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THURSDAY OCTOBER 28, 2010 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Below RED BLUFF Los Molinos Homecoming Giants, Rangers SPORTS 1B likely Weather forecast 8A Rain 61/46 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 Truck, tools go missing from fairgrounds A maintenance worker show- ing up for work Wednesday morn- ing at the Tehama District Fair- ground was in for a surprise when he discovered the shop had been broken into. “At 6:45 a.m. the first mainte- nance man to come to work noticed the front gate open and he assumed that someone was ahead of him until he got to the shop and the door there was open as well as the pickup was gone,” said Fair CEO Mark Eidman. In addition to the shop pickup, all of the hand tools, chainsaws, weed eaters and power tools were missing, he said. “It’s a little hard to do our job without a pickup or tools,” Eid- ‘It’s a little hard to do our job without a pickup or tools’ Fair CEO Mark Eidman man said. “At this point we have no hand tools, no power tools, no At your service weed eaters, no power washers, no chainsaw so it’s very frustrating to say the least. The loss of the pick- up, a 1993 Dodge with a rack on the back, and the tools is going to be over $5,000.” Locks were missing at the front gate, shop gate and front and back of the shop, Eidman said. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the matter and See TRUCK, page 7A Migrant camp draws critics; vote pushed back By GEOFF JOHNSON DN Staff Writer A vote on a proposed Corning migrant labor camp was pushed back Oct. 19 by the Board of Supervisors and has yet to be held as of Wednesday. The controversial 140-person migrant camp in Corn- Courtesy photo Pictured, from left, back row, are Vern Sorenson, Marilyn Sanford, Jim Keaton, Marissa Bathgate,Tom Orr, Ron Clark, Ron Pitts and Salvador Gonzalez. Front row, Isabel Meraz,Trish Karnes. Special to the DN Fourteen providers of excellent customer service were honored at the Tehama County Employer Advisory Council Meeting Thurs- day, Oct. 4, in conjunction with National Customer Service Week. An annual event celebrated each year by the Job Training Center, month-long activities include a bootcamp training provided to busi- nesses at their sites and secret shop- ping awards given for outstanding service caught in the act by a team of secret shoppers. This year’s honored businesses include a dentist, butcher, several clerks, college dean, chef, mechan- Wells Fargo erred in thousands of foreclosures WASHINGTON (AP) — Wells Fargo admitted Wednesday it made mis- takes in the paperwork for thousands of foreclosure cases and promised to fix them. The San Francisco- based bank said it plans to refile documents in 55,000 of the cases by mid- November. The company said not all those cases included errors but didn’t say how many thousands did. Wells Fargo described the mistakes as technical and said it has no plans to halt the foreclosure process, though filing new paperwork will cause some delays. ‘‘We don’t believe that there are instances in which the foreclosures would not have occurred otherwise,’’ said Teri Schrettenbrunner, a Wells Fargo spokes- woman. The documents are being refiled in the 23 states where a judge’s approval is needed to com- plete a foreclosure. Wells Fargo & Co.’s CEO, John Stumpf, has declined to join Bank of America Corp., Ally Financial Inc.’s GMAC Mortgage and other banks in suspending foreclosures because of flawed paper- work that surfaced at sever- al large banks. On a conference call with investors this month, Stumpf said the bank is ‘‘confident that our prac- tices, procedures and docu- mentation’’ are accurate. Depositions of two Wells Fargo employees have called the company’s foreclosure practices into question. A Fort Mill, S.C.- based Wells employee said in a deposition taken last March that she signed between 300 and 500 fore- closure documents per day, In another deposition taken in May, another Wells employee said he verified only the dates on up to 150 foreclosure docu- ments he signed daily and relied on co-workers to ensure that other informa- tion was correct. Bank of America is See ERRED, page 7A 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 POWER PRODUCTS DOLMAR Red Bluff Outdoor Power ic, hostess and cook identified in Corning, Los Molinos, Red Bluff and Dairyville. “Everyone has a customer,” said Kathy Garcia, business services manager of the Job Training Center. “Whether you work in front of the public or behind the scenes, you See SERVICE, page 7A ing’s Squaw Hill neighborhood had its vote pushed back by supervisors at the request of its applicants. The application was tooled and retooled for the Planning Commission for more than a year before the commission deadlocked in a 2-2 vote, pushing it to the Board of Supervisors. Landowner Angelo Ferro, Orchard Manager Chris Henderson and olive growers expected to support the project were too busy with the olive season to attend the Oct. 19 meeting. Applicants asked the board to consid- er their proposal at a later date, supervisors said. Because they canceled days before the meeting, too late to take the item off the agenda, supervisors still held a public hearing for those in attendance. As in previous meetings, testimony weighed heavily against the project. Neighbor complaints were broad and far-reaching, touching on everything from the pos- sibility an alcohol ban at the camp would lead to drunk driving to the question of whether the living conditions at the camp were up to federal standards and provided enough bathrooms and sinks. One resident invoked the fear of increased tubercu- losis, hepatitis, cholera and malaria in the neighbor- hood. Another, LeRose Lane, said 140 people on half-acre of land was too crowded. “As far as I’m concerned, the conditions are inhu- mane,” she said. Lane said on-site catering would not prevent the workers from leaving the camp and adding to traffic. Workers “will go into town for tacos, burritos, what- See CAMP, page 7A LMHS celebrates Homecoming Special to the DN Monday kicked off the week-long Homecoming festivities at Los Molinos High School. The Bull- dogs are celebrating their 93rd year with the theme, “Bulldogs Aren’t Sweet on the Wolverines.” Spirit Week will be full of fun and will lead to the Friday JV and Varsity games against the Biggs Wolverines. The Float Parade will kick off at 7 p.m., usher- ing in the Royal Court and the Homecoming King and Queen hopefuls. The Royal Court includes Freshman Prince Austin “AJ” Long, son of Dyan Salado and Jeff Long of Corning and Princess Kaitlyn Seaman, daughter of Clay and Rhonda Sea- man of Los Molinos; Sophomore Prince Andrew Surtees, son of John and Jolene Surtees of Gerber and Princess Haylee Waelty, daughter of Tammie Lopez and Bryon Waelty of Tehama; Junior class Prince Reggie Points, son of Jason and Mica Points and Princess Sasha LaMerrill, daughter of Diane LaMerrill and William Harrison, all of Los Molinos. The 2010 Senior King and Queen will be crowned at the halftime ceremony. Hopeful candidates for Queen include Briselda See LMHS, page 7A Courtesy photo The 2010 Los Molinos High Homecoming Court and King and Queen nominees, from left, are Queen candidates Nicola Quirke, Jessi Southworth, Sophomore Princess Haylee Waelty, Queen Candidate Briselda Castillo, Freshman Class Princess Kaitlyn Seaman and Junior Class Princess Sasha LaMerrill. Back row, are King candidate Adrian Hernandez, Sophomore Prince Andrew Surtees, Junior Prince Reggie Points, King candidates Christian Smith, Chris Butler and Freshman Prince AJ Long. Homecoming week runs through Friday.The Bulldogs will be taking on the Biggs Wolverines. 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 Your Business, A Look Inside Five Areas to Assess Your Business for Future Growth Featuring Ryne Johnson of The Chico Project Wednesday, November 3, 2010 2-5pm • Red Bluff Community Center Cost: $45 per person To register: call 529-7000 or visit www.jobtrainingcenter.org.