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WEEKEND NOVEMBER 2-3 2013 73/45 Weather forecast 10B www.redbluffdailynews.com DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Mostly sunny Breaking news at: TEHAMA COUNTY $1.00 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 Hope pedaller City mulls ban on leaf burning By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff City Council is scheduled to discuss a much stricter outdoor burning ban targeting the burning of leaves that could take effect as early as Tuesday night. The ordinance is scheduled for council discussion when it meets 7 p.m. Tuesday at the City Council Chambers, 555 Washington St. The ordinance bans all residential burning except for cooking fires within an appropriate barbecue, permitted burns for land clearing and special events and firefighting training burns. The ordinance has been drafted two ways, allowing for the council to pass it as a standard ordinance that would take effect 30 days following a second reading or See CITY, page 9A Burn ban lifted in Tehama County Daily News photo by Rich Greene Juvenile Hall Counselor Fred Avila works on a bicycle at the Tehama County Probation Department's Day Reporting Center bicycle shop. The program is seeking used bicycle donations from the public that will be restored for Christmas presents for needy children. By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer A few years ago, back when he owned Fast Wheels Bike Shop, Fred Avila recalls a night when a sheriff's employee showed up at his store with a bicycle handcuffed to a patrol car. The officer explained that he was driving around when he passed a man who was quite well-known around town for riding on his bicycle. This particular evening the man was sitting next to his bike unable to go about his usual travels because the bike was broken. Avila waited until the store closed and then did what he did so many times, fixed someone's bicycle for free. "I was a horrible business owner," Avila jokes. Avila doen't tell the story to talk about his former business, rather he often recalls the night as a way to explain what type of place Tehama County is. It's a place where law enforcement know the people by name and business owners do what they can to help out those less fortunate. Maybe more importantly it's a place where everyone seems to know that — it's why an officer would just show up at a repair shop with a broken bicycle handcuffed to a car. When Avila talks about Tehama Study: Changes needed in prison realignment law SACRAMENTO (AP) — A study of Gov. Jerry Brown's 2-year-old prison realignment law released Friday recommends major changes that would relieve some of the burden from California's counties. Under the law, lowerlevel offenders are sent to county jails instead of state prisons, sometimes for lengthy sentences. When they're released, they're supervised by local probation officers instead of state parole agents. The study by the Stanford Criminal Justice Center recommends capping county jail sentences at three years and having ex-offenders with serious or violent records supervised by state parole agents, not county probation. The study also says parolees who repeatedly violate terms of their release should go to state prisons and not county jails, where they often are released within days because of overcrowding. Researchers interviewed 125 local police officials, sheriffs, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys and probation officers for the $200,000 study, which was funded partly by the U.S. Department of Justice. The consensus was ''this happened too fast, See PRISON, page 9A County's charm he uses the present tense, unlike many these days who seem to speak of their home as a place that once was. Avila would have reason to join that pessimistic chorus. Eventually the slowed economy caught up to his shop and he closed its doors for good the same as many other businesses around town have done in recent years. A few months after closing shop, Avila was back to working on bikes — not for a bicycle shop, but the Tehama County Probation Department. It's there on a day-to-day basis dealing with the fallout of CaliforSee HOPE, page 9A Due to the reduced threat of wildfire with the weather change, the Tehama-Glenn Unit of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Cal Fire, and the Tehama County Fire Department (TCFD) announced Friday that as of 8 a.m. Monday Nov. 4, the burn ban for Tehama County and the State Responsibility Areas of Glenn County will be lifted. The city of Red Bluff is also lifting its own burn ban beginning Monday. Vegetation debris burns of clean and dry vegetative waste such as leaves, pine needles and yard clippings will be allowable on or after Nov. 4 if it is a permissible burn day and if weather conditions are appropriate. The burning hours for Tehama County are 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. In Glenn County the burn hours are 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. While burn permits are not required until May 1, 2014 in Tehama County and the State Responsibility Areas of Glenn County; burn permits are recommended and can be obtained at the Cal Fire Red Bluff Headquarters and the fire stations in Paynes Creek, Los Molinos, Bowman and Corning. Burn barrels are not legal and citations can be issued. Burn day status can be determined by calling Tehama County Air Pollution at (530) 5273717 or Glenn County Air Pollution at (800) 4462876. Residents are reminded to use caution and have consideration for their neighbors while burning by observing the followSee COUNTY, page 9A Crowds hit the streets for Art Walk Daily News photo by Chip Thompson The Tehama County Arts Council's annual Art Walk kicked off Friday evening at businesses throughout downtown Red Bluff, including the recently opened Studio 530 photography studio and frame shop on Walnut Street near Madison Avenue. The event continues 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.