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FRIDAY Students Visit Walnut Orchard JUNE 7, 2013 Spurs nab Game 1 Education Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 6A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 108/78 Weather forecast 10A 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 Temperatures to set records over weekend By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer New high temperature records are expected to be set throughout the weekend as hot weather engulfs the region. The National Weather Service issued a special weather statement for the northern Sacramento Valley area as high pressure building across the area will lead to escalating temperatures peaking today and Saturday. Daytime temperatures are expected to be between 15 to 25 degrees above normal ranging from 105 to 112 across the Central Valley. Overnight low temperatures will still be warm, ranging from the mid 60s to mid 70s. AccuWeather is forecasting the temperature Friday will reach 108 degrees, breaking the June 7 record of 104 set in 1938. It will continue to get hotter on Saturday with a forecasted Seniors bid adieu to RBHS By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Red Bluff Union High School suffered a tough year, including the loss of a beloved teacher and students, both past and present, on its way to celebrating the graduating class of 2013. The theme of moving forward and coming together both to heal and to move into the future permeated several of the addresses given. Alexandra Dahnke and Justin Levoua-Patidar welcomed the audience talking about the class not forgetting the loss, but at the same time being resilient. "Our class is the key to the world, capable of great things with honor and integrity," Dahnke said. "They are the faces of the future." Lily Brose was the first of two keynote speakers, talking about the transition the class has undergone from the first timid steps as meek freshman of varying backgrounds to seniors full of confidence. She likened the journey to walking a hallway in which they first peered around the corner and then began to take steps toward the uncertain. "This is another hallway and the steps of this hallway are similar to those as freshman," Brose said. "Full of uncertainty. High school has given us the tools. Let us walk together and remember three things." The first is courage and with each year there will be more of it and more confidence in a high of 112. The June 8 record of 108 degrees was set in 1955. Sunday's high is forecasted at 106 degrees. The June 9 record was 104 set in 1949. See TEMPS, page 9A Supes oppose governor's plan By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The Tehama County Board of Supervisors confirmed its opposition to a plan by Gov. Jerry Brown to redirect county health realignment funds to pay for state social services. Supervisors Bob Williams and Steve Chamblin preceded their motions Tuesday to confirm a letter detailing the county's objection was sent to state legislators with the word "gladly." Brown's plan would redirect around $2.5 billion in county health program funding in the next three years to CalWORKS programs including child care and CalFresh. Brown has argued counties will no longer need the money for indigent care because those patients would See PLAN, page 9A Man charged in Corning drive-by By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff High School students Amanee Izhaq, left, and Taylor Wood, right, sign a stuffed duck for Paula Miller, who works in the cafeteria. Each year Miller has the students she has grown close to sign a stuffed animal for her. journey that is not one where parents shove them forward, but a step must be taken forward, she said. "It's a leap of faith whether it's 180 degree turns or something amazing," Brose said. The second thing is humility and students need to remember that things will never be perfect, but they can always be made better whether it's in the classroom, on the field or in life in general, she said. The staff at Red Bluff See GRADS, page 9A A 30-year-old Corning man was arrested and booked into Tehama County Jail on the charge of attempted murder in connection with a Wednesday evening drive by shooting in Corning. Ryan Daniel Griffin, also known as Ryan Wood, was booked on the charges of possession of a loaded firearm in a vehicle, discharging a firearm at an inhabited dwelling, convicted felon in possession of a firearm and conspiracy to commit a crime. A parole hold was placed. The incident took place at 5:16 p.m. Wednesday in the 500 block of Chestnut Avenue where one shot was fired in a drive-by shooting in association with an attempted murder, Corning Police Acting Chief Ralph Schmidt said. No one was injured. The suspects fled in a dark colored Jeep, last seen heading toward Solano Street. It was later located by Corning Police after Griffin was identified during the investigation. Griffin was taken into custody and officers recovered the weapon used, Schmidt said. According to logs, witnesses reported two men in a Jeep drove by and shot at them. Logs list the passenger as a white man with no shirt and multiple tattoos. Bail was set at $1.28 million. The case is still under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact Corning Police at 824-7000. Man released, Centennial graduates 19 seniors shows up drunk By ANDRE BYIK DN Sports Editor A 22-year-old Red Bluff man on Post Release Community Supervision left jail Wednesday only to be arrested again later in the day after he reportedly caused a drunken disturbance at his sister's apartment. Around 5 p.m. the Red Bluff Police Department was dispatched to an apartment on the 1100 block of Union Street. Officers arrived and contacted a woman who advised her brother Timothy Michael Robbins had been released from jail earlier in the day, according to a department press release. The woman said Robbins had come to her home under the influence of alcohol, wanting to hold her infant child. Robbins then tried to get someone to "wrestle" 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 with him for $100. While Robbins was kicking and punching around in the air, he nearly struck a child. He then began jabbing his sister in the shoulder, at which time she called the police. The sister placed Robbins under citizen's arrest for battery and officers arrested him on scene. Robbins, who was reinstated on Post Release Community Supervision May 6, was booked at Tehama County Jail on a bail of $1,000. On New Year's Day Robbins was arrested for a probation violation near Franklin and Cedar streets following reports he was trying to steal dogs and chasing children. No one was injured and no victims were located in the incident. At the time of the arrest officers described his behavior as abnormal. — Rich Greene CORNING — Graduating from high school, for some, is an anticipated and inevitable milestone. For others, the opportunity to move a graduation cap's tassel from right to left marks an accomplishment that may never have come. Nineteen students graduated from Corning Union High School District's Centennial High School on Thursday at Veterans Memorial Hall, where hundreds of wellwishers gathered with cameras and smartphones in hand. Six students graduated from Corning High School Independent Study. Centennial educates students that don't necessarily fit in at a traditional high school, and students that could benefit from a different approach to learning, which at Centennial is a more personal process. "Sometimes you take a bite out of life and come up with a mouth Daily News photo by Andre Byik Nineteen students graduated from Centennial High School on Thursday at Veterans Memorial Hall in Corning. Jonathan Ables, right, stands next to Barbara Cardenas. full of dirt," Centennial teacher Phil Rowland said in a speech. "But you keep going anyway. And that's why we're here today. Everyone on this stage behind me has screwed up ... But they kept going anyway." Rowland is retiring after 27 years with the district. Also retiring is education staff member Randi James. Some students, education staff member Jesse Beardsley said, showed a 180 degree turn in character from when they entered Centennial to when they earned their diploma. In a speech, graduate Jonathan Ables credited his teachers that pushed him to succeed and graduate. "Success is not the See SENIORS, page 9A