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WEDNESDAY Perfecting Giants Take On Nationals Fish Tacos AUGUST 14, 2013 County Fare Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 98/64 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 School days Two killed in Paradise plane crash PARADISE — A plane crashed about 11:40 a.m. Tuesday east of the Neal Road landfill, killing two people and sparking a vegetation fire that burned between 10-15 acres. Cal Fire Battalion Chief Chris Haile said there's not much left of the plane. He said neither the type of plane nor the gender of the two victims could be immediately be determined from what's left. The crash happened in Hamlin Canyon, south of Neal Road, about six miles southwest of Paradise See PLANE, page 7A Daily News photo by Rich Greene By RICH GREENE affiliation, with a selfcontained classroom style. DN Staff Writer The school has also Summer vacation is changed its mascot from By RICH GREENE over. the Vikings to the Eagles. Students across Red This will be the first DN Staff Writer Bluff head back to the year without a number of Even residents with no children in school should be classrooms today for the individual mountain-area aware of the school year starting again. first day of the school districts as Antelope EleThe first week of school can be a hectic time not just year for the city's elemenmentary absorbs Manfor the students, teachers and parents but for motorists tary and high school diston, Mineral and Plum in the area of area schools. tricts. Valley. Many children will be walking or riding a bicycle to It's also the first day of All of the previous school for the first time. It also could be the first time school in Los Molinos and schools are remaining those who recently received a driver's license experifor Lassen View. open, but the district reorence school zones. Reeds Creek students ganization will allow for The Red Bluff Police Department has a list of tips get an extra day as the financial savings through for local residents to ensure a safe return to school. school opens Thursday. a larger infrastructure and Drivers and parents Antelope, Elkins and streamlined administraEvergreen are scheduled tion. See SCHOOL, page 7A to start Monday, while Tehama County, which Corning and Flournoy stuonce had 139 districts, dents will head back Aug. will enter the school year with 14. 22. Red Bluff Union High School is ushering in several While life for most students and parents will get new faces in administration as Ron Fisher takes over back to the normal Monday-Friday routine there are a principal and Brad Wagner as athletic director. number of substantial changes taking place in Tehama And at Mercy High School it's so long to textbooks. County's education system. The school is going with all-digital textbooks in an Perhaps none greater than at Vista, where the middle effort to save money and adjust with the changing techschool will welcome in sixth grade students and nological times. become the Vista Preparatory Academy. The school will use a 7-house structure, in which Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 each house will choose a name, mascot and college or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. Safety around schools Life in the Diamond Match logging camps Special to the Daily News A new book by Bill Dennison, formerly of Red Bluff, and Clifford "Blackie" Gilbert chronicles the life stories and histories of the children who lived in the Diamond Match Co. logging camps between 1927 and 1944. "What's In The Woods?" was written because of a passion to preserve history and the true stories of six camp youngsters — now 79 and 93 years of age — who grew up in The Diamond Match Co, logging camps. Dennison and Gilbert, Editor Barbara Mann and publisher Butte Meadows/Jonesville Community Association had the foresight to include early Northern California logging and sawmill history leading up to and including these 1927-44 logging camps. The 1909-53 Diamond logging camps in Butte County became a critical part of the local and national economy. These mountain communities emulated the changing times of our nation from the earliest logging days of the Great Depression Era and the westward migration of thousands of people. It was a period of drastic change in the forest products industry and in the lives of the people who helped supply vital wood products which played an extremely See CAMPS, page 7A Public pension RB chopper crashes searching for pot changes imperil transit money SACRAMENTO (AP) — Public pension reforms pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown could cost the state billions of dollars intended for transit projects, according to the federal government. The U.S. Department of Labor sent a letter to the Democratic governor this month warning that California's efforts to limit state and local government pensions appear to violate a federal mass transit grant regulation, The Sacramento Bee (http://bit.ly/14GnixY) reported Tuesday. The regulation requires that transportation agencies protect employees' collective bargaining rights. Decisions by the labor department later this week could begin stalling $1.6 billion in federal money this year alone. Ultimately, more than 100 federal grants could be halted unless the problem is resolved. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 California Labor Secretary Marty Morgenstern argued in a letter to the federal government in February that the pension reforms that took effect Jan. 1 do not affect collective bargaining agreements. He said the law simply modifies retirement plans that can be offered to government employees. But the federal government and transportation labor unions disagree. The new law increases local and state government employees' pension contributions and provides lower retirement benefits for workers who joined a public pension fund after Jan. 1. Unions representing about 20,000 transportation workers filed objections with the federal government soon after the law took effect, the Bee reported. That halted federal funds while the U.S. Labor Department decides whether to decertify California transportation agencies for not folSee PUBLIC, page 7A AP photo BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The annual search for marijuana gardens grown by Mexican drug cartels in Eastern Oregon's Harney County got off to a rough start when a helicopter from Red Bluff suffered engine failure and crash-landed. The McDonnell Douglas 369E was being leased by the U.S. Department of Justice from PJ Helicopters of Red Bluff. The Harney County Sheriff's office said the pilot and the deputy flying with him walked away unhurt Monday. The crash was near Calamity Butte on the Malheur National Forest. Sgt. Brian Needham says it was the first day of a federal, state and county marijuana eradication program. He says they hope to resume in a few weeks if another helicopter can be arranged. Needham says the National Transportation Safety Board is sending the engine to the manufacturer for inspection. Smog Inspection $ 2595 +$825 certificate (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) • Members Welcome 530 527-9841 195 S. Main St., Red Bluff