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Saturday, July 20, 2013 – Daily News Road closures scheduled The following CalTrans construction projects are scheduled to close roads in Tehama County: Interstate 5 • CalTrans will alternate north and southbound lane closures from a half-mile north of Route 36-Antelope Boulevard to the county line from 8 p.m. Sunday to 7 a.m. Monday; and from 6 p.m. to 7 a.m. daily through the rest of the week. • Interstate 5 pavement work will close the northbound Adobe Road on and off ramps from 7 p.m. Sunday to 1 a.m. Monday. The northbound on ramp will be closed from 7 p.m. Monday to 7 a.m. Tuesday. The southbound on and off ramps will be closed from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. Monday. • The Wilcox Road northbound on and off ramps will be closed 7 p.m. Tuesday to 1 a.m. Wednesday. The southbound on and off ramps will be closed from 1 to 7 a.m. Wednesday. • The southbound Hess Road-Oldway Highway 99 off ramp will be closed 1 to 7 a.m. Tuesday. • The Jelly's Ferry Road northbound on and off ramps will be closed from 7 p.m. Wednesday to 1 a.m. Thursday. The southbound on and off ramps will be closed from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. Thursday. • The north and southbound Red Bluff Rest Area and on and off ramps will be closed from 7 p.m. Thursday to 7 a.m. Friday. • The northbound Hooker Creek Road on and off ramps will be closed from 7 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. July 27. The southbound on and off ramps will be closed from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. July 27. Highway 32 • Slope clearing will make the highway one-way traffic for a one-mile stretch about two miles west of route 36 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Highway 36 • Highway 36 will be reduced to one lane from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday from Baker Road to a half-mile west of Monroe Avenue. • Highway 36 will be reduced to one lane for 0.2 miles just west of Route 172 West in Mineral from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday for utility work. Highway 99 • Highway 99 will be reduced to one lane a mile north of Los Molinos to two miles north of Los Molinos for bridge and survey work from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. FEE Continued from page 1A city of Red Bluff for selfhaul loads. In exchange for both sides dropping their claims Waste Connections agreed to defend any suits or actions from claims involving the landfill. The county would still defend itself if the claim is void of any Waste Connections involvement, Goodwin said. The new contract does not require Waste Connections to install a new scalehouse, but it will be required to construct and operate a second scale by Aug. 1, 2015. The agree- BOOK VISION ment reduced the tonnage tipping fee by $1.52. A report by Agency Manager Kristina Miller outlining the proposed contract changes states that the contract is reasonable and improved upon the risk avoidance and ambiguity of the 2003 agreement. The Tehama County- and History. During the past 10 years several short stories she wrote were published in the TCGHS annual publication Memories. For the Continued from page 1A past five years she has been the ediCounty Heritage and Historical tor of Memories. Records Commission. Copies of her book are available Jackson assisted in the writing of through the Tehama County Tehama County 150 Years of Photos Genealogical and Historical Society OUTAGE wooden utility poles and 25 wooden cross arms with all new equipment. Continued from page 1A Eight new fuses were even before a utility work- being installed to help er has reached the area. reduce the number of cusPG&E is replacing 17 tomers impacted by outages. tion, "Is Red Bluff a great place to live? And is it still?" Stevens said: "It's because of this happening 30 years ago. But if you think about the success of our community it's being mindful of our neighbor, our community needs and people rallying around people in good times and in bad times." Continued from page 1A reach a plurality. Enter Walston, who in her 70s turned to show-leather fundraising during the '80s. "She didn't take 'no' for an answer," Stevens said. Walston made a deposit to the city in 1983, but fundraising work continued for years for Walston and a group of supporters. Quincy once wrote: "They sold baked goods at sidewalk sales, served coffee or cold drinks on the sidelines at parades summer and winter, held yard sales, put on luncheons, card parties and spaghetti dinners, sold grocery store receipts for rebates, served hot dogs and sodas at grand openings." The efforts, Stevens said, were driven by Walston's vision. "She had the drive and the determination to say to the community, we need a community center where events can happen, kids can go and do things, there can be dances there can be proms there can be social events, there could be meetings but we need a place," he said. Because of Walston's He added, "What holds our community together is our willingness to be aware of our community needs, our fellow citizens' needs, and assisting." Courtesy photo Goldie Walston and Ron Clark's efforts, Stevens said, the state awarded the county grants to build the center in the 1980s. Since then, the city has owned the land where the center sits at 1500 S. Jackson St., and the county owns the building. The two share financial responsibility to operate the venue. "There are generations in Red Bluff and in Tehama County who grew up knowing this building because they Red Bluff Landfill Management Agency meeting will take place at the Tehama County Board of Supervisors Chambers, 727 Oak St. in Red Bluff. