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WEDNESDAY Grilled Steak SEPTEMBER 18, 2013 New Faces and Portobello County Fare Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 88/57 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 County shuts down 3 illicit pot grows By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The eradication of three illicit marijuana grows was trumpeted at Tuesday's Tehama County Board of Supervisors meeting. Sheriff Dave Hencratt reported 99 marijuana plants and firearms were seized Thursday at a grow in the Red Bank Road area west of Red Bluff. The grow was the focus of complaints during public comment at the Sept. 10 board meeting. Hencratt said CalFire had also cited the location over the weekend. Hencratt confirmed a grow in the Mill Creek area described as a mile long had also recently been eradicated. Supervisor Bob Williams reported an eradication occurred of around 83 plants and an arrest was made at the Rancho Tehama Reserve Friday to a standing ovation of neighbors. More eradications could be on the way. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to hold a special PATH Walk coming Saturday meeting today. Beginning at 1:30 p.m. the board will hear 13 appeals of unlawful marijuana cultivation notices. If found to be out of compliance, growers will have 14 days to abate or get within compliance of the county's marijuana cultivation ordinance. Following the 14 days the county will itemize costs incurred to abate the nuisance and can charge that amount against the property and against each person who is deemed responsible for allowing the unlawful grow to exist. The appeals are for the following properties: • 6994 Horseshoe Drive, Corning • 2170 Houghton Ave., Corning • 627 Santa Maria, Gerber • 33545 Cessna Ave., Paynes Creek • 33584 Ponderosa Way, Paynes Creek • 16690 Elder Creek Circle, Corning • 18918 Piney Lane, Paynes Creek • 18929 Explorer Road, Paynes Creek • 33579 Navion Road, Paynes Creek • 33527 Cessna Ave., Paynes Creek • 18918 Explorer Road, Paynes Creek • 18919 Piney Lane, Paynes Creek • 18936 Explorer Road, Paynes Creek Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.co m. Sutter's Fort coming to RB By DN Staff Report A walk benefiting the Poor and the Homeless Tehama County Coalition is set for 9 a.m. Saturday at Red Bluff River Park. The annual Big Walk is the second biggest fundraiser for PATH, a nonprofit corporation started in 1999. Funds raised will support the nonprofit's two-year transitional housing program and the PATH Safe House, which is a transitional shelter for both single women and women with children. Check-in for the event starts at 9 a.m. at Red Bluff See PATH, page 7A Nonprofit roundtable starts second year At this Friday's meeting of the Tehama County Nonprofit Roundtable, a year of achievement will be recognized and plans will be made for the second year of working cooperatively. Through the Roundtable, some 30 Tehama County nonprofit and faith based organizations have joined forces to share resources and support each other with volunteerism, fundraising, marketing and networking being frequent topics. All local nonprofits are invited to join the Rountable at noon Friday, Sept. 20 at Lariat Bowl, 365 S. Main St., when Mandy Sharp and Mike Baldwin of Tehama County Com- munity Action Agency will provide tips for successful grant writing and information about an upcoming grant writing training program. With National Voter Registration Day being Sept. 24, Bev Ross, Tehama County registrar of voters, will discuss the appropriate role of nonprofits in voter registration drives. Promotional materials from the national organization Nonprofit Vote will be available. Included also on the agenda will be the finalization of plans regarding the roundtable's volunteer recruitment booth planned for the Tehama District Fair. Through a small See SECOND, page 7A Buyers dinner set Good food and fun was had by all at last year's Tehama District Jr. Livestock Buyers Dinner. Once again, it is that time of year. The Jr. Livestock Auction Committee would like to invite all buyers, past, present and future to enjoy a fun filled evening. This year a few changes have been made. The dinner will be held 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 at 6 p.m. Friday Sept. 20 at the Tehama District Fairground, Kerstiens stage and lawn area. Welcoming guests will be directors Tony Welch, Keith Ellis, Tyler Byrd, Bub Ragan, President Mike Collins, Marie Rohr, Bob Chaney, Greg Carter, Larry Rogers, Brian Birt and Charlie Mueller. They will be on