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WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18, 2010 Breaking news at: New Home Care Business Commerce www.redbluffdailynews.com See Pages 4A-5A RED BLUFF Cards Week II SPORTS 1B Sunny 93/62 Weather forecast 8A By GREG WELTER MediaNews Group The girlfriend of a man charged with vehicular manslaughter after a Olive View School teacher was struck and killed, and currently in cus- tody at the Butte County Jail in 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 Girlfriend of suspect in teacher death arrested Oroville, has been arrested for selling marijuana, allegedly to pay his legal bills. Rachel Hartfield, 19, allegedly sold marijuana earlier this month to an agent working undercover with the Butte Inter- agency Narcotics Task Force. Officials said an 11-year-old girl was in a vehicle Hartfield drove to the transaction and witnessed the contact between the woman and the agent. In a press release, BINTF said the undercover agent made it clear he did not possess a medical marijuana recommendation. The release further states Fabulous ‘50s By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Staff at the William B. Ide Adobe State Histori- cal Park are busy getting ready for the 31st annual Adobe Day, set for noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 21. “We hope to see a lot of the families come out to enjoy a beautiful day in their local park and try their hands at learning some pioneer skills,” said Debbie Chakarun, a State Park interpreter. “We always try to make it an affordable event. We just want them to come have fun.” The theme will be Red Bluffs — Head of Navi- gation and there will be activities for a variety of ages including the oppor- tunity to watch black- smith Brad Hudson and see river boat agent George Giddings in action in the year 1852. Giddings will be sell- ing tickets for space on the ship the Orient and Dave Freeman will be there with his donkeys. Dutch oven cook Don Mason will be demon- strating his cooking skills and Mademoiselle Zim- mer will be there with her traveling puppet show. The Ide Adobe Play- ers, musicians David Lon- gaker and Jim Williams, will provide music and there will be dancers doing the Virginia Reel. Children will have the chance to make butter, candles, bricks, corn husk dolls and ox yoke puzzles. There will be the chance for boys to get a shave and girls to have rag Hartfield said the money would go toward attorney’s fees for the defense of her boyfriend, Jimmy Candido Flores, 25, of Forest Ranch. According to officials, Flores and Hartfield are suspected of growing the pot at a Durham home. Officials said Hartfield drove the same badly damaged BMW sport utility vehicle to the drug exchange that Flores was dri- ving July 22 when he allegedly hit and killed Carrie Jean Holi- man, a 56 year-old Chico woman, as she jogged on Oro Chico Highway. See SUSPECT, page 7A Pactiv board okays $4.4B sale NEW YORK (AP) — Reynolds Group, part of the global packaging business owned by New Zealand’s richest man, said Tuesday it will pay about $4.4 billion for Hefty bag maker Pactiv. Including debt, the acquisition is valued at around $6 billion. Pactiv Corp., based in Lake Forest, Ill., has a plant in Red Bluff. How the acquisition will affect the local plant or any other operation is yet to be known, Pactiv Corp. spokesman Matthew Gonring said. The acquisi- tion is meant to grow and integrate Pactiv as a business with other Rank Group Ltd. companies. “(The Red Bluff plant) is certainly a very important part of the company’s operations and is integral to our business moving forward,” Gonring said. Pactiv’s board of directors has unanimously approved the merger agreement and will recommend See PACTIV, page 7A Corning considers Kauffman fate By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Photo courtesy of Bob McConnell One of the many activities during Adobe Day is brick making. curlers put in their hair and a host of things to purchase from the mer- cantile. New this year will be the opportunity for chil- dren to help weigh items Excessive Bell salaries prompt bills in Calif SACRAMENTO (AP) — California lawmakers are debating bills stemming from a salary scandal in the small Los Angeles suburb of Bell that set off a fierce debate about the compensa- tion of municipal employ- ees. The deadline to intro- duce new bills in the Cali- fornia Legislature passed in February, but lawmakers are amending existing bills to allay fears that other munic- ipalities could be paying excessive salaries to their employees. Under one bill going before the Legislature this week, SB501, all city, coun- ty and school district employees would have to report their compensation each year and have it posted on a public website. The secretary of state would develop a form for employees to report salaries, stipends and other reimbursement. ‘‘We have all heard about the pillaging in the city of Bell,’’ Assemblyman Hector De La Torre, D- South Gate, co-sponsor of the bill, told colleagues in a recent address. ‘‘This is one measure...that will be com- ing through the process so that we will never see this situation again.’’ Sen. Lou Correa, D- Anaheim, said he intro- duced SB501 to increase transparency in all levels of government. He said mem- bers of the Legislature and their staffs already report their compensation pub- licly. ‘‘People look through this stuff, and I think that’s good for the system,’’ Cor- rea said. That bill will be heard in the Assembly Local Gov- ernment Committee on Wednesday. Another bill, AB1955, See BILLS, page 7A 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Red Bluff Outdoor Power on scales, pack a mule and observe an 1850s style drill press in action. Instead of searching for wanted men there will be a game for children in which they get a sheet with pictures of several activities on it. After they have completed all the activities, including find- ing out about a person’s trade, making a rope, See '50S, page 7A CORNING — The City Council will consider the purchase of the Kauff- man Building, 1302 to 1310 Solano Street, again at its Aug. 24 meeting after council deadlocked again in a 2-2 vote at a special meeting Monday. “That building has been looked at by an engi- neer and is in danger of falling,” said Mayor Gary Strack. “Now that we’re aware of the liability something needs to be done.” The owners can’t afford to restore or demol- ish the building due to a serious illness in the fami- ly and have offered it to the city for $1, said City Manager Steve Kim- brough. Bill Grant owned the building for a number of years before selling it to Mark and Sherry Ephland of Crescent City, who sold it to a Nevada investor. The investor had start- ed demolishing the sheds at the rear of the building, but ran into financial trou- ble and the building was recently foreclosed on, the staff report said. Resident Paulyne White has been in contact with the owners and said they have worked very hard for the last two years to sell the building and that Sherry Ephland has been going through cancer treatments, but the couple has hopes of a non-profit stepping forward to save the building. A report by respected See FATE, page 7A Gelding event saves $17k Saturday, Shipwrecked Farms’ Relief Efforts helped financially strug- gling horsemen to save an estimated $17,000. In all, 21 horses were gelded during what the non-profit hopes to become an annual event. Seven were crypt orchids — a case in which one or both testicles are caught up inside the body and are unable to descend normally. Cryptoid surg- eries generally run between $800 and $3,000 depending on the difficul- ty of the surgery. Normal castration can cost between $200 and $300. Without this clinic these horses were likely to never be gelded or dra- matically increase their chances of going to slaughter. Stallions are usually committed to a life of small pens and stalls and have a much higher chance of life threatening injuries, sometimes unpredictable and are much more likely to hurt humans than are geld- owners. Courtesy photo ings. All 21 horses in our community now have a positive future ahead of them. Those that were going to be given away, EARN EXTRA MONEY work your own hours, quick pay, must be 18 yrs+, have drivers license & insured vehicle. (866) 906-8036 Job Ref#26044 Deliver new telephone directories in the Glenn-Tehama area. FT/PT, which further increases the odds of going to slaughter, due to the high costs of the cryptoid surgery, have returned home with their loving Shipwrecked Farms’ Relief Efforts still has much to do to further its cause. It is in need of financial support as well as supplies in order to continue making a differ- ence. All donations are tax deductible. To make a donation, call Shipwrecked Farms’ Relief Efforts at 529- 0432 or send an e-mail to shipwreckedfarms@sbc- global.net. To find out more of what Shipwrecked Farms is doing to help the com- munity or check on future events, go to www.ship- wreckedfarms.com. PHYSICIAN REFERRAL A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1-800-990-9971 CHW North State Region