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailyne ws.com. at the Wednesday Night Farmer's Market and online at tccghsoc.org, and at the Tehama County Museum in Tehama 1-4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, and at their Jubilee Sept. 7. The Tehama County Library, Red Bluff branch, has one copy in the Depository and one for circulation. When completed on Tuesday, the upgrades will help reduce both the number and duration of power outages for the 1,342 customers from Manton to Mineral. To keep food cool dur- ing the outage, PG&E suggests freezing plastic bottles filled with water and then transferring them to a refrigerator before the outage begins. Keep the refrigerator closed until power is restored. California finds too few inmates for early release SACRAMENTO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown's administration says in a court filing that the state is falling far short of meeting a demand from federal judges to find thousands of inmates who could be released from prison early without endangering the public. The judges are requiring the state to free nearly 10,000 inmates by the end of the year to ease prison crowding as the best way to improve treatment for sick and mentally ill inmates. If other methods fail, they ordered the state to reach that level by releasing offenders who are deemed unlikely to commit new crimes. However, the state said late Thursday that it has identified only about 1,200 inmates who could be safely released. Last week, Brown asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay the inmate releases while it considers an appeal by the state. Inmates' attorneys filed a 73-page challenge Friday asking the high court to reject that request. The justices should refuse to reconsider the decision they made in 2011, when they upheld the authority of the lower court to order that inmates be released to improve prison conditions, the attorneys said. Moreover, the attorneys said inmates can be released without harming public safety. ''Prisoners are continuing to die and be seriously injured because of the unconstitutional conduct of the state,'' said Don Specter, director of the nonprofit Prison Law Office that is suing to force the state to reduce prison crowding. The lower court has threatened to cite the Democratic governor for contempt if he does not reduce the prison population to about 110,000 inmates by Dec. 31. Last month, the lower court directed the state to take steps, including expanding good-time credits leading to early release, sending more inmates to firefighting camps, paroling sick and elderly felons, leasing cells at county jails and slowing the return of thousands of inmates now housed in private prisons in other states. The state said in its filing that it is working on all those steps. But the panel of three federal judges projected that all those measures would still fall nearly 4,200 inmates short of reaching the population cap. They directed the state to release the remainder from what it dubbed the Low-Risk List if other options fail. However, the administration said it so far can identify only 1,205 lower risk inmates from among the 133,000 inmates who remain in the state's 33 adult prisons, four private prisons and assorted fire camps and community correctional centers. The state already has reduced the prison population by more than 9B 46,000 inmates since 2006, primarily through a 2-year-old state law that is sentencing lower-level criminals to county jails instead of state prisons. As a result, the administration said in its latest court filing that most of the ''low risk'' inmates already are gone. There are 9,077 inmates now serving time for nonviolent, non-serious, and non-sexual offenses, down from 32,397 in June 2007, the state said. However, just 1,205 have a low risk of committing new crimes, do not belong to prison gangs, have not committed felonies in prison within the past 10 years, and have less than a year to serve on their sentences. The count would rise to 1,777 if inmates with more than a year to serve also are released.'' had a dance here, or they had a wedding here or a baby shower. But they have no idea how easily this could not have happened," Stevens said. "And what would we have had?" Walston continued fundraising efforts, Quincy wrote, up until two weeks before her death on Sept. 23, 1993. The auxiliary, Stevens said, has raised about $135,000 over a 30-year period. Referring to the ques- THEFT Continued from page 1A property form the trunk that had been forced open, according to a Tehama County Sheriff's press release. After the confrontation, Elshenaway reported Dyer ran off, according to Tehama County Sheriff's logs. But at 7:29 p.m. Elshenaway called the The event on Aug. 2 will be held from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Entertainment also will include comedian and magician Bryan Gilles. Tickets for Goldie's Dinner cost $8. Scheduled special guests include state Sen. Jim Nielsen, Rep. Doug LaMalfa and Red Bluff Union High School student Austin Smith, who designed the cover art for the event's program. Bingo will be played from 6-10 p.m. "By helping each other and working with each other," Stevens said, "we make that sign truer than ever that Red Bluff is a great place to live." sheriff's department again to report that Dyer had come back and Elshenaway, along with his brother Ahmed Elshenaway, now had him detained. Deputies arrived and observed evidence consistent with witness statements and arrested Dyer for felony burglary. He was booked at Tehama county Jail on $15,000 bail. — Rich Greene San Diego County clerk seeks end to gay marriages SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A San Diego County government official in charge of issuing marriage licenses asked the state Supreme Court on Friday to stop gay marriages. County clerk Ernest Dronenburg Jr. argued that same-sex marriages remain illegal in California despite a U.S. Supreme Court's decision widely regarded as authorizing gay weddings. Dronenburg asked for the halt while the state Supreme Court considers his petition arguing that the U.S. Supreme Court decision applies only to the two couples named in the original federal lawsuit, and to the clerks in Alameda and Los Angeles counties where the couples applied to marriage licenses. Dronenburg also argues that county clerks aren't bound by orders from the governor, the state attorney general and other state officials to marry gay couples. The state Supreme Court on Monday refused a similar request to immediately stop gay weddings made by backers of California's Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in the state when passed by voters in 2008. The supporters have make the same legal arguments as Dronenburg. ''The filing offers no new arguments that could deny same-sex couples their constitutionally protected civil rights,'' state Attorney General Kamala Harris said. 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