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TUESDAY Alcohol With No Hangover NOVEMBER 12, 2013 Niners Look to Bounce Back Vitality Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Few showers 71/46 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 Dedication Boys released after false allegations By ANDRE BYIK DN Staff Writer The Tehama County District Attorney's Office on Friday dismissed all charges against three boys who were held in custody after being falsely accused of attacking another boy with a knife, District Attorney Gregg Cohen said in a prepared statement. Cohen said he, his office and Red Bluff police visited the families of each of the accused to tell them what happened. "Of course the boys' parents were upset," Cohen said in the statement. "I was too. Three innocent boys were jailed for close to three weeks. Although the right thing happened in the long run, three teenage boys were falsely accused and were wrongly held in juvenile hall." See BOYS, page 7A Shelter proponents petition planning Daily News photo by Chip Thompson Jennifer Turner, whose husband Sgt. Tom Turner Jr. was killed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, speaks Monday morning during the dedication of the Gulf War Era monument outside the Tehama County Veterans Memorial Building. Gulf War Era monument offers outlet for pride By CHIP THOMPSON Daily News editor The crowd overflowed onto Oak Street Monday morning for the dedication of the Gulf War Era monument outside the Tehama County Veterans Memorial Building at Oak and Jackson streets in Red Bluff. The monument offers an outlet for the pride of the community in those who have served in multiple operations since 1990, said Jennifer Turner, whose husband Sgt. Tom Turner Jr. was killed during Opera- tion Iraqi Freedom. Turner said the service of her late husband, a Mercy High School graduate, to the nation reflected his commitment and tie to the Red Bluff community. Honoring not only those who have served in the military in recent years, but those who served in the past and those still serving today, Judge Richard Scheuler, a Vietnam veteran, spoke about the character built through military service. During his keynote address, Scheuler read a list of U.S. Presidents who had attained the rank of general and a list of U.S. Presidents who had served in the military. Bob Chaney, of the Military Family Support Group, which built the monument, thanked the Tehama County Board of Supervisors and numerous businesses and individuals who assisted in fundraising and construction of the monument. Turner acknowledged that the sacrifice of her husband and others may have inspired the building of the monument, but it was the efforts of the Military Family Support Group and the entire community that made it a reality. Chaney and his wife, Beth, placed a wreath at the monument, which lists the names of all local residents who served during the Gulf War Era. Four special granite tiles honor those who lost their lives during the conflicts. They are: See PRIDE, page 7A By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer Proponents of a homeless shelter in Red Bluff attended the city's Planning Commission meeting Oct. 29, saying they wanted the issue addressed in the upcoming Housing Element Update. The meeting included one of the first steps for the 5-year Update, a public workshop seeking input on the 2013 Housing Conditions Survey. California mandates cities to update their Housing Element every five years, a necessity for receiving Community Development Block Grant funding in the future. The Housing Conditions Survey is one ele- ment of that update, it determines the number of residential units in the city and categorizes them based upon rehabilitation need. Poor and the Homeless Board President Alene Deering attended the meeting along with Jennifer Haffner an attorney from Legal Services of Northern California. Haffner said her organization, which provides legal services to the poor, and PATH wanted to be a part of the process of creating the Housing Element Update moving forward. Red Bluff's current Housing Element includes a section on homeless shelters. See SHELTER, page 7A Calif. looks to State celebrates milestone with gala cloud seeding to bolster snowpack By ANDRE BYIK DN Staff Writer SACRAMENTO (AP) — With California experiencing a second straight dry year, water agencies are turning to cloud seeding to help pad the state's snowpack. The practice has been around for decades, but cloud seeding has gone mainstream as a result of new technology and research showing its reliable, the Sacramento Bee reported Monday. In a report this year, the California Department of Water Resources estimated cloud seeding projects generate 400,000 acrefeet of additional water supply annually in the state. That's about half the volume of Folsom Reservoir. An acre-foot is enough water to supply a typical household for a year. ''The message is starting to sink in that this is a cost-effective tool,'' said Jeff Tilley, director of weather modification at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, which practices cloud seeding in the Lake Tahoe Basin and 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Eastern Sierra Nevada. ''The technology is better; we understand how to do cloud seeding much better. And because we know how to do it more effectively, it's definitely taken more seriously.'' Cloud seeding involves spraying fine particles of silver iodide into a cloud system. Under the right conditions, the silver iodide causes water droplets in the clouds to form ice crystals that grow larger and turn into snowflakes. The goal is to increase the amount of precipitation that would otherwise fall. Proponents say cloud seeding is cheaper than desalination, new dams and even conservation projects. Additionally, they say concerns about its environmental effects are unfounded. More than a dozen California watersheds have cloud-seeding projects, many of which began running last week, the Bee reported. The cloud-seeding push comes as the state goes through a dry spell. San Francisco's 3.95-inch rainfall total so far this See CLOUD, page 7A Dozens of supporters descended on the State Theatre in Red Bluff on Saturday to watch a symbol of the theater's past go up in flames. The State Theatre for the Arts hosted "Encore," a mortgage-burning gala, signifying the end to a successful campaign to pay off the theater's $475,000 mortgage. State Theatre President Bill Cornelius in a speech thanked the more than 200 "individuals, families, businesses and organizations, who have approximately in 2 1/2 short years have contributed to the amazing total of nearly one half million dollars, allowing us together this evening to celebrate by burning our mortgage." Cornelius said the theater's board of directors decided to purchase the theater in 2011 after it had been operated under a rental basis since 2000. "We fully recognize that we would not be here this evening if not for the hard work of Venita Philbrick and the many dedicated community members who served on several boards of directors during the first decade of the new millennium," Cornelius said. In a letter to the Daily News editor published Oct. 29, former theater Daily News photo by Andre Byik Joe Vine, first vice president for the State Theatre, sets the theater's mortgage aflame on Saturday at the theater in Red Bluff. president Philbrick wrote, "A big thank you from Twin Falls, Idaho to the Red Bluff community that supported the Boards of Directors — starting in 1999 to now, 2013 in their efforts to breathe life back into the historic State Theatre." She added, "This is not the end — just the beginning of a new phase to finish the physical rehab, make it glitter inside and outside, and keep the doors open for generations to come." During the celebration, organizers played a 2011 video message delivered by Tom Hanks, praised as a significant contributor to the theater, who fondly remembered his outings See STATE, page 7A