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TUESDAY Decongestants, Birth Defects JULY 23, 2013 Swim Results Vitality Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Partly cloudy 96/70 Weather forecast 8B 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 Landfill deal to boost tipping fee By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The Tehama County-Red Bluff Landfill Management Agency agreed to a new 10-year contract Monday with Waste Connections to operate the county landfill. The agreement raises the tipping fee on users by almost $6 per ton to $54.26, beginning March 1, 2014. In return Waste Connections agreed to take on a range of risk and liability issues regarding the operation of the landfill. The two sides also agreed to drop a disagreement over amounts owed each other as part of the existing contract, which was set to expire at the end of February. Waste Connections claimed it was owed more than $500,000 by the Agency for fees the company said were overpaid. The Agency said Waste Connections owed $194,590 for various expenses it had to cover in recent years. Tehama County Supervisor Steve Chamblin, who voted for the new contract, said he was troubled with the relationship the two sides have had. That relationship was tested again even before the 8 a.m. meeting when the Agency board received an email from Waste Connections' legal team seeking last minute changes to the contract's language. Many boardmembers said they were ready to postpone the meeting, until they were reassured by Waste Connections management that the agreed Fire guts Cottonwood home upon language would be fine. The board approved the contract 6-3 with Tehama County Supervisors Burt Bundy, Dennis Garton and Bob Williams voting against the deal. Bundy and Williams pushed the board to reexamine an Agency proposal from earlier in the year to operate the landfill See FEE, page 7A Red Bluff man to aid Sandy victims Staff Report Red Bluff resident Steve Engler will depart Sunday to the storm ravaged New Jersey shore as part of an 18member disaster relief team. International Relief Teams said Engler and the team will be deployed to Forked River in Ocean County, N.J., as part of the organization's first deployment of construction volunteers to the area after Superstorm Sandy damaged more than 250,000 homes in October 2012 and has been blamed for leaving more than 200 dead. "The team will rebuild and repair the homes of storm victims who have been qualified by A Future with Hope to ensure that those who cannot recover on their own will receive help," according to a news release. A Future with Hope is the disaster relief arm of the Greater New Jersey United Methodist Conference. The 18-person crew is the largest summer construction team the organization has sent to a devastated area, according to the release. "Teams are traditionally smaller during the hot, See SANDY, page 7A 'Fedora Bandit' gets 9 years Daily News photo by Andre Byik Firefighters contain a blaze that destroyed a mobile home and heavily damaged another Monday afternoon at Frontier Mobile Home Park and Apartments at 3789 Main St. in Cottonwood. By ANDRE BYIK DN Staff Writer COTTONWOOD — A fire destroyed a vacant mobile home Monday afternoon and heavily damaged a second home at Frontier Mobile Home Park and Apartments. Cottonwood Fire Protection District responded to a fully involved mobile home at 3789 Main St. about noon, said Dave Hotchkiss, Cal Fire Shasta-Trinity battalion chief. The fire started in the vacant home and spread to a double-wide mobile home, which is situated a few feet behind the destroyed unit. The double-wide sustained heavy fire damage. Residents of the double-wide home made it out of their home and were uninjured, Hotchkiss said. The fire was contained about 1:08 p.m. The estimated loss totaled $60,000 with a contents loss total of $25,000, according to a Cottonwood Fire Protection District news release. The cause of the fire is under investigation. A stretch of Main Street near the mobile home park was closed as fire crews from Red Bluff Fire Department, Anderson Fire Department, Cal Fire Tehama Fire, Shasta County Fire Department and Redding Fire Department responded. Robert Jacobson, who lives near- Residents of sinking subdivision file claim LAKEPORT (AP) — For months homeowners agonized as houses in their subdivision sank one-by-one into a California hilltop. It got so dangerous that the U.S. Postal Service refused to deliver mail. Now, they say they know the reason eight homes were destroyed and 10 others are in danger, and they've taken the first step toward recouping damages by filing a claim against Lake County. A leaking county water system that went undetected for months saturated the hillside and caused the ground to give way, said Michael Green, an attorney for the 41 homeowners in the subdivision 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 with sweeping views of Clear Lake in Northern California. Green is seeking $5 million for each homeowner in the claim filed last month against the county. ''They're facing a pretty significant economic disaster,'' he said. County officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment. They have 45 days to respond to Green's claim for damages before he can file a lawsuit. Lake County supervisors previously asked Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a disaster area, but the request was declined. The county has maintained that a landscape irrigation system operated by the Lakeside Heights homeowners association could have contributed to the ground saturation. See CLAIM, page 7A by, said he left his home for lunch but returned to a blocked off street. He said he saw smoke billowing up from the mobile home park but couldn't tell whether his home was aflame. "It was nerve racking. I got all kinds of stuff in my house: albums, stereo equipment," Jacobson said. "I lived here 14 years, never had any problems." Ted Urbina, who lives near the double-wide home that was damaged, said the occupants of the vacant mobile home moved out about a week ago. Hotchkiss said crews were expected to work at the scene into Monday evening. SACRAMENTO — David Griffith Osborne, 75, formerly of Carson City, Nev., was sentenced today to nine years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for three counts of armed bank robbery, United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced. On Jan. 11, Osborne pleaded guilty to robbing the following banks: Bank of the West in Gridley, American River Bank in Rancho Cordova and Chase Bank in Paradise in the spring of 2010. Osborne also admitted to four other bank robberies and will be required to pay $55,929 in restitution for all seven robberies. The other robberies are all Bank of the West branches in Grass Valley, South Lake Tahoe, and Kings Beach and were robbed in late 2009 and early 2010. In each of his seven robberies, Osborne wore a hat, sunglasses, a fake mustache and goatee, and demanded money while brandishing a firearm. Osborne was identified on surveillance images, and after the June 29, 2010, robbery of the Paradise bank, his DNA was recovered from an abandoned bicycle that he used as a getaway vehicle. See FEDORA, page 7A Teen arrested after crash, injuries A Redding teen was arrested early Sunday after the car he was driving crashed into a tree at the corner of Walbridge and Johnson streets, injuring passengers. Sterling Glenn, 19, of Redding was found at the scene and showed signs of intoxication when officers arrived, according to a press release issued by the Red Bluff Police Department. Glenn was driving a 2001 Buick and attempted to turn north from Johnson to Walbridge and lost control, striking a tree. A woman, 22, was transported to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital for moderate injuries to her face and possible major injuries to her back, the release said. A man, 18, complained of chest pain but declined medical attention. The car sustained major damage. Glenn was booked at Tehama County Jail on a felony DUI charge. Photo courtesy of Ross Palubeski A Redding teen was arrested early Sunday morning after driving his car into a tree at the corner of Walbridge and Johnson streets in Red Bluff. Sterling Glenn, 19, was charged with felony DUI. Two passengers were injured.