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TUESDAY Burger From A Laboratory AUGUST 6, 2013 Cycling Club Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4B SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 95/61 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 Market seeks shade Deputies' raises help offset retirement payments By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Tehama County and its largest represented law enforcement union have reached a new contract running through June 2016. The Board of Supervisors adopted a resolution July 30 approving the Memorandum of Understanding with the Deputy Sheriffs' Association. All employees in the bargaining unit will receive an immediate 3 percent salary increase. Safety employees will receive another 3 percent increase July 1, 2014, while miscellaneous employees will receive 1 percent increases in 2014 and 2015. The contract will cost the county an additional $32,063 in salary increases, held in check by a change in employee contributions to state benefit programs. There could be additional costs to the county if employees reach educational incentives. Language is still being discussed on educational incentives for correctional officers. Association President Chad Parker described the negotiations as a positive experience and described the contract as beneficial to both sides. County representatives said likewise and pointed to the $132,000 the unit had saved the county when it agreed to pay 6 percent of salaries toward CalPERS in See RAISES, page 7A Daily News photo by Andre Byik A barbecue and beer tasting event at the Frontier Village Farmers Market on Saturday raised funds to go toward a shade covering for the market at 645 Antelope Blvd. By ANDRE BYIK DN Staff Writer The Frontier Village Farmers Market came closer to shielding itself from the sun as glasses went bottoms up on Saturday. In an inaugural effort to raise money for a shade covering, the year-round Saturday farmers market at 645 Antelope Blvd. hosted a barbecue and beer garden event in which $7 of each $20 ticket sold went toward the estimated $3,500 cost of a covering. "We have this wonderful metal structure and we are looking at putting a permanent cover up," market manager Sandy Burkett said. "Also we just really like showcas- ing our farmers and what they have to sell. That's what our barbecue is. Everything that we are serving has come from our vendors here at our market." The covering wouldn't protect the market, which hosts crafts vendors as well, from the rain, Burkett said. "But considering Red Bluff has more sunny days than rainy days right now…" Brewers on tap included Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., which Burkett said reflected the market's sustainable philosophy, and a duo of home brewers who pitched that making beer isn't as cumbersome as it may seem. Bryan Bonser, of Paradise said he's been brewing for about eight years, had amber and blond ales to show for it, and good worth of mouth to speak for his craft. "I just wanted to see if I could make beer," Bonser said of his start. "Then you get addicted." Nearby was a flip book of the beer brewing process and photos of his hop garden, with columns hop plants trained to grow toward to sky. Referring to beer making kits that go for about $50 Bonser said, "It'll make beer, but not good beer." Next to him stood Wayne Peterson, of Corning and a beer brewer with about 15 years experience. As See SHADE, page 7A Man stabbed in Rancho Tehama A Rancho Tehama man reported he was stabbed Saturday evening during an argument at his residence. Emmett Dancer, 44, told deputies he was arguing with a man he knew at his North Mendocino Avenue home when another person stabbed him in the lower back with a small folding knife, according the a press release issued Monday afternoon by the Tehama County Sheriff's Department. Dancer said the two men, whom he knew, then left the area. Deputies were not able to finde the suspects. Dancer was taken to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital where he was treated for a minor stab wound and released. Deputies are actively looking for the two individuals men. Report details New book planned about Tuscan Springs economic benefits of water project FRESNO (AP) — A proposed twin-tunnel water system in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta coupled with a massive habitat restoration effort would generate billions of dollars in economic activity for California, according to an economic report released by state water officials on Monday. Implementation of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan would lead to $4.8 billion to $5.4 billion in economic benefits for California water users. The tunnels would provide a new avenue for shipping water from the delta south to farms and cities. The analysis also found that building the tunnels would create thousands of construction jobs and increase recreational opportunities and jobs in the delta. The project would also prevent further water delivery cuts and save about a million agricultural jobs that might otherwise be lost as a result of stricter environmental flow requirements to protect threatened fish. Critics say the analysis 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 is biased and incomplete, and that the state has exaggerated benefits of water reliability while underestimating negative impacts on the delta. The tunnels, critics say, would devastate delta agriculture, recreation and fisheries because they would suck more water from the estuary. And because the impacts of habitat restoration on fish are not known, they say the idea that more habitat could save dwindling fish species and create jobs is an assumption that may prove untrue. Though the study was not able to quantify the tunnels' impacts on commercial fisheries, water officials say those impacts would be positive. The study also predicts annual decreases in agricultural revenues in the delta region of $1.86 million and an additional $3 billion loss of economic activity over a 50-year period as a result of agricultural land retirement in the delta. Transportation disruptions and delays due to construction of the giant tunnels were estimated to range from $53 million to $79 million. The economic analysis assumes that without the See WATER, page 7A Courtesy photo A unique photo panorama of Tuscan Springs Resort that has never before been published. The pieces of this triptych were scattered across several locations in Tehama County. A photographic account of the famous Tuscan Springs mineral water resort near Red Bluff is scheduled for release in March, 2014. What author Bryon Burruss hopes will be the definitive account of the fabled resort will include photos that haven't been seen in a century. The book, contracted for Arcadia Publishing's "Images of America" series, will be written by Burruss, a former reporter and copy editor for the Daily News from 1995 to 2001, and co-author of a popular stage comedy about the resort in 1996. Burruss has an intense interest in the resort and has been collecting information about it for more than 20 years. He signed in June with Arcadia, a renowned publisher of localized U.S. history. There has never before been a book written about the resort, but Burruss hopes this will be the definitive account. "There has never been an accurate history of this keystone of Tehama County history," Burruss said. Since first digging into the resort in the 1990s, Burruss said, the holdings at the Tehema County Library, the Tehama Museum and Kelly-Grig- gs Museum have all shrunk by at least half, which is really unfortunate. "It's sad to think what might have been in the files in the 1960s or '70s and now it's all gone," Burruss said. Burruss has managed to undercover a unique photo panorama that has never before been published. The pieces of the triptych were scattered over several locations in Tehama County and were probably never connected, since they were not suitable for darkroom assembly. "The first two portions were fairly aligned, but the photographer took a few steps to his right before he shot the third," Burruss said. "It would have been impossible to fit the pictures together accurately in a darkroom without the use of modern photo software." The resulting photo shows the resort, from end to end, as it stood in about 1903, including details of cots near the pool and piping from the hot springs to the resort's furnaces. It provides a more expansive view of the resort than has ever been seen. Additionally, Burruss has recently uncovered See BOOK, page 7A