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WEDNESDAY Tabbouleh Cardinals Preview Gets Healthy SEPTEMBER 4, 2013 County Fare Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 6A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 90/61 Weather forecast 6B 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 Boehner's aboard: Obama gains Syria-strike support WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama gained ground Tuesday in his drive for congressional backing of a military strike against Syria, winning critical support from House Speaker John Boehner while administration officials agreed to explicitly rule out the use of U.S. combat troops in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack. ''You're probably going to win'' Congress' backing, Rand Paul of Kentucky, a conservative senator and likely opponent of the measure, conceded in a lateafternoon exchange with Secretary of State John Kerry. The leader of House Republicans, Boehner emerged from a meeting at the White House and said the United States has ''enemies around the world that need to understand that we're not going to tolerate this type of behavior. We also have allies around the world and allies in the region who also need to know that America will be there and stand up when it's neces- 'There's no problem in our having the language that has zero capacity for American troops on the ground' — Sec. of State John Kerry sary.'' Boehner spoke as lawmakers requested legislation, rewriting it to restrict the type and duration of any military action that would be authorized, possibly including a ban on U.S. combat forces on the ground. A new resolution was written Tuesday by Sens. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., and Bob Corker, RTenn. It could get a vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday. Menendez is the chairman and Corker is the in both parties called for changes in the president's See SYRIA, page 5A Jail funding plan moves on Stories hit the road By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Tehama County is continuing to move forward with a grant proposal to secure funding for a jailhouse expansion. At an Aug. 27 meeting the Board of Supervisors checked off one of the requirements facing them — naming the project. At the suggestion of the county's consultant on the project, they chose a straightforward name — Tehama County Reentry and Day Reporting Center. Chief Administrator Bill Goodwin said the county can always rename the project at a later point, but agreed with the consultant to keep the intent of the project in the working title. The name is just one of several steps that need to be completed before proposals are due to the Board of See JAIL, page 5A Church among burglary victims Daily News photo by Rich Greene The Tehama County Library now offers themed Story Time Boxes featuring books, educational materials and craft ideas. By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer All of the fun of Tehama County Library's preschool storytime is now available to take home in a box. Acting Librarian Sally Ainsworth said for a variety of reasons children often miss out on the library's storytime sessions at the Red Bluff and Corning branches. So she set out to find a way to bring storytime to them. Ainsworth submitted her idea of "Story Hour in a Box" to the California State Library's Pitch an Idea grant program. The state library liked the idea so much it tripled her funding request to $16,000. With the extra grant money the Tehama County Library was able to upgrade its children's section, create a Parenting and Early Childhood Development resource section and create 30 storytime boxes. The colorful boxes contain not just books, but education materials to compliment the reading. The boxes include flash cards, puppets, games, puzzles, flannel boards and craft ideas for hours of fun. Each box is a different theme from the fun of pirates, dragons and wizards to more education-based themes of shapes, colors, outer space and the ocean. The boxes are available for 1week checkouts. The grant included funding to Four felony charges, 60 days A 35-year-old Los Molinos man was arrested for burglary and vehicle theft Saturday, his fourth arrest on felony charges within the past two months. Saturday morning a burglary to a Pacific Farms shop on San Benito Avenue in Gerber was reported, according to a Tehama County Sheriff's Department press release. Someone entered the shop and took several items including a computer. The suspect also took a 2001 GMC pickup truck. The Sheriff's Department was provided video 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 that showed the suspect taking the computer from inside the shop. From the video and other evidence collected at the scene, Steven Dean Woods was identified as the suspect. Deputies later found the stolen truck at the Guardian Angel complex on State Route 99E. Inside the truck was the stolen computer. Around 6 p.m. deputies saw Woods walking along State Route 99E in the Los Molinos area and took him into custody. Woods admitted to taking the truck and the computer and provided deputies with information that led the recovery of other items taken in the See FOUR, page 5A pay for outreach and training of local childcare providers. Ainsworth said there are 109 licensed daycare providers in Tehama County. She said she hopes those groups, which often work with limited budgets, can use the boxes and materials to expand story time to even more children. Storytime at the Red Bluff branch is at 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays and in Corning 10 a.m. on Mondays. For more information about the Story Time Boxes program call 527-0607. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. A burglary at a Red Bluff church was one of several reported over the weekend. Sunday morning Tehama County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to the Calvary Chapel on the 12000 block of Paskenta Road, according to a department press release. A man at the church said sometime between Friday and Sunday someone entered a locked storage building on the property after cutting off a lock. The suspect then reportedly took a 3-burner stainless steel barbecue, a pair of Igloo water containers, multiple EZ Up canopies, caution cones, a 10- by-20-foot green screen tent, a 2-burner stove, four propane tanks, barbecue totes and supplies, a rocking chair, a canvas tarp portable garage and 16 black sand bags. The total loss was estimated at around $2,000. • A burglary was also reported Monday afternoon on the 20000 block of Lopeman. A 44-year-old man reported someone had entered the locked residence sometime between Aug. 11 and Aug. 24. The man said the suspect pulled a doggie door attachment away from a sliding door frame to get into the house. The suspect took a black Springfield XD 9millimeter handgun and an empty 10-round magazine. See CHURCH, page 5A Undocumented Chicoan's bid for law license By HOWARD MINTZ San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO — An illegal immigrant's unprecedented quest to get his California law license will finally get its day in court. After years of waiting, Sergio Garcia, a Chico man who has secured his law degree but not his U.S. citizenship, Wednesday will be at the center of closely watched legal arguments in the California Supreme Court. The justices are considering whether the State Bar can grant an illegal immigrant a card to practice law in California, a question entangled in the fast-moving, complex immigration debate unfolding across the country. The Obama administration, despite publicly supporting the rights of 'It's been four years since I passed the Bar (exam). You only live once and I only have a limited amount of time' — Sergio Garcia immigrants in exactly Garcia's posture, has urged the Supreme Court to deny him a law license — taking the position it would conflict with federal immigration laws. But Garcia has widespread support, including from the State Board of Bar Examiners, Attorney General Kamala Harris, a host of civil rights organizations and dozens of legal scholars who say both state and federal law allow California to license such immigrants. "It's been four years since I passed the Bar (exam)," the 36-year-old Garcia said last week. "You only live once and I only have a limited amount of time." Garcia's pursuit of a law license has attracted nationwide attention, with other states watching the outcome and the prospect of an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. A similar case is unfolding in Florida, where the state Supreme Court there has thus far refused to give a law license to Jose-Godinez Samperio, but there has not been a final ruling. An illegal immigrant and prospective lawyer in New York also filed a brief supporting Garcia in the Supreme Court. Garcia was born in Mexico but spent most of his life, including parts of his youth, in the United States. 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