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MONDAY JULY 12, 2010 Breaking news at: Caring For Aging Skin Vitality www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A RED BLUFF A’s face Angles SPORTS 1B Weather forecast Page 6A Sunny, Hot 99/68 DAILYNEWS TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ T H E V O I C E O F T E H A M A C O U N T Y S I N C E 1 8 8 5 Manton dishes up tradition PBR returning to Red Bluff By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Professional Bull Riders are returning to Red Bluff Aug. 27 with some of the rankest bulls on the west coast bucking their way into the Tehama District Fairground. The event, which begins at 8 p.m. with gates open- ing at 6 p.m., will be the day before the PBR Built Ford Tough series in Ontario, which means many of the top 45 riders will be on the west coast and available to com- pete in Red Bluff. “We are pleased to continue to bring the event to Red Bluff as this year has all the makings of a Built Ford Tough Series Event except that it is in our town,” said Angie Gurrola of Mesa Productions. The event has been held at the same time as the Tehama District Fair for the past two years, but was moved this year because of a scheduling conflict with PBR and a series on the east coast. “To still produce a top quality event we found this Friday night to be the best option as it ties in with the Ontario date,” Gurrola said. “The Red Bluff communi- ty has embraced this event and has come to be very sup- portive with more businesses getting involved as well as the Red Bluff (Tehama County) Chamber of Com- merce. This event has continued to grow and become an event bull riders want to attend.” Daily News photo by Geoff Johnson Part-time Manton residents Joy Kilner and Cathy Root sample some of the salads Saturday at the Manton Grange’s annual picnic while Grange Master Renee Timmons looks on. By GEOFF JOHNSON DN Staff Writer MANTON — The tradition goes back so far no one can remember when it started. Every year, residents of the small community of Manton gather for the Manton Grange’s biggest fundraiser, a combination barbecue, picnic and quilt raffle. This year, more than 50 people gathered at the home of Bob and Cheryl Cords, also known as the Rockin CR Ranch. Beneath oak and pine trees, in the lower temperatures of the mountain air, visitors were greet- ed by barrel-cooked, smoky chicken, barbecued pork, almost 20 different kinds of salads and a cakewalk for desert. The tradition is as ingrained and natural to some residents as the trees rooted in the Cords’ property. Florence Vasquez and Ilene Hall, Manton residents and sis- ters, can trace their family in Manton back to 1868. They esti- mate the picnic likely started in the 1940s, the same time as the Grange, but neither could say for sure. Today, Hall’s granddaughter, Staci McCarley, works at Edward Jones in Redding and heads up the picnic in her spare time. Keeping the picnic going is about more than lunch and leisure, McCarley said. Between herself and volunteers, months of effort were invested into the pic- nic. Volunteers prepared food for 150 visitors, set up games for children, quilted for weeks and booked the Wild Card band, all of which keeps the grange doors open for another year. Activists keep horses from going to slaughter RENO, Nev. (AP) — With the financial backing of a California winery owner, activists on Satur- day purchased almost all 174 horses up for sale at a state-sanctioned auction in Nevada to keep the horses from going to the slaugh- terhouse. Stephanie Hoefener of the Lancaster, Calif.- based Livesavers Wild Horse Rescue group said activists purchased 172 horses for $31,415. The other two horses were acquired by private indi- viduals for their personal use, she said. ‘‘We’re excited so many people came togeth- er to save the horses,’’ Hoefener said. ‘‘This is amazing, and we all feel joyful.’’ The horses were round- ed up by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management last month near the Nevada- Utah line and turned over to the Nevada Department of Agriculture for dispos- al. Agriculture department officials acknowledge the estray horses could have wound up at slaughter- houses because they did not have the federal pro- tections afforded to wild- roaming horses. The horses are believed to be strays or descendants of horses abandoned by private owners over the years in Pilot Valley north of West Wendover. ‘‘For advocacy groups to step up to the plate and make a financial commit- ment like this to save the horses, we think this is a wonderful thing,’’ Nevada Department of Agricul- ture spokesman Ed Foster said. Jill Starr, president of Lifesavers, said the pur- chase of the horses at the Fallon auction was made possible by the financial backing of Ellie Phipps Price, owner of Sand Hill Durell Vineyards in Sono- ma, Calif. Madeleine 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See HORSES, page 3A The hall is key to the commu- nity’s weddings, parties and other special events, McCarley said. Fortunately, McCarley has plenty of incentive to stay and help out. Much of her family lives in Manton and the rest of the community is like family, she said. McCarley is not alone. “I’m related to half of Man- ton,” Sharon Hightower said, bursting into laughter. But if it sounds like a tight- knit community, it has plenty of room for more thread. “If we don’t know you, we’ll be introducing ourselves,” resi- dent Lynn Thompson said. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailynews.co m. Gurrola said she is thankful to Rolling Hills Casino for its commitment to the event. Mesa has teamed up with Rolling Hills to present the sixth annual Professional Bull Riders Touring Pro Series and already has commitments from several top riders. “The event has already received commitments from riders including 2008 world champion Guilherme Marchi, two-time world champion Chris Shivers and recent world traveler and Amazing Race runner up Cord McCoy,” Gurrola said. Red Bluff’s own bullfighting duo, Joe Baumgartner and Eric Layton, will be on hand to protect the riders, and PBR Entertainer Flint Rassmussen will entertain the crowd. Four Star Rodeo Co. will be getting the pen of bulls, which will include Don Kish Bucking Bulls and Julio Moreno Bulls, Gurrola said. The Touring Pro Series offers bull riders the chance to participate in PBR sanctioned events while earning money to qualify for the PBR’s elite Built Ford Tough World Finals in Las Vegas. Something new this year as a result of teaming up with Bud Light is the Good Sport Program. “The program promotes responsible drinking and the importance of a designated driver,” Gurrola said. “The Good Sport ticket will be available when four general admission tickets are sold together, the fifth ticket will be for the designated driver. Essentially ‘Good Sports’ will be on their honor not to abuse the program.” There is no charge for the Good Sport ticket and the See PBR, page 3A Wine straight from the barrel By GEOFF JOHNSON DN Staff Writer MANTON —No one would mistake it for the Napa Valley, but Fred and Donna Boots and a hand- ful of wineries are chang- ing the reputation of this eastern Tehama County town. The mountain commu- nity hosts six wineries, including the Boots’ Indi- an Peak Vineyards. Saturday marked a spe- cial wine-tasting day. Bar- rel Tasting Weekend is when the Boots family opens up its barrels to bottle its bounty and to make room for the next harvest. At least half of Manton wineries offer free tasting. Indian Peak, for one, offers it all year long and all week long, though appointments are required for weekdays. It makes for a cheap date, Fred Boots said. Wine tastes best after it’s aged in the bottle at least six months, he said. But barrel tasting is a long tradition among wineries, and now, after two years, it is a tradition at Indian Peak. In wine terms, the Boots family has not had long to start traditions. Daily News photo by Geoff Johnson Fred Boots, owner of Indian Peak Vineyards, pours a Sauvignon Blanc for a visitor Saturday at the Manton winery. Once active in Cotton- wood, the family moved up to Manton in 1999 in search of a better Caber- net. Their first wine was bottled in 2004, and after about 11 years, the opera- tion is just shy of paying for itself, which is typical for a winery, Boots said. 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