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MONDAY AUGUST 2, 2010 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 6A RED BLUFF New look for Weather page Going for a sweep SPORTS 1B Sunny 96/65 Weather forecast 6A 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 What a drag Scouts join national BSA celebration By GEOFF JOHNSON DN Staff Writer Two Red Bluff Boy Scouts, a Cub Scout and scout supporters gathered at the Tehama County Department of Education Saturday to join a nationwide celebration commemorating 100 years of Boy Scouting. Aired live from the 100th Anniversary National Jamboree in Fort AP Hill, Va., online, on cable and via satellite, “A Shining Light Across America” opened with Chief Scout Executive Robert Mazzuca rappelling down a tower in full uniform. It ended, two-and-a-half- hours later, with fireworks and a video highlighting famous former Boy Scouts, including Jim Morrison, Steven Spielberg and 11 of the first 12 men to land on the moon. Flanking the presentation in Virginia was video footage from parallel celebrations in New York City, Jackson, Fla. and at the Crazy Horse Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The show featured lessons on the origins of the Star- Spangled Banner and Boy Scouting in America. It included a scout dance number comprised of pop-punk See BSA, page 3A Daily News photo by Geoff Johnson Tom Biglione, Sacramento, hauls his kayak out of the Sacramento River Saturday. Biglione took third in the Family Challenge at the Fourth Annual Great National Canoe and Kayak Drag Race at the Red Bluff River Park. Canoe, kayak race bigger than ever By GEOFF JOHNSON DN Staff Writer Canoes and classic cars collided Saturday, not literally but in what may have been the largest Great National Canoe and Kayak Drag Race in years. Named after the defunct Nitro Nationals Drag Boat Festival, the race, the fourth in as many years, pits canoes and kayaks in races up and down Lake Red Bluff at Red Bluff River Park. The race was bumped from its usual slot in May by the shrinking window for the man-made lake, cre- ated when the Red Bluff Diversion Dam gates are lowered. Federal authorities, having ruled the dam interferes with fish passage, issued tight restrictions on use of the gates. The boat races also lost the sup- port of the Cookin’ in the Park Dutch Oven Cook-Off. Until this year it was held in conjunction with the kayak races, but organizers of that contest decided to keep it in May. But boat fans floated on and found a new ally in Gibbs Auto Body, which sponsored a car show Race Winners: Single paddle kayak: Age 40 plus- 1. Eric Pettinger Age 50 plus- 1. Robert Beller Age 60 plus- 1. Richard Clapp Single and double canoe: Age 40 plus- 1. Mike and Viki Ammon Age 50 plus- 1. Bigetto Double kayak: 1. Tom and Mather Crackel Family challenge: 1. Tom and Mather Crackel 2. Mike and Vikki Ammon 3. Tom Biglione Corporate race: 1. Care Free Pools 2. Riverside Bar and Grill 3. Luigi's Marathon race: 1. Tom Crackel (Kayak) 1. Mike Ammon (Canoe) Saturday. Owners Kevin and Sunny Cope were prompted by the city to park on the green with more than 70 com- Campaign watchdog eyes Internet rules SACRAMENTO (AP) — Politicians’ tweets and status updates should be held to the same standards as paid advertising that vot- ers see on television, hear on radio or find in their mailboxes, California’s campaign watchdog agency says in a report being released Monday. The Fair Political Prac- tices Commission is consid- ering how to regulate new forms of political activity such as appeals on a voter’s Facebook page or in a text message. It’s become necessary as politicians in California and elsewhere announce their candidacies and major cam- paign policies through Twit- ter, YouTube and a host of social networking sites, said FPPC Chairman Dan Schnur. He said California’s 36- year-old Political Reform Act needs rewriting to keep up with the times. ‘‘Our goal here is to meet the new challenges of 21st Century technology,’’ Schnur said. ‘‘There’s no way that the authors of the act could have anticipated that these of types of com- municating a campaign message would ever exist.’’ The report, compiled by a commission subcommit- tee, outlines possible hur- dles to regulating online content, such as how to include full disclosure of who is behind a message in a 140-character tweet or a text. Any changes the com- mission makes to state law should give regulators the 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See RULES, page 3A Daily News photo by Chip Thompson One of about 100 local youths cools off in Mill Creek at Camp Tehama Saturday during the annual Red Bluff Kiwanis Camp. Campers returned to Red Bluff Sunday morning. petitors at Red Bluff River Park, they said. The resulting competition was big enough to accommodate classic cars, motorcycles and even some bicycles. “I think it’s the intrigue of seeing something you don’t look at every day,” Sunny Cope said, offering an explanation for the big first-year turnout. The contest served as the auto show debut of Danny Clough, who coaches Red Bluff sports, including soccer and football. It took two years, a heaping of community volunteers, midnight car washing, his three stepsons and his daughter to get Clough’s 1990 Mus- tang Saleen convertible ready for the show. “It’s a labor of love,” he said. As a hobby, working on the Mus- tang is cheaper than drinking — and less trouble, Clough said. But the boats were not riding backseat. Heading upstream and downstream to the music of the One Nite Only Band, marathon paddlers traversed 10 miles worth of the water in laps between Antelope Boulevard to Interstate 5 and back. For visitors just getting their feet wet, organizers offered demonstra- See DRAG, page 3A Corning OKs Rodgers work By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — The City Council approved Tuesday as part of its consent agenda authorizing staff to seek bids for re-roofing and energy efficiency improvements for the Rodger’s Theatre. The engineer’s cost estimate listed in the staff report puts the project at $131,500. The city and community volunteers have been work- ing together since 2006 to get money to refurbish the theater and the Corning Community Foundation was founded as a non-profit with the goal of working to fix- up the theater. During a January meeting, foundation Treasurer Kyle Lauderdale said the most critical work included re-roofing, demolition of the interior auditorium and installation of new concrete flooring. According to the staff report, leaks in the roof have damaged the interior of the structure. Contractor Richard Rezendez and Architectural Draftsman Bob Metzger have been working with the foundation to redesign the building so it could be used for a variety of community events. Rezendez, Metzger and Structural Engineer Eric Asmus have been working to design the new roof with necessary structural elements to support roof-mounted heating, ventilation and air conditioning units. The State Parks and Recreation Department has given the green light to use up to $220,000 of the city’s Park Bond Funds for the restoration project. Staff has been working for several months trying to get more funding from the California Energy Commis- See RODGERS, page 3A Totally tubular, dude