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FRIDAY Reader Photos JULY 5, 2013 A's Beat Cubs Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4B SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 101/68 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 Fourth fun Store clerk beaten by masked men Staff report CORNING — A store clerk was confronted by two masked men outside the Shell Fuel Station on Solano St. about 1:15 a.m. Thursday and one of the men hit the clerk several times in the head and face. Corning Police Department officers responded to the store after clerk Timothy Rangel called to report he had been attacked, according to a press release from the department. Rangel said he was standing outside the business See CLERK, page 7A Corning approves temporary worker By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — The City Council June 25 authorized hiring a temporary replacement for a Public Works employee out on a non-workman's compensation injury. Doing so means other departments won't have to wait for maintenance and will ensure that the work does not stack up, Public Works Director Patrick Walker said. "Our mechanic's out for two months with an injury," Walker said. "This way he won't have to injure himself trying to catch up when he returns." The one nice thing about a temporary hire, which is being hired through Express Employment Professionals, is that workman's compensation and insurance will be handled through the agency, Daily News photos by Chip Thompson Above: The Sacramento River was the place to beat the heat Thursday as families flocked to Red Bluff's River Park. Top right: A spirited dodgeball game was one of many activities for kids of all ages Thursday at the annual Play Day at Mill Creek Park in Los Molinos following the Fourth of July Parade on State Route 99E. Bottom right: The Red Bluff Elks Lodge hosted a day-long celebration of Independence Day, culminating with a fireworks display scheduled to be launched from a field just south of the lodge around 9:30 p.m. Thursday. which will save the city money, Walker said. No other city employees are qualified to perform the employee's duties and estimates from local companies range between $84 and $92.50 per hour for labor only to service vehicles and equipment that require immediate attention, City Manager John Brewer said. The cost for Express was quoted at $18-22 per hour with a one-time fee of $25 for drug testing and $21 for a criminal background check, according to the staff report. Grant The council authorized Planning Consultant John Stoufer to apply for a California Department of Housing and Community Development grant See CORNING, page 7A Dental clinic to hold grand opening Greenville Rancheria has announced the Grand Opening of its new Greenville Rancheria dental clinic at 343 Oak St. The grand opening will be 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday July 8. Services will include dental cleaning, filings, emergency services, root canals, extractions, crowns, bridges, dentures, whitening, digital z-rays for less radiation and nitrous oxide is available for sedation. Native and non-natives welcome. The clinic accepts and bills most insurances. Transportation available for those in need. Hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and the clinic will be open one Saturday a month beginning in August. Probation in the dark on some arriving inmates LOS ANGELES (AP) — County probation officials say they aren't consistently getting required notice about inmates being released to their supervision, making it harder to monitor felons and potentially endangering the public. The late notice puts additional pressure on an overburdened criminal justice system where county offices are underfunded and understaffed. Officials worry convicted felons are ending up on the streets without anyone helping or keeping an eye on them. ''You can't watch somebody if you don't know you have to be watching somebody,'' 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 said Karen Pank, executive director of the Chief Probation Officers of California. ''Notice is really important, and logistically we need time to get that into the probation department and assign that case to somebody.'' The issue came to light when Los Angeles County probation officials complained they were given one-day notice in April before the release of Dustin Kinnear, who's now accused of stabbing a woman to death on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. Notification issues were apparently more problematic immediately after the state's criminal justice realignment program, or AB 109, took effect in October 2011 to meet a federal court order to reduce California's prison population. The law sends some criminals 'If people are going to violate their supervision and potentially get arrested, that tends to happen within the first 90 to 180 days' — Ryken Grattet, corrections researcher whose violations weren't serious, violent, or sexual to county jail instead of state prisons and releases those types of inmates on county probation instead of state parole. Because it can take probation officers weeks to review the inmate's criminal background, mental health history and prison records, the law requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to send counties a thorough case file on each inmate at least 30 days before their release. C o r r e c t i o n s spokesman Luis Patino said delays can occur after a short prison sentence, which makes it difficult to process paperwork in time, or when county courts haven't sent enough information on offenders to the state, which is what he said happened with Kinnear. ''We do everything we can to try to give the counties as much lead time as we can,'' Patino said. ''Sometimes it's not just physically possible.'' The department used to give its own parole agency at least 120 days to process inmates before their release, and has aimed to do the same for counties, Patino said. But probation officials in the counties that supervise the largest numbers of ex-cons say they don't always receive information a month in advance. Los Angeles estimates it gets 15 to 20 percent of its 500 inmate notifications late each month; San Diego estimates 14 percent of its 130 inmate notices are tardy; and San Bernardino finds it happens in 5 percent of its 150 cases, according to officials in those counties. In some instances, they receive notice the day before an inmate's release, the day of their release, or once the convict is on the streets. In the case of Kinnear, 26, who's charged with murder in the killing of Christine Calderon last month after she refused to pay him for taking his photo panhandling, it's not clear that a lack of notice would have made a difference. He didn't report to the county probation office as See INMATES, page 7A