hand to answer any questions concerning the sale. Organizers hope all potential buyers can attend this fun event. The See BUYERS, page 7A Courtesy photo SACRAMENTO – The Sutter's Fort Mobile Living History unit will soon hit the road and set up camp in Red Bluff Oct. 1-4 and Colusa Oct. 8-11 as part of an annual effort to bring high quality handson historical interpretation of the exciting and romantic age of the fur trappers to Northern California schools and communities. The camp will be set up in the Mendocino National Forest's Red Bluff Recreation Area at the south end of Sale Lane. The Mobile Living History pro- gram is a cooperative effort between California State Parks, the City of Colusa, Sutter's Fort State Historic Park (SHP) and the U.S. Forest Service. Staffed by a dozen volunteers of Sutter's Fort SHP dressed in period attire, local schools and community members can visit these special campsites that replicate the camps of trapping brigades that John Sutter once sent into the wilderness of the upper Sacramento Valley to make treaties with the Native Americans, and harvest the rich fur and pelt populations of the Sacramento River and its tributaries. The popular Mobile Living History program started in 1983 when a few volunteers from Sutter's Fort SHP became enamored with the lives of the 19th century trappers and aspired to see how closely they could live like real trappers. The resulting mobile unit turned out to be a wonderful way to bring the educational programming of Sutter's Fort SHP to schools and families outside of the Sacramento See FORT, page 7A Media cite 1st Amendment in BLM horse fight RENO, Nev. (AP) — The Reporters Committee on Freedom of the Press says the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is using safety concerns as an excuse to limit media access to wild horse roundups across the West in violation of the First Amendment. The National Press Photographers Association and more than a dozen newspaper companies joined the committee in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals late Monday to back an advocacy group waging a series of legal battles over mustang roundups in Nevada. Horseback Magazine photographer Laura Leigh and others ''have a right to see what happens'' during the roundups, the media groups said, urging the court to be ''highly skeptical of assertions by the BLM that restrictions placed on media access were done for administrative convenience and/or to satisfy safety concerns.'' ''People in an open society do not demand infallibility from their institutions, but it is difficult for them to accept what they are prohibited from observing,'' they said. The 9th Circuit sent the case brought by Leigh's advocacy group, Wild Horse Education, back to U.S. Judge Larry Hicks in Reno last year to determine if the BLM limits are constitutional. Hicks ruled in 2011 that a balancing of the interests of the agency and public access to a roundup in Nevada didn't warrant granting an injunction to block the gathers. But a three-judge panel of the appellate court ruled he failed to determine whether those restrictions violated First Amendment protections. ''When the government announces it is excluding the press for reasons such as administrative convenience, preservation of evidence, or protection of reporters' safety, its real motive may be to prevent the gathering of information about government abuses or incompetence,'' Appellate Judge Milan Smith Jr. wrote in the 18-page opinion in February 2012. BLM spokesman Tom Gorey said Tuesday that the agency had no comment on the latest filing. Agency officials testified at a hearing earlier this year that they do their best to provide public access to the roundups and temporary holding of the animals and denied Leigh's claims she was singled out to be kept away from the mustangs. The National Press Club, Nevada Press Association, Reno-Gazette Journal, The Seattle Times Company, the Las Vegas-Review Journal's owner Stephens Media and others joined in the new brief arguing that journalists routinely face far more dangerous assignments, especially at war. They say reporters should have the same unrestricted access to public rangeland as they do to battlefields. BLM's concerns are ''speculative at best and at worst are overly broad and ambiguous, often arbitrarily and capriciously chilling visual journalists' ability to cover matters of public concern,'' See HORSE, page 7A Smog Inspection $ 2595 +$825 certificate (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) • Members Welcome 530 527-9841 195 S. Main St., Red Bluff