and lobbying database, known as Cal-Access, available for download on one spreadsheet daily by Labor Day. Currently, the secretary of state's office creates CD-ROMs upon request and sends them by mail for $5, or the public has to search online by each candidate, group or committee. The groups that asked for the change to the state's website applauded Bowen's decision and say it will help 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 The loan will be for a 10-year period with 2 percent interest, Tehama County Chief Administra- tor Bill Goodwin said. Following that meeting, Goodwin gave a brief presentation at the fairboard meeting on how the JPA came about. It was the most logical way to ensure the fairgrounds, a huge value to the community both economically and culturally, would still be around, Goodwin said. One of the reasons behind it being a return to more local control. At the same time that Goodwin told the Fairboard that time was of the essence in the JPA and not to wait until the next meeting, scheduled for June 18. He cautioned against the current board voting it into place. Goodwin said he thought it would strengthen the JPA's chances to have the new board's approval and that Michele Dias, general counsel for the California Department of Food and Ag, had An Adventure Center, a road connection between the Bend area and Highway 36E, public plazas, a railroad crossing near the Shasta College Tehama Campus — to some these are dreams, but to the county they are priority projects. The Tehama County Board of Supervisors updated its Priority Projects List Tuesday, a collection of near- and longterm projects the county hopes to one day complete. The list will be included with other local municipalities and counties as part of a regional economic development strategy being put together by 3CORE. The private, non-profit cooperation develops economic planning and consults agencies for Butte, Glenn and Tehama counties. Branding opportunities still top the Tehama County priority list. Although the updated list includes developing a county way-finding system through signage and informational kiosks. Chief Administrator Bill Goodwin said that would include working with Caltrans to develop signage now allowed in the Manton winery region. Another project to improve infrastructure and transportation access to Diamond Avenue property now specifically includes developing a railroad crossing in the vicinity of the Shasta College Tehama Campus. The document calls for the county to work with the city of Red Bluff and Union Pacific Railroad to decommission the Crittenden Street railroad crossing in favor of one south of the I-5 half interchange near the campus. Other near-term projects include continued support of expanding broadband access across the city, enhancing Shasta College curriculum and supporting the Humboldt to Tehama County railway connection project. The latter was just added to the list. Projects with a priority range of around 5 years include furthering the transportation infrastructure of Diamond Avenue to help develop Sacramento River frontage and improvement the Highway 99W corridor See COUNTY, page 7A See JPA, page 7A First fest gets taste of success Special to the DN the public keep track of who is funding the campaigns of elected officials. ''It's a tremendous victory for transparency for Californians,'' said Dan Newman, president of MapLight, a Berkeley-based organization that examines the influence of money in politics. ''It's going to make it radically easier for Californians to keep track of who is funding their elected officials and hold them accountable.'' Newman said the change brings California more in line with the Federal Election Commission, which already makes raw data available for download online. The change will enable groups to build off the data for functions they need, he said. Last month, Bowen sent a letter denying a request from MapLight, California Common Cause and newspapers that included the Los Angeles Times and The Sacramento Bee to make raw campaign finance and lobbying data available on The first Keg, Cork & Fork Fest, held at the Red Bluff Elks Lodge Saturday, drew visitors not just from Tehama County, but from Butte and Shasta counties, and turned into an extended rollicking afternoon of fun and fine libations for all. Visitors began to arrive at the Gilmore Road lodge around 4 p.m. and were greeted at the entrance by the inviting smells of smoking ribs by Lassen Steakhouse and brick oven baked pizza from Cynder's WoodFired Pizza, which were being cooked in elaborate contraptions along the walkway leading to the event. To one side, classical guitarist Nathan Huisen of Redding strummed complex and inviting tunes; and on the other, Sarah Todd, a veil and fire dancer, also of Redding, dervishly whirled and pirouetted to the music with spinning silk scarves. Once inside, patrons found a carnival-like bacchanalian feast of sights, sounds, smells and tastes. Dutchman and the Bandits See STATE, page 7A See FEST, page 7A Courtesy photo Visitors enjoyed fine food and drinks and danced in the aisles to the tunes of Dutchman and the Bandits at the first Keg, Cork & Fork Fest, held at the Red Bluff Elks Lodge, Saturday. Smog Inspection $ 2595 +$825 certificate (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) • Member Discount 530 527-9841 195 S. Main St., Red Bluff GROWNEY MOTORS We Buy Used Cars paid for or not 1160 Main St. 527-1034