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MONDAY NOVEMBER 22, 2010 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com Modified push-ups See Page 4A Vitality RED BLUFF Drive for 5 Sports 1B Few showers 51/34 Weather forecast 8B By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Tehama County Board of Supervisors are taking steps to ensure there’s no deja vu of the Transmission Agency of Northern California’s plans to build miles of power lines through the county. On Tuesday, the supervisors will consider a rezone ordi- nance that would require utili- ty providers to obtain the board’s approval for a use per- mit if they want to build high 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 Supervisors hope to prevent another TANC voltage power lines in the area. A public hearing will be held at about 10:30 a.m. before the board makes a deci- sion. The board requested for a rezone ordinance to address these type of projects because of the TANC project, said Bob Halpin, Tehama County Plan- ner II. Supervisors want to make sure they have a proce- dure to follow in dealing with such issues, in case something like TANC tries to come through again. They do not want the projects to happen without their knowledge and approval. In 2009, TANC revealed plans to build 600 miles of power lines across the state, including areas in Tehama and surrounding counties. The pro- ject failed after a public uproar caused project backers to pull out. Use permits to build power lines or electrical substations with the capacity to convey over 100,000 volts or more of electricity would be subject to the board’s review and approval, according the draft ordinance. Shasta and Yolo counties have already passed similar ordinances. The Planning Commission issues use permits, but if this ordinance passes, use permits for such projects will be for- warded to the board after the commission’s consideration for final approval. This would be the first zoning ordinance that would make it so the developer must get board The fun in fundraiser approval. While most use per- mits only deal with specific sites, these type of projects are usually large projects that would have a countywide impact, so it is reasonable that the board would want to have a say in issuing the permit, Halpin said. The Board of Supervisors meeting starts 10 a.m. in Board Chambers, 727 Oak St. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.com. Earthquakes rattle around North state SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An earthquake has rattled a remote area of Plumas County, but authorities say there are no reports of damage. The U.S. Geological Survey says a quake with a prelim- inary magnitude of 3.8 hit around 12:09 p.m. Sunday about two miles southwest of the community of Cromberg, or about 40 miles south of Susanville. A dispatcher with the Plumas County Sheriff’s Depart- ment says the department had not received any calls for ser- vice. The quake comes after a four quakes ranging from mag- nitude 3.5 to 2.5 hit between late Friday and early Sunday in nearby Shasta County. All of those quakes were centered about 30 miles east of Redding. No damage was reported in those quakes. A geophysicist with the U.S.G.S says it is too early to tell if the earthquakes were related. Cities bring pot growing into light BERKELEY (AP) — As numerous cities get set Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb St. Elizabeth Home Health and Hospice Thrift Store Manager Muriel Mazzone takes a look at a sweater while shopping at Wink Thursday during a fundraiser for St. Elizabeth’s Greatest Needs Fund. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A group of women from St. Eliz- abeth Community Hospital and local physicians’ offices gathered Thursday evening at Wink to raise funds for a good cause while having some fun. “It’s just a bunch of girlfriends who got together and said ‘why not do something fun for a good cause,’” said Kris Behrens, market- ing and community relations man- ager for the hospital. Behrens, along with co-founders of Wink, Sarah Rider, Sophia Swarthout and Amber Micke and, Cori Dittner of Riverside Bar and Grill organized the event, which included shopping and desserts. A portion of the proceeds from the evening were donated by Wink to the hospital’s Greatest Needs Fund, which goes wherever the need is greatest at the hospital, including machinery that breaks and needs to be replaced, Behrens said. “We’re just trying to help out the community,” Rider said. “We do private parties for ladies and the donations is just a new twist. One that we hope to continue.” Behrens came up with the idea for the fundraiser while talking with the co-founders of Wink, she said. “I have a great love for fashion- able, affordable clothing and we got to brainstorming (while shopping) and thought ‘why limit it to nurs- ing,’ and then Cori (Dittner) jumped in to help organize things,” Behrens said. In addition to providing desserts, Riverside gave participants a ticket that designates 60 percent of the — It’s almost unthinkable now that environmentalists and manufacturers once stood together as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill making Califor- nia the first state to regulate toxic chemicals in consumer products. Two years later, with reg- ulations set to take effect in January, the longtime foes are increasingly at odds over how the state should imple- ment regulations that would apply to everything from baby bottles to cars. Environmentalists com- plain the plan is too slow to be effective, while manufac- turers say the state rushed to draft regulations so bureau- cratic and broad they would even apply to the sale of a used boat. The Department of Toxic Substances Control has revised the rules to address criticism as companies threaten to sue if forced to share the chemical makeup of their products. ‘‘I still love the law, it’s just this particular execution that’s a disaster,’’ said Mau- reen Gorsen, who proposed the initiative when she head- ed the DTSC — but is now advising the auto industry against it. ‘‘There’s no incentive for the good and no incentive for the bad — there’s just paperwork.’’ Proponents hope the law 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 won’t become mired in legal wrangling because the stakes are high: other states, the federal government and even other countries are watching as the new law moves toward reality. ‘‘It’s really important for this to get off on the right track,’’ said Assemblyman Mike Feuer, D-Los Angeles, who authored the bill, say- profit from their bill would be donated to the fund. Wink opened its doors on Oct. 1 and, while this is the first benefit the ladies have held, they have been involved in other ventures. The business donated prizes to Shoot For Purpose and the Lassen View Turkey Trot, Rider said. The store is on Oak Street direct- ly across from the State Theatre and is open 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tues- day through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. The phone number is 529-3438. For more information or to donate to the St. Elizabeth Commu- nity Hospital Greatest Needs Fund call at 529-8016. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. California aims to remove toxins in products LOS ANGELES (AP) ing it ‘‘could be a whole new model for how we break the link between toxic chemi- cals and cancer and other serious diseases.’’ There are tens of thou- sands of chemicals in the stream of commerce — chemicals found in every- day products from commer- cial paint to tires. Eighty- five percent of chemicals that come on the market ‘‘have zero info about health and safety,’’ said Joseph H. Guth, a scientist at the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, ‘‘We’re really talking about a giant task that has only gotten bigger — the backlog of evaluating all the chemicals in commerce is enormous,’’ he said. The idea was to use sci- ence to identify harmful chemicals, look at products in which they might be found and require manufac- turers to develop safer alter- natives. The state could eventual- ly ban certain unsafe prod- See BAN, page 7A Your Business, A Look Inside Five Areas to Assess Your Business for Future Growth Featuring Ryne Johnson of The Chico Project Wednesday, December 8, 2010 2-5pm • Red Bluff Community Center Cost: $45 per person To register: call 529-7000 or visit www.jobtrainingcenter.org. to levy voter-approved taxes on medical marijuana retailers, some municipalities in Northern Califor- nia are already moving aggressively toward creat- ing government-sanctioned marijuana farms to help supply them. Cities hope to rake in even more tax revenue from medical marijuana cultivation, which has remained in the shadows although it has been legal in the state since 1996. On Monday, Oakland will begin the application process for four permits to run industrial-scale marijuana farms within city limits. In Berkeley, a successful ballot measure to allow medical pot cultivation in industrial zones has would-be growers scrambling to score scarce real estate. Farther north, the Sonoma County wine country town of Sebastopol passed an ordinance Tuesday allowing for the creation of two large gardens for medical marijuana dispensaries, and two more ‘‘collective’’ gardens where patients could grow their own. In Eureka, the Humboldt County seat, a commit- tee is taking applications for four medical marijua- na cultivation and processing permits to serve as- yet-unopened dispensaries in the city. All this is taking place even though the state’s medical marijuana laws require any businesses in the medical marijuana trade to operate as nonprof- its — and even though the amount of marijuana the cities are authorizing growers to cultivate could net a typical drug trafficker decades in federal prison. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration did not return messages seeking comment on how the agency might respond if the city-approved opera- tions actually started growing pot. Oakland City Councilmember Rebecca Kaplan, who co-sponsored that city’s cultivation ordinance, said the DEA had contacted her office but only to request copies of the regulations and background materials. She said the agency advised her that they were conducting research into the ways vari- ous cities were handling medical marijuana regula- tion. ‘‘I think that’s a very hopeful sign,’’ Kaplan said. California voters earlier this month rejected a ballot proposition that would have legalized mari- juana for recreational use, but the already thriving medical marijuana industry shows few signs of See POT, page 7A The Daily News office will be CLOSED Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 25 & Friday, Nov. 26 Retail advertising deadline for Thanksgiving Day edition is Tuesday, Nov. 23. at 10AM Classified deadline Wednesday, Nov. 24. at Noon D NEWSAILY RED BLUFF TEHAMACOUNTY 527-2151 • FAX 527-3719 545 DIAMOND AVE., RED BLUFF