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THURSDAY Sharks Bitten MAY 30, 2013 Breaking news at: Inside Today SPORTS 1B www.redbluffdailynews.com DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 86/60 Weather forecast 8A 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 Los Molinos house shot up early Wednesday Bullets pierced a Los Molinos home early Wednesday, including one that struck the Rue Jenny Lane residence just five feet from a sleeping juvenile. Tehama County Sheriff's deputies responded to a report of shots fired about 12:43 a.m. in the area of Rue Jenny Lane and Ward Avenue in Los Molinos, according to a department press release. Deputies arrived and found a Ford F-150 pickup truck in the driveway area of 8605 Rue Jenny Lane with multiple bullet holes in it. Bullets struck two tires, a rear window and the rear license plate. Three bullet holes were found in the residence on the property, including one measured to be five feet from where a juvenile had been sleeping. Neighbors reported hear- ing a car with a modified exhaust system pull into the cul-de-sac right before the shots were fired. The car reportedly pulled away and drove north on Shasta Boulevard. Church seeks place in history County board approves small raises for cops By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Courtesy photo Members of the Tehama Assembly of God Church, 295 D St. in Tehama, pictured here, are seeking information to help place it on the National Register of Historic Places. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A Tehama County church is looking for help from the community in placing its 135 year old building on the National Register of Historical Places. Since January, a group of the small congregation at Tehama Assembly of God Church, 295 D St. in Tehama, has been working to gather information, board member Lucy Farre said. The group contacted the California State Preservation Office to find out what it needs and has started filling out the 12-page application, but has exhausted its resources in finding information, she said. "We need to have an architect look at the building and tell us what architectural style it is," Farre said. "We've been trying to get a history student at Chico Sate to help us, but that requires a per diem cost for travel and our small, 27-member congregation can't afford to do that." The church's district office has an architect who can look at the building, but he is on a project elsewhere and the group was hoping to get started as soon as possible, she said. "We have a proposal we're submitting with Bidwell Memorial Presbyterian to fund an intern," Farre said. "We've done some research ourselves, but we've exhausted what we have at the library." The group has been collecting general information as it comes across it and had a lead from the Tehama County Genealogical and Historical Society on someone who had a grandfather or great-grandfather involved in the group starting the original church, but has not been able to make contact with them yet, she said. "We don't know who built it and haven't been able to find it," Farre said. "We believe it was the first church in the city of Tehama. According to all the books we've read, it actually started out as Presbyterian church." The biggest part of the form requires a description of the building such as an architect would give and the group doesn't know whether the history it has is enough to get the church registered, she said. Anyone wishing to help with information on the church is welcome to call Farre at 385-1747. "It's just an arduous project trying to get all the background," Farre said. One of the many changes to the church is that the steeple, which was apparently removed because it was going bad, is missing, she said. "Our thought was maybe if we get it on the national register, we can get grants to restore it to the original," Farre said. "We're not a very big church and we don't have the finances to do what needs to be done to keep it up. It's beautiful inside, but even the inside is starting to look a little bit rough. It needs to have some work done and our goal to maintain it." Donations to help with funding a Chico State intern are also welcome or any professional with architec- tural skills wishing to volunteer to help assist in answering the technical questions on the required application. Interested parties can contact Farre. This would involve providing written architectural style and classification information on the church building to the California State Historical Preservation Office. In addition to architectural styles, the church is also in need of social history, which is where help from the public is needed. Particularly someone who can provide or knows anyone who might have access to confirming or contradicting information on the history of the church building. What the church has learned according to "Tehama Little City of the Big Trees" by Clara Hough Hisken, published in 1948 is that the first entry to appear in the old church records is on Nov. 9, 1876. The entry reads "We, who are putting our names to this paper, being members of the Presbyterian church, do hereby request that Rev. Thomes Frazer, missionary agent of the Synod of the Pacific and Rev. A. H Mayhew, appointed by the Presbytery of Sacramento to visit Tehama, organize us into a church to be known as "The First Presbytery of Sacramento and the Synod of the Pacific." It is signed by M. Emily Tarter, Annie Williams, William Rogers, Jane Thomes and M.E. Thomes. Records the church has found have been jumbled and so the best guess is that the