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ART Continued from page 1A None of that experience, however, included science fiction. Rules for this year’s contest required entries to include some form of machinery to fit in with the “Magnificent Machines” theme. Younger children were encouraged to draw robots and did so in droves. Others created gum ball machines, motorcycles, trucks and alien equipment designed for alien purposes. Cosentino’s solution was to look to Christina Aguil- era’s “Bionic” album, she said. The album cover shows Aguilera as a cyborg, her face split down the middle to reveal circuits, tubes, speakers and discs. Cosentino used the same idea by applying her por- trait-drawing skills to one half of the painting and stretching her skills to portray cogs and gears in what would have been the other half of her subject’s face. The robotic result took Cosentino by surprise — and the highest award the show can offer, an oversized check for $50. Other winners included: Division I 1st Wesley Lindaur Hambright - Gerber School 2nd Kaylee Roach - Reeds Creek School 3rd Benjamin Penner - Reeds Creek School Honorable Mention: Lealoni - Metteer School Honorable Mention: Makala - Metteer School Division II 1st Shane Rhodes - Sacred Heart Parish School 2nd Allie Adams - Reeds Creek School 3rd Valeria Garnica - Los Molinos Elementary School Parish School Honorable Mention: Raveena Nagra - Sacred Heart Honorable Mention: Nash Riberal-Norton - Sacred Heart Parish School Division III 1st Kensie Roach - Reeds Creek School 2nd William Blackford - Reeds Creek School 3rd Connor Browning - Reeds Creek School Honorable Mention: Maryn Spangler - Bend School Honorable Mention: Jake Penner - Reeds Creek School Division IV 1st Gina Cosentino - Red Bluff Union High School 2nd Andrew Hopper – Escholar Academy 3rd Andrea Hueem - Red Bluff Union High School Honorable Mention: Robert Puglisi - Red Bluff Union High School Honorable Mention: Erik Vail - Red Bluff Union High School Best of Show Gina Cosentino - Red Bluff Union High School ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailynews.com. FIRE Continued from page 1A connected from the house but local children and squatters frequented the area. The damage could have been prevented or less- GAS Continued from page 1A among cities surveyed at $2.51 a gallon for regular. San Francisco was highest among surveyed cities at $3.08. Diesel was at $3.09, up nearly ten cents. In California, the average price for a gallon of regu- lar was $3.02. With San Francisco the highest, Fresno had the state’s least expensive gas at $2.95 a gallon. CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. ened if the dry grass around the building had been cleared, Hebrard said. “Even though it rained, it’s not quite enough water yet,” he said. No further information was available Saturday. —Geoff Johnson FREE Continued from page 1A festival, teaching them the importance of teamwork. “We all work together for a common goal,” she said. CITY Continued from page 1A The Downtown Streets Rehabilita- tion Project should be completed by mid-December and is funded by Proposition 1B funds. The award is about $7,000 less than what had been budgeted for the project. • Computer Logistics, which worked with the city more than 5 years ago, will return as the city’s IT Meanwhile the Health Monday, October 11, 2010 – Daily News – 7A neered the cast exhibit. Spree offered something for children, too. Curious students could climb into a real life St. Elizabeth ambulance or get a real cast put on their arm — which is just what 3-year-old Adrian Quin- tana of Dairyville, dressed in a Superman costume, did. The idea was to famil- iarize children with aspects of health care and make them less scary when they need them, said Dr. Eric Rudnik, who pio- services provider under a $48,000 contract. Computer Logistics’ bid was $12,000 less than current provider Apex’s. • The police department will receive a $263,391 grant from the COPS Hiring Recovery Program. The money will be used to fund the base salary of a police officer for a three-year period. The officer will replace one of four officers slated to leave the department by year’s end. • The council denied a request to waive $1,050 in fines incurred by Because even Super- man can take a tumble. ——— Geoff Johnson can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or gjohnson@redbluffdailyn ews.com. Wells Fargo Bank for not keeping the lawn at the former Red Bluff Ford building up to code despite the lawn now being cared for. • The council adopted a position in support of Proposition 22. The measure, which will be decided by voters in the Nov. 2 election, would prohibit the state from taking local government funds. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527- 2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.com. Oktoberfest draws a good crowd Daily News photo by Geoff Johnson Members of the Redding Folk Dancers joined the Oktoberfest celebration Saturday night at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Jefferson Street in Red Bluff. Around 175 people attended the first-time event, which included dinner and a street dance. Schwarzenegger heads to Russia SACRAMENTO (AP) — With California’s long overdue budget finally signed, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was departing Saturday on a trade mission to Russia with a delegation of Silicon Valley busi- ness leaders and venture capitalists in tow. Schwarzenegger’s office said the five-day trip is meant to connect Silicon Valley’s business leaders and venture capi- talists with their Russian counterparts, who hope to start a similar technol- ogy hub in the Russian city of Skolkovo. The mission stems from Schwarzenegger’s meeting in June with Russian Federation Pres- ident Dmitry Medvedev, who met with the gover- nor in Silicon Valley to talk about Russia’s efforts to boost technolo- gy. ‘‘There is no one that is better equipped to help them and to sell their goods and their knowl- edge and to invest than California, ’ ’ Schwarzenegger told reporters Friday. ‘‘And so we are going to be in there, the first ones in and we’re going to be very aggressive to help them with that.’’ The governor said Russia’s decision to emulate Silicon Valley also gives California companies an opportuni- ty to expand into the eastern European mar- ket, particularly in the field of green technolo- gy. Officials from Internet search engine Google Inc., software-makers Oracle Corp. and Microsoft Corp., biotechnology company Amgen Inc. and fuel-cell technology startup Bloom Energy are among those accompa- nying Schwarzenegger overseas. Schwarzenegger faced criticism for his week- long trade mission last month to China, Japan and South Korea, which came in the midst of a monthslong deadlock over solutions to address California’s $19 billion shortfall. Schwarzene gger signed a new budget into law Friday after it passed both houses of the state Legislature. It came 100 days into the start of the fiscal year. After they visit Rus- sia, the delegation will also stop in London, where the governor will meet with British Prime Minister David Cameron and visit with British troops. The governor has also visited Canada, Chile, Israel, Jordan, Hong Kong and Germany since taking office in 2003. LAKE OF THE PINES, Calif. (AP) — A paraglider is OK after a dangerous encounter with high- voltage power lines. A spokesman for the Califor- nia Department of Forestry and Fire says after taking off from a field in the Sierra foothills around 4 p.m. Saturday, the female paraglider and her machine became entangled in Paraglider OK after encounter with power lines Berlant described the machine power lines. Spokesman Daniel Berlant says the woman spent about two hours about 20 feet off the ground trapped in the aircraft before work crews could shut the power off and firefighters could rescue the woman. Berlant says because none of the metal parts of the machine came in contact with the power review of public records shows the watchdog agency responsible for regulating public utilities has taken a mostly hands-off approach to violations by Pacific Gas and Electric Co. Even though PG&E had more pipeline infractions than the rest of the state’s major pipelines com- bined over a six-year period, The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the California Public Utilities Commission did not levy a single fine on the utility during that peri- od. The newspaper reports in an article in its Sunday edition that its review of CPUC records between 2004 and 2009, PG&E accounted for 410 of the probable violations of federal safety laws found by regulators. By comparison, all other utili- ties accounted for 287 of the prob- able violations. PG&E operates 42 percent of the gas pipelines in the state. The report comes after word that the CPUC is forming a panel to conduct a review of the PG&E pipeline blast in San Bruno last month that killed eight people. Richard Clark, head of the Consumer Projection and Safety Report: No fines on PG&E over six years ‘We find a SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A violation, we tell them to fix it. Unless its a real egregious violation’ Richard Clark, CPUC Division of the CPUC, told the newspaper that the industry has a history of fixing problems volun- tarily. ‘‘We operate under the assump- tion they are interested in having a safely operated system,’’ Clark told the Chronicle. ‘‘If we saw a trend that gave us concerns in terms of what we are finding out there, we would take enforcement action,’’ he said. It’s been least seven years since the CPUC fined PG&E or any other utility operating a gas pipeline in the state, according to Clark. According to the Chronicle, self-policing is almost a necessity because the commission has just lines, the paraglider was able to escape injury. as a ‘‘go-kart with wings on the side of it.’’ The name of the woman was not released. The incident took place near Lake of the Pines, a community about 45 miles northeast of Sacramento. nine inspectors to monitor 100,000 miles of gas pipelines running through California. Kirk Johnson, vice president of gas transmission and distribution for PG&E, said the utility often reports safety problems to the commission on its own. ‘‘We don’t see problems that warrant the level of enforcement actions,’’ Clark said. ‘‘We don’t see it. This is an anomalous event that took place in San Bruno,’’ he added. Instead of fining pipeline oper- ators over violations, the CPUC sends them a letter asking the companies to comply with federal safety regulations. ‘‘We find a violation, we tell them to fix it,’’ Clark said. ‘‘Unless its a real egregious viola- tion,’’ he added. Clark could not recall any such violation. In a response to the article, PG&E spokesman Andrew Sou- vall told the Associated Press the ‘‘safety of the our natural gas sys- tem is our top priority.’’ ‘‘We are very conservative deciding what are reportable inci- dents,’’ Souvall said. ‘‘In fact we often self- report things we have already fixed,’’ he told the AP. Red Bluff Community Center 1500 So. 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