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FRIDAY OCTOBER 18, 2013 Students Get Trashy Lesson Turn of Fortune Education Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 6A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 83/47 Weather forecast 10A TEHAMA COUNTY 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 Celebrating local Ag Chef Jadda Miller will again be hosting the day long cooking demonstration at the 16th annual Dairyville Orchard Festival, which will be held at Lassen View School in Dairyville from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19. Jadda was born and raised in Red Bluff and is a Dairyville Community Club scholarship recipient. She also received scholarships from the Tehama County Farm Bureau and the Tehama County Cattlewomen's Association. Jadda is studying Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems at UC Davis, where she is also a peer adviser for the major. She will be demonstrating many interesting dishes made primarly from many of the ingredients at the festival including Flat bread with Pacific Suns Bread Dipper; Dairyville Orchard Festival's Fall Salad; Arugula and Walnut Pesto; Apricot Chutney with North Valley Farms Chevre; Dried Apricots and Prunes stuffed with feta and Blue Diamond Almonds; and Mixed Dried Fruit Compote served over vanilla bean ice cream. This past summer Jadda studied documentary filmmaking at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and hopes to apply her filmmaking knowledge towards creating films about agricultural systems throughout the world. She also performed an internship this summer at Hale Akua Farm in Haiku, Maui where she learned about permaculture and tropical plant varieties. Jadda also works with a non-profit called Global Student Embassy. Her project consists of designing a bio-intensive organic garden in Boaco, Nicaragua for a women DAILY 50¢ Lassen Park reopens for visitors DN Staff Report Federally managed recreation lands across northern California were scheduled to be reopened by the weekend following a 2-week closure caused by the government shutdown. Lassen Volcanic National Park will reopen at 8 a.m. Friday after being closed since Oct. 1 due to the government funding shutdown. Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and Black Butte Lake opened Thursday. See PARK, page 9A City mulls issue of leaf burning By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Daily News file photo Chef Jadda Miller delivers a cooking lesson at the 2012 Dairyville Orchard Festival. and children's clinic. Another addition of the festival this year is the Giant Pumpkin Contest sponsored by the Tehama County Farm Bureau. Pumpkins must be brought to Lassen View School before 4 p.m. Friday. Weighing will begin at 4 p.m. and weights announced at 6 p.m. according to Kari Dodd, chairman of the contest and Farm Bureau manager. More information about the contest may be obtained by calling her at the Tehama County Farm Bureau. Prizes will be awarded for each division for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place, as well as one Grand Prize at the awards ceremony at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday at the festival. The festival, which is a great family affair, will have a variety of activities for all ages including the cooking demonstration, the pumpkin contest, an art display by the Red Bluff Art Association, craft and artisan booths, a large display of orchard equipment, agricultural education exhibits, an antique engine exhibit and an Author's Alley, featuring local authors. Many activities will be provided for the children, including a Jump for Joy, face painting, pony rides and a variety of games. Authentic carnitas with rice and beans, tri-tip sandwiches and a delicious Chinese chicken salad will be available for lunch. All proceeds go for local scholarships, which have amounted to $142,000 for the past 15 years for local students. There is no admission charge and, as always, there will be acres of parking behind the school. More information may be obtained at dairyvillefestival.org. The Red Bluff City Council asked city staff at its meeting Tuesday night to bring the issue of residential leaf burning to a future agenda. City Manager Richard Crabtree said would likely bring back a variety of options for the council to consider, including a partial or even outright ban of the practice. The request came after the City Council heard a presentation from Tehama County Air Pollution Control Officer Alan Abbs outlining the department's regulatory processes. While Abbs' presentation was a general overview covering a wide array of burning practices within the county, it was residential leaf burning the council focused on. Councilman Clay Parker said he wanted to see a drafted ordinance banning residential leaf burning come back before council. Abbs explained in his presentation, while his department does not ban leaf burning, that cities and the county can pass more stringent requirements. The one air rule leaf burning may violate is the Nuisance Rule, which bans burns that may cause nuisance or annoyance to any considerable number of persons. But Abbs said once a leaf burn is started there's not much the Air District can do about it. The council, led by Parker said, it has heard a number of residents complaining about neighbors burning leaves. The council informally polled the chamber's opinion on the issue. One woman said she was in favor of a ban. Treasurer Donna Gordy said she had already filled her GreenWaste bin with leaves, but her yard was still covered with leaves. She said the once-aweek pickup of yard waste was not enough for See LEAF, page 9A Court considers school's SERRF shines light on higher education By ANDRE BYIK May 5 US flag ban DN Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday wrestled with the novel question of whether it was offensive for Northern California high school students to display the American flag during a school day dedicated to celebrating Mexican heritage. The three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals didn't tip its hand on how it would decide in sharply questioning lawyers on both sides of the issue during a 30-minute hearing in San Francisco. Public school officials have broad powers to establish dress codes, such as restricting certain colors in clothing or barring the wearing of sports jerseys, in areas where gangs are considered a problem. But the American flag case poses different questions about how far school officials can go in reacting to a potential problem by spontaneously barring what students 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 wear, even if that includes a T-shirt bearing the iconic American flag. ''Dress codes are legal as long as they are content neutral,'' said Eugene Volokh, a University of California, Los Angeles law professor and free speech expert. ''This case is different and has nothing to do with the dress codes.'' Instead, Volokh said the American flag case will turn on whether the administrators overreacted in barring the American flag in the face of a perceived threat of violence. So the question before the court Thursday was whether public school administrators can ban patriotic displays of the American flag on shirts on ''Mexican Heritage Day'' at a campus plagued by violence and racial strife. The administrators at Live Oak High School in Morgan Hill, about 20 miles south of San Jose, said they were concerned that the shirts would lead to violence and verbal altercations. They told the students to turn the shirts inside out See FLAG, page 9A CORNING — A group of Olive View Elementary School students huddled around a table in the school's gym Thursday afternoon, enjoying a game of bingo. "Washington Huskies" was called out, followed by "Arlington Mavericks," and then "Boston College Eagles." "Bingo!" said Kenzy Diehl, a second-grade Olive View student. The Safe Education and Recreation for Rural Families Program, or SERRF, held its 14th annual Lights On event, which showcases the after school program that serves 25 schools in Tehama County. About 130 students from Maywood Middle School and Olive View School donned neon green T-shirts with SERRF's theme for the year written on their backs: Ride the wave to higher education. The festivities at Olive View School took on a carnival-like atmosphere as children played ring toss, bowled, or tossed ping-pong balls into cups of water. The games also took Daily News photo by Andre Byik Alex Silva, a second-grade student at Olive View Elementary School, has his picture taken during a SERRF event Thursday.. on a higher education theme, as universities such as Chico State were featured on the bottles used for ring toss. Indoors, students such as Alex Silva, a secondgrader, could put on graduation gowns and have their picture taken while holding a diploma. Silva said he's got his mind set on college, but he hasn't yet decided on the institution. Linda Dodd, lead facilitator of SERRF at the county's office of education, said the idea is to start preparing children for college or work at an early age. "The assumption is that you are going to college," said Dodd, who was making her rounds at schools across the county that were holding their own Lights On events. Dodd added that SERRF also is transitioning toward being in line with the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a new set of math and English standards that is aiming to better prepare students for college and the work force. "We're on the cutting edge." she said, adding that the county is committed to making college or a career a "when" and not an "if" after students earn their high school diplomas. ——— Andre Byik can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 111.