church, which was dedicated in March 1878, was built See CHURCH, page 7A The Tehama County Board of Supervisors approved a 3-year contract May 21 with the Peace Officers' Bargaining Unit. Employees will receive a 2 percent increase effective July 1 and a 1 percent increase the following year. However the county is estimating it will save in excess of $300,000 over the span of the Memorandum of Understanding. That savings comes as a result of employees beginning to pay the employee portion of their CalPERS benefit contribution. Effective June 1 employees will pay 3 percent of their salary on a pre-tax basis, that raises to 6 percent and 9 percent in the following years. The county's contract with the bargaining unit expired Dec. 31, 2012. The new agreement runs through the end of 2015. Other changes in the contract include an increase in life insurance benefit from $20,000 to $30,000. The maximum number of furlough days that can be taken is reduced from 12 to 10 per fiscal year. State announces $520M for school projects The State Allocation Board (SAB) has announced that it has awarded some $520 million for shovel-ready school construction projects across the state in a list that includes Tehama County. Plum Valley Elementary School is receiving about $2,500 in Prop. 47 money for new construction while the Tehama County Office of Education is receiving about $3.25 million for new construction, according to a release from the State Allocations Board. The state matching funds will help finance 230 school construction projects within 92 school districts. Funds for these projects are provided by bonds authorized under Propositions 1A, 1D, 47 and 55. "The State Allocation Board's action today provides cash apportionments for 230 school facility projects throughout the state," said Board Chair Tom Dyer. "These state bond funds will be distributed to school districts within 90 days to move local school construction projects forward as quickly as possible." The State Allocation Board's accelerated funding rules allow participating school districts with approved projects to submit advance certifications with a commitment that that they will meet requirements for fund release within 90 days of receiving an apportionment. These requirements include, having local matching funds, usually 50 percent of the total project cost, in hand, and construction contracts in place for at least half of the work. School districts in financial hardship are also able to compete for priority-ordered funding to purchase sites or begin design work. The State Allocation Board is responsible for determining the allocation of voter-approved school construction bonds, as well as the administration of the School Facility Program, the Emergency Repair Program and the Deferred Maintenance Program. The SAB is the policy level body for programs administered by the Office of Public School Construction, which provides the staff and support for state financing of school facilities. Senate passes series of gun, ammunition bills SACRAMENTO (AP) — Invoking the image of recent mass shootings, Democrats in the state Legislature on Wednesday passed a series of firearms bills designed to reduce the chances for widespread carnage even as opponents warned that the measures would not keep weapons from those intent on committing horrific crimes. Among other changes, 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 the bills that passed between the Senate and the Assembly would expand the list of people who are prohibited from owning firearms, require permits and a fee when buying ammunition, and ban semi-automatic rifles with detachable ammunition magazines. Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, who pushed the ban on detachable magazines, said the bills would close loopholes in existing laws, keep firearms away from dangerous people and strengthen requirements for gun ownership. He said banning rifles that can be reloaded quickly with detachable magazines would not end gun violence but that it would help. ''How many lives will we save? I would bet many,'' he said. Republican lawmakers said repeatedly that the bills do not address the root of the problem — mental instability — and would only hurt law-abiding gun owners if they become law. Sen. Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber, said much of the legislation effectively criminalized legal behavior. ''This will not affect criminals one whit,'' he said in response to the bill that would require a background check and permit to buy ammunition. ''They will get their ammunition. It certainly will disable law-abiding Californians.'' The bills were among roughly three dozen that were introduced in the Legislature this year as lawmakers in California and other states sought to respond to the mass shootings in Connecticut and Colorado. Other states, including New York, also have approved tough firearms laws this year. Lawmakers are acting on hundreds of bills this week as they face a Friday deadline to pass bills from one house to the other, marking the midway point in the year's legislative session. The firearms bills passing the Senate on Wednesday included: — SB47, which prohibits so-called bullet buttons and other devices that gun manufacturers use to circumvent the state's assault weapons ban and allow swift reloading. A similar bill, AB48, passed in the Assembly and bans conversion kits that allow people to modify their weapons. — SB567, which changes the definition of a type of shotgun that is already banned in the state to include a shotgun-rifle combination. — SB53, which requires ammunition buy- See GUN, page 7A