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WEDNESDAY Business OCTOBER 23, 2013 Timmy Re-signs Women's Week Special Section Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Inside SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 85/49 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 Toward jail expansion Pedestrian knocked off bridge in crash Daily News photo by Andre Byik Courtesy photo By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The Tehama County Board of Supervisors accepted a Local Adult Detention Facility Needs Assessment Study Tuesday, the next step in a $20 million grant proposal to expand the county's jail. County staff estimates the new facility, which will expand the jail and centralize other aspects of Tehama County's criminal justice system, including a new day reporting center, will cost $21,963,500. The maximum grant award under the SB-1022 Construction of Adult Local Criminal Justice Facilities program is $20 million. The county's proposed $1,963,500 match will include $865,000 in-kind contributions, including $400,000 of site acquisition costs associated with utilizing the existing Tehama County Library site. County staff estimates the new facility will cost around $2 million per year to operate. The needs assessment study was completed by a consulting team including the Criminal Justice Research Foundation, Lionakis Architects and Vanir Inc. The county paid Lionakis $99,540 for the study, a requirement to receive SB-1022 funding. The study was paid for out of the county's share of AB-109 prison realignment funds. The jail, which was built in 1977 with a major addition in 1994, is rated for a capacity of 191 inmates and houses pretrial and sentenced offenders. According to the study, the Jail will be 64 beds short in 2014 with the full impact of AB-109 not reaching Tehama County Jail until June 2015. Even if a new facility was built, with rising population trends, the Tehama County Jail would be 15 beds short by 2018. By 2032 the Oil maker to open Napa store Lucero Olive Oil is pleased to announce the grand opening of its new tasting room in downtown Napa. Friends, families and fans of olive oil are invited to the downtown Napa tasting room Saturday, Oct. 26 for the Grand Opening of Lucero's new store where an expansive selection of olive oils, vinegars, tapenades, mustards and table olives will be offered. The ribbon cutting is at 10 a.m. with the doors opening following the ceremonies. Patrons are encouraged to come early because the first 100 people will receive a 50ML bottle of Lucero's Extra Virgin Olive Oil with purchase. The festivities will continue on Oct. 27 from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Visit the tasting room throughout the weekend to meet the founder of Lucero Olive Oil, Dewey Lucero, experience Lucero's famous olive oil ice cream sundaes and shop numerous grand opening specials. Lucero Olive Oil is a product of three-generations of olive growers nestled in Corning, "The Olive Capital," which has some of the oldest olive trees in California, and many of these century-old trees continue to flourish in the family's groves. Lucero takes pride in their family built operation that produces North America's most awarded extra virgin olive oils from their family groves, just minutes away from the Lucero Mill. Lucero's new Tasting Room is at 1012 First St. in Napa, on the corner of First and Main streets. The business hours are 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday through Saturday. study estimates the combined facility would be 72 beds short. The study recommends the county increase the use of a Release On Own Recognizance program. It's research found that the vast majority of defendants who are released return for all court appearances and that those released on their own recognizance are just as effective as financial forms of release. It found many non-appearances were due to system problems or factors other than the defendant. The study included a physical assessment of the jail. Outside of the structure itself the jail received a rating of inadequate or lower for space, HVAC, plumbing, electrical and lightning, noise control, fire safety, ADA compliance and security. Rich Greene can be reached at 527-2151, ext. 109 or rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com. California Highway Patrol officer Albert Franks investigates the scene of a hit-andrun accident on Aramayo Way that sent a pedestrian to an area hospital on Tuesday. By ANDRE BYIK DN Staff Writer LOS MOLINOS — A 52-year-old Corning man suffered major injuries after being struck by an alleged intoxicated driver as he was walking on the Sacramento River bridge at Aramayo Way Tuesday afternoon. Officer Albert Franks with the California Highway Patrol said the pedestrian, identified as Rickey French, was struck and thrown over the side of the bridge about 12:10 p.m. after the driver of a red Mercury Marquis sedan traveling at a high rate of speed rear-ended a man driving a white Ford Ranger pickup truck. Franks said the driver of the pickup, identified as 32year-old William Renstrom, of Los Molinos, safely turned westbound on Aramayo Way from Tehama and Vina Road and was building speed as he began to cross the bridge. The driver of the red sedan, identified as 52year-old Carolyn Pelham, of Los Molinos, allegedly didn't notice Renstrom was driving at a slower speed because she was intoxicated and rear-ended the pickup truck. The impact caused the pickup truck to spin out of control into the eastbound lane and into a guard rail on the south side of the bridge while Pelham struck the See CRASH, page 7A Singer wants your vote for national competition By HEATHER HACKING MediaNews Group You might have heard singer Leah Christie last April at the Red Bluff Round-Up. Or you might have heard her belt out a tune at a local musical event in Northern California. Her dream is that in December thousands of people will hear her sing the National Anthem in Las Vegas at the National Finals Rodeo. Christie, of Chico, is among the finalists in a competition to choose the anthem singer for the event Dec. 4-15. People vote online, http://goo.gl/6k7yLf, in four categories. — Large, medium, small and youth. On the video taken in Red Bluff, Christie is wearing a tan cowboy hat, brown cowboy boots and a shirt with red, white and blue fringe. In a strong, deep voice she belts out the country's anthem. The performance, as well as a previous one at the event, won her the nomination to the national competition. Sponsored by Wrangler, the top four videos in each category were chosen and posted o n l i n e : http://goo.gl/6k7yLf. Red Bluff is in the "large" category. Christie called the newspaper, on a break from her job at Tri Counties Bank. She is hoping local folks will go online and give her a vote. She's been singing since her 20s, beginning at rodeos in Eureka, where she played with a country band. Currently, now age 41, she sings in the classic rock and dance band All Fired Up. She's also a signer with Swamp Daddy, a local "red hot New Orleans rhythm and blues band." While her video serves See VOTE, page 7A Transit labor clash resolved after deadly accident OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — It took months of tortured talks, two strikes and the deaths of two workers for San Francisco's transit rail workers and their employer to finally agree on a contract that got trains running again Tuesday. The saga left commuters fuming and both 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 sides bruised. A state lawmaker is considering introducing a bill that would ban public transit strikes, an idea seemingly anathema to a Democratcontrolled Legislature friendly to unions but perhaps a possibility because of the anger over the strike. The tentative agreement between unions and Bay Area Rapid Transit came together quickly late Monday, just two days after a pair of transit workers were killed by a train operated by a BART employee being trained. The deaths shook both sides and helped get them back to a negotiating table they had deserted Friday. The accident made it ''more difficult for BART management to maintain a very hard line and not accept any kind of compromise,'' said John Logan, an invited observer to the bargaining sessions who is director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University. Logan added that the unions ''did not want this strike to go on and did not see it as in their interest,'' partly because the public seemed to be blaming workers rather than management for the disruption to their lives. Commuters who had faced traffic jams, crammed buses and crowded ferries gave a collective sigh of relief as train service resumed, carrying passengers across the sprawling region. Hayward resident Meshe Harris, who has no car, was among the thousands of commuters who closely followed the talks. She had a job interview Tuesday and needed service to resume so she could get there. ''I was hoping, thank God, that it was going to be running soon,'' she said. The tentative contract deal, announced by BART and its two largest unions, requires approval from the rank and file and BART's board of directors. Both sides said they had made concessions. ''This deal is more than we wanted to pay.'' said BART general manager Grace Crunican, declining to elaborate. A third union, representing about 200 workers including financial analysts and people who monitor trains from a command center, is still negotiating with BART. ''We seem to be movSee TRANSIT, page 7A