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TUESDAY OCTOBER 5, 2010 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com Soup and Smiles See Inside American Profile RED BLUFF Who needs superstars? Sports 1B Mostly sunny 80/57 Weather forecast 8B 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 Back in the saddle Police seek burglar By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Police are one step closer to finding a robber who has been targeting businesses and schools since Aug. 30, but still need the public’s help in solving the case. Last week, the Red Bluff Police Department announced it was pursuing a suspect believed to have committed 26 burglaries between Aug. 30 and Sept. 30. Since then, seven more burglaries have been reported. Footage the police department obtained from a recent heist at the Sara Lee Bakery store on Madi- son Street shows the burglar carrying a metal bar, which police believe he used to break in. Based on that footage, the suspect is described as a white, male in his late teens to mid-20s of thin See SEEK, page 7A Stolen ticket money used to buy tickets Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Stacey Spangler, riding Wata Frosted Gold, a 14-year-old Palomino she is bringing with her to compete in Project Cowboy Oct. 8-10 in Fort Worth,Texas. Cowgirl overcomes spinal cord surgery By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer On Sunday, Stacey Spangler and Lin Matthews left Tehama County to start an almost 1,500-mile trip to Fort Worth, Texas where Spangler will compete in the Project Cowboy. The chance to compete in the three- day event taking place Oct. 8-10, is a culmination of about thirty years of work for Spangler who has been out of competition for almost two and a half years following a spinal cord surgery to remove a tumor. “This is a pretty big deal,” Spangler said. “It’s by the grace of God that I got back up (and into competing again as a trainer).” Project Cowboy, only Spangler’s second competition since coming back from surgery, is a competition open to all horsemen who demonstrate excep- tional horsemanship, communication skills and live by the western lifestyle and is produced by Tootie Bland Pro- ductions and Patti Colberty Enterpris- es. “Project Cowboy is a talent search looking for the individual that com- bines great horsemanship skills with a personality that can connect with an audience on television or in a clinic set- ting,” said Patti Colbert in a press release. Spangler will be competing for a $10,000 cash prize, a Martin trophy saddle, a Gist trophy buckle and an invitation to participate in the 2011 Road the Horse Legends World Cham- pionship, 2011 Extreme Mustang Makeover Events and other major equine events and expose as a clinician. She also competes for the title “the Great American Horseman.” Spangler, who competed in the 2008 Extreme Mustang Makeover having to have surgery, competed in High court upholds governor’s furloughs SACRAMENTO (AP) — The California Supreme Court’s ruling Monday upholding Gov. employees. Schwarzenegger said the Arnold Schwarzenegger’s order to furlough state workers ends an 18-month budget distrac- tion and puts more pressure on public employee unions to negotiate benefit roll- backs with the administra- tion. The high court handed the governor a unanimous decision, saying he could force employees to take unpaid leave because the state Legislature gave him that authority when it approved the 2009 budget bill. Legislative leaders are now pushing the unions to accept concessions on pen- sion and other benefits as part of a 2010 budget agree- ment scheduled for a vote by lawmakers as soon as Thursday. Schwarzenegger has demanded the concessions as a condition of signing the budget aimed at closing a $19 billion deficit. Schwarzenegger imple- mented the two-day-a- month furloughs for more than 200,000 state workers in February 2009. He later expanded it to three days a month, which has translated to a pay cut of roughly 14 percent for government move was intended to save money as California faced a severe budget crisis. His order prompted the filing of more than two dozen law- suits. ‘‘As governor, I have had to make very difficult deci- sions in response to the worldwide economic col- lapse, including furloughs for state workers and line- item vetoes to balance our budget,’’ Schwarzenegger, a Republican, said in a state- ment after the court rulings. ‘‘These decisions were absolutely necessary to keep our state functioning.’’ In another ruling Mon- day, the state Supreme Court also said Schwarzenegger had the authority to use his line-item veto power to cut $489 million from last year’s state budget. The administration esti- mates furloughs saved the state’s general fund $1.5 bil- lion during the previous two fiscal years and an addition- al $80 million a month in the fiscal year that began July 1, said H.D. Palmer, spokesman for the gover- nor’s Department of Finance. Bruce Blanning, execu- tive director of the Profes- sional Engineers in Califor- nia Government, one of the plaintiffs, said he was disap- pointed by the state Supreme Court ruling. ‘‘Obviously, we had hoped for a better outcome,’’ 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See COURT, page 7A June in the Help Rescue Me Trainer’s Challenge at Cal Expo in Sacramento where she was given 70 days to train a three-strikes mustang and 2-year-old filly. Spangler, who has been training horses professionally for 30 years, manages Broken Oaks Boarding Sta- ble in Gerber owned by Mathews. Spangler also owns her own business, SNS Ranch Spangler Training. The road to competition has been difficult and Spangler. She said she is grateful for her spon- sors Chaffhaye, Redmond Rock, Supe- rior Barns and I-5 Tire, who have helped her with the costs to compete. “Everything just fell into place (at the last minute),” Spangler said. “It’s the story of my life. Things always get together at the last minute.” Her application was due Sept. 1 and she received the last of the necessary See BACK, page 7A A would-be spectator ruined her chance of enjoying the West Coast Monster Trucks Nationals after she tried to take money from the show’s promoters. Around 2:25 p.m., Sat- urday, Donna Marie Walling, 39, of Riverside went to the Red Bluff- Tehama County Chamber of Commerce to buy tick- ets for the monster trucks show. While the employee who was helping her went into the back room, Walling tried to grab a bag of money containing pro- ceeds from ticket sales. The employee returned and confronted Walling, who dropped the bag of money and took off in a maroon Nissan Quest, said Red Bluff Police Sgt. Dan Flowerdew. Half an hour later, Walling was arrested at the Tehama Walling District Fairgrounds as she attempted to buy tickets with money that was believed to have been taken from the cham- ber. About $700 was stolen and recovered at the time of the arrest, Flowerdew said. Walling was booked into Tehama County Jail for alleged attempted grand theft. Bail is set at $10,000. — Staff report Local corpsmember on Australian exchange Special to the DN Members of the Cali- fornia Conservation Corps are taking what they learn here to improve other areas of the world. In August nine corpsmembers got the opportunity to partici- pate in the Conservation Volunteers Australia exchange program. Among the partici- pants is Jacque Duran, a 2002 Salisbury High School graduate, who has been working with the California Conserva- tion Corps on restoration projects at the Fortuna Center in Humboldt County. “The most memorable experience would have to be the hike up to Bish- op and Clerk, on Maria Island,” Duran writes in an e-mail from Aus- tralia. “The view from up top is breath taking. You can see so much. This place is wonderful, the people are great and I don’t ever want to leave.” The exchange pro- gram is an eight-week adventure during which members perform much of the same work they would do in California. Corpsmembers work on a variety of natural resource projects, including trail construc- tion, invasive plant removal and wildlife habitat improvement. While the trip started on Tasmania Island, the See LOCAL, page 7A Courtesy photo Jacque Duran works on a restoration project through replanting natives in the city of Hobart on Maria Island. Daily News Saturday print delivery will be late due to football coverage …but now you can read the Saturday paper online after 8:00 am Saturday mornings www.redbluffdailynews.com Click on Digital Edition ARTHRITIS, AND POST SURGERY. DR. SWAIM’S PAIN CREAM NOW AVAILABLE IN OUR OFFICE AT 2530 SR MARY COLUMBA DR. RED BLUFF, CA 96080 (530) 527-7584 STOP THE PAIN FROM NEUROPATHY, SHINGLES, COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR Smog Inspection $ 2995 + cert. 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