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WEDNESDAY Cauliflower League Clinched Three Ways OCTOBER 9, 2013 County Fare Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 3B SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Mostly sunny 73/52 Weather forecast 10A 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 $1.5 million grant for LosMo drainage Giving a LIFT By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer LOS MOLINOS – Tehama County has been awarded a $1.5 million Community Development Block Grant that will be used for storm drain and flood improvements in Los Molinos. The grant will pay for another step in the The Los Molinos Storm Drainage Project, which began with a study in 2007. Since then storm drainage improvements were installed as part of the State Route 99E construction project, which provided an appropriately sized storm drain main line collection facility. The CalTrans project included the installation of underground facilities from Orange Street north to Tehama-Vina Road. The block grant will pay for the first of a 3-phase project focusing on residential areas in Los Molinos. Los Molinos was built with a limited infrastructure to collect and discharge excess storm water, which often leads to the city being flooded by runoff from the See GRANT, page 9A Jail captain to retire after long career By RICH GREENE DN file photo Claudia Jensen, a licensed manicurist from Red Bluff, provides a pedicure during the 2012 LIFT Tehama event at the Tehama District Fairground. Following a successful inaugural year, LIFT Tehama is growing, expanding, and bursting at the seams with agencies, programs and ministries waiting to give a hand, offer help and provide hope to anyone in need. The event running from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Tehama District Fairground is the product of several great services and agencies combining resources in order to create LIFT (Live Inspired For Tomorrow) Tehama: A one day empowerment event connecting people in need to vital services. LIFT Tehama will take place, rain or shine, on Friday, Nov. 15. This free event kicks off with Project Homeless Connect, now in it's fourth year, followed by Recycle The Warmth, a project that has been serving Tehama County for almost 30 years. The schedule will be as follows: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Project Homeless Connect 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. — Health and Medical Services 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. — Recycle The Warmth Noon to 1 p.m. — Break for lunch TRAX will be offering free transportation during this event to anyone wishing to attend. To prepare for the event, organizers are asking the community to help by donating these basic items — socks, towels and backpacks along with items for a Hygiene Kit, such as trial size shampoos, conditioners, lotions, razors, etc. Items can be dropped off in the Red Donations Barrel in the front office of the Daily News, 545 Diamond Ave., Red Bluff, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Other locations to be announced. One of the services planned will be a sock exchange in which used socks can be exchanged for clean, new ones. Homelessness creates a need for other vital services such as information and resources regarding when and where to obtain showers and wash clothes on a fairly regular basis. Showers will be available during Project Homeless Connect. Towels and hygiene products will be needed to complete individual shower kits which will also include cards containing addresses and times free showers and washing machines will be available. Constant mobility creates a continual need for backpacks. Recycle The Warmth will be collecting blankets as usual at the Daily News. Besides showers, clothing and food, LIFT Tehama will be offering vital services such as DMV IDs, birth certificates, Social Security help, housing and social services as well as medical and dental care, pet services, haircuts and a host of other services. LIFT Tehama will be incorporating the principals of Project Homeless Connect: Not business as usual, no waiting in line, hospitality from the whole community, immediate See LIFT, page 9A AB-109, was put in to effect after Rabalais DN Staff took over. Writer Sheriff Dave HenWhen Capcratt, who was tain Danny Rabalais' Rabalais training offimoved to cer when he Tehama Counmoved from ty he didn't Orange to know what a T e h a m a walnut looked Rabalais County in like. Twenty-one years 1992, said Rabalais later, Rabalais has turned out to be the right entrenched himself into guy at the right time to the local community – handle the difficulties of even if he still has diffi- AB-109. Rabalais will have culty determining the spent 21 years with gender of livestock. Rabalais was lauded Tehama County when he by the Tehama County retires Nov. 1. He called the end of Board of Supervisors Tuesday, less than a his law enforcement month out from his for- career bittersweet, but mal retirement from the had only positive things Tehama County Sheriff's to say of the community he now calls home. Department. "Moving to Tehama A 30-year law enforcement veteran Rabalais County is the best thing was the department's we've ever done," he said. Rabalais will likely be operations administrator, before being transferred kept busy despite his three years ago to oversee retirement from the sheriff's department. the Tehama County Jail. Along with wife, That assignment proved to be more diffi- Dianne, Rabalais runs a cult when the state's successful photography prison realignment plan, studio. 1850s Horseshoe Calif. exchange processes 16,000 applications 'These are big Tourney at Ide numbers, and Adobe park they're proof of Horseshoe pitchers will be making a unique kind of sports history starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, at Ide Adobe State Park in Red Bluff. Sports and history will mingle in the 31st annual Adobe Ferry Champion Horseshoe Pitchers Contest. The double–elimination doubles tournament is sponsored by the Ide Adobe Interpretive Association and California State Parks. "Horseshoe pitching was very big during the 1850s, and we plan to recapture some of the excitement of a Gold Rush era pitchers contest," said Judy Fessenden, Ide Adobe Inter- 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 pretive Association president. "The rules of the 1850s will be used and equipment and courts will be based on that time period. All players will be wearing 1850s attire and the champions will be awarded gold–filled pocket watches. Runners–up will receive a pair of 1850s horseshoes. It is not too late to participate. National Horseshoe Pitchers Association rules will not be used. All participants will be required to wear the 1850s clothing that will be provided by the park. Pitching teams may bring along spectators who are willing to dress in period attire and cheer them on. The entry fee is $16 per team and each team member must become a member in the Ide Adobe See ADOBE, page 9A SACRAMENTO (AP) — Officials with California's health insurance exchange said Tuesday that more than 16,300 applications were processed during the marketplace's first five days of operation, but they did not say how many people actually purchased coverage for 2014. Covered California officials released the figure in the first of what they say will be a series of weekly updates on the number of applications and calls received by the insurance exchange. An additional 27,300 California households have started to fill out an application. Applications can cover more than one person, such as a spouse or child. Covered California executive director Peter Lee described the initial interest in the new health coverage as ''phenomenal.'' ''These are big numbers, and they're proof of the pent-up demand for coverage that is here in California and is also across the nation,'' he told reporters during a news conference. State exchange officials had anticipated ''very low'' enrollment during the first week, but did not have an internal projection for how many applications they might initially receive, Lee said. It's difficult to fit the number released Tuesday into a broader the pent-up demand for coverage that is here in California and is also across the nation' — Peter Lee, Covered California context because the exchange, set up under the federal Affordable Care Act, is new and because consumers have until March 31 to sign up for coverage in 2014. By comparison, 15,000 applications were completed by Monday in Kentucky, a state with a population that is less than 12 percent of California's. Almost half of those applicants went on to buy an insurance plan, according to the Kentucky governor's office. The 16,311 applications completed in California through Saturday were processed to determine whether the consumer is eligible for federal subsidies to decrease their monthly costs or to enroll in the state's low-income insurance program known as Medi-Cal. Applicants are not officially enrolled until they have selected a health plan and paid their portion of the premium. Covered California officials said they will not release the number of applicants who have taken those steps until monthly enrollment reports begin in November. Tuesday's update came as the federally run exchanges remain hampered by technical problems that are slowing the enrollment process. Call centers supporting California's insurance exchange handled more than 59,000 telephone inquiries in the days after the Oct. 1 opening of the marketplaces, Lee said. Wait times that reached 40 minutes were reduced to less than four by Friday, he said, adding that officials are aiming for wait times of less than 30 seconds. The exchange website received more than 987,000 unique visitors See EXCHANGE, page 9A