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THURSDAY Guitar Trios at Ramirez Leads State Theatre NOVEMBER 14, 2013 Pastimes Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 73/46 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 Teen killed in collision on State Route 36W A 19-year-old Red Bluff man was killed Tuesday night after being struck by a pickup truck on State Route 36W east of McCoy Road. Authorities have not yet released the name of the deceased. According to the California Highway Patrol's Collision Report the 19-year-old was walking westbound on 36W in the eastbound traffic lane near the north shoulder around 8:15 p.m. Meanwhile a 1989 Chevrolet pickup being driven by Christopher Rathja, 35, Red Bluff was traveling east bound on 36W east of McCoy Road around 45 to 50 mph. The 19-year-old then moved into the traffic lane directly in front of the vehicle. Rathja applied the vehicle's Higher Expectations brakes and swerved to the right, but could not avoid striking the teenager, who was hit with the left front of the pickup. The 19-year-old was reported dead at the scene. Pair arrested after Corning pursuit The Tehama County Sheriff's Department was led on a high speed pursuit early Wednesday morning that resulted in two men being arrested — one of whom was detained after deputies broke out a vehicle window to get to the man. According to a department press release deputies attempted to conduct a traffic enforcement stop on a Toyota truck that had been called in as a possible DUI driver around 1:15 a.m. The vehicle was located driving southbound on Interstate 5 at Flores Avenue. When deputies attempted the stop, the driver sped up to See PAIR, page 7A Health insurance forum set tonight Daily News photo by Andre Byik Expect More Tehama, a group that facilitates community collaboration that focuses on student success, held its fourth annual summit Wednesday at Rolling Hills Casino in Corning. By ANDRE BYIK DN Staff Writer CORNING — Jesse Cox, a building contractor in Trinity County, came to see how it's done. Richard Muench, Tehama County's chief probation officer, came because the community can and should change. And Larry Champion, the county's superintendent of schools, in part came to celebrate the work that was achieved over the year. They and many more community members, government and school officials, business leaders and faith based organizations packed an event center at Rolling Hills Casino on Wednesday for the fourth annual Expect More Tehama Summit. Founded in 2009, Expect More Tehama is a "community collaboration to transform Tehama County by championing high expectations for higher education and career readiness," according to its website. The movement's goals include seeing that all Tehama County students graduate from high school, that all students are prepared for college or the workforce, and that resources are available to those who seek them. At the summit, attendees listened, spoke and brainstormed ideas that could help in achieving those goals. Kathy Garcia, a Expect More Tehama Leadership Team member and business services and marketing manager at the county's Job Training Center, said she enjoyed the buzz the summit has generated over the years. "The first year people were concerned," Garcia said. "'Are we going to come and spend all day with you and plan something? (If) you're going to make us plan and put it up on the shelf I don't really want to be Redding man gets 4 years for mortgage fraud SACRAMENTO, Calif. — U.S. District Judge William Shubb sentenced Brandon Hanly, 33, of Redding, Wednesday to four years in prison for a mortgage fraud scheme, United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced. According to the evidence presented at his trial, from September 2005 to April 2006, Hanly and others participated in a scheme to defraud lenders. In order to obtain loans and cash above the true value of a house, they provided the lender with inflated appraisals and title reports with fake liens in the name of a shell com- 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 pany, TPG Investments Inc. Then the defendants gave the lender and escrow officer instructions to pay off the lien to TPG. At trial, Hanly testified that he was a victim of the scheme, but the evidence showed that he personally received more than $300,000 as a result of his participation. Judge Shubb found that Hanly had committed perjury in his trial and increased the sentence in order to "send a message to people who would commit this crime and who would lie about it when they come to court." This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorneys Matthew Segal and Jared Dolan prosecuted the case. a part of that.'" Those concerns, Garcia said, were allayed when Expect More Tehama said plans will turn into results within hundreds of days. In its annual report passed out at the summit, the group highlighted programs such as Tehama Reads, College Options, and the Excursions for Theatre and Culture Club at Los Molinos High School. Over the year the Excursions club visited Ashland, Ore., to attend the Shakespearean Festival, and San Francisco to visit museums, Garcia said. She added that the students also take in area universities, and the trips alone are educational for those who have never traveled outside their small town. "They're seeing traffic for the first See MORE, page 7A By now, everyone has heard of all the problems people are having with healthcare.gov. That website was set up for people to go to in order to enroll for subsidized and cost-sharing insurance required by the Affordable Care Act. Many uninsured people have until March 31 to acquire health insurance or face a tax penalty, and the news has been filled with stories about crashes, downtimes, accusations and problems with the website. While that may be interesting reading here in Northern California, the problematic website cramming the news isn't for Californians. California is one of 17 states that put together its own health exchange called Covered California. A free workshop about Covered California and the Affordable Care Act is scheduled for 6:45 tonight at the Red Bluff Community Center, 1500 S. Jackson St. Covered California is the marketplace that con- nects Californians to accessible health plans. Covered California is where a family or individual may get financial assistance to make coverage more affordable and compare and choose health plans that fit their needs and budget. By law, coverage can't be dropped or denied even if someone has a pre-existing medical condition. The Covered California website provide tools for families and individuals to shop for health insurance. For individuals and families, financial assistance is available on a sliding scale, with more support for those who earn less. Covered California helps determine whether people qualify for these types of assistance programs. The most important thing you can do is go to www.coveredca.com and study the different topics and sections. There is a lot to think about and big decision ahead. Even though the state put See FORUM, page 7A Calif. health exchange enrolls fraction of target SACRAMENTO (AP) — California's new health insurance exchange tentatively enrolled 35,000 people during its first month of operation, a fraction of the eventual goal in the state with the nation's largest uninsured population, federal health officials said Wednesday. A report released by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provided the first glimpse into the operations of Covered California, which faces a monumental task to reach millions of people without insurance and sway them to sign up under the federal Affordable Care Act. The report, covering the start of open enrollment on Oct. 1 through Nov. 2, also showed that about 80,000 lower-income people would be eligible for expanded Medicaid coverage under another prong of the overhaul. California counts nearly 7 million people without health coverage. An estimated 2.3 million are expected to enroll in a health plan through the new agency, known as Covered California, by 2017. The 35,000 figure was defined in the federal report as the number of people who have ''selected'' a plan through the insurance exchange. According to HHS, that means the number of people who have chosen a specific insurance plan, whether or not they have actually followed through and begun paying the premium for it. Covered California said sign-ups 'We were always expecting October would be a month when people would do some comparative shopping but not necessarily go through the entire process. You don't necessarily buy a car on the first trip to the lot.' — Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California have accelerated since then, to about 2,400 people a day so far this month. ''The numbers are better than encouraging,'' Peter Lee, the health exchange's executive director, said in a statement. ''They show momentum and very high consumer interest.'' The report provided no detailed information about those buying plans or what types of plans they selected. For example, it did not say what percentage of those who have selected plans were in the younger and healthier demographic that is sought by insurance companies to balance out those who are sicker and more expensive to cover. In addition to the state-by-state numbers, the Health and Human Services report also provided the overall figure for national enrollment under President Barack Obama's national health reforms. It said that fewer than 27,000 people managed to enroll for health insurance last month in the 36 states relying on the problem-filled federal website. States running their own websites, including California, did better than the federal government, together reporting more than 79,000 sign-ups. Even so, total private insurance enrollment after the first month of the health care rollout was only about onefifth what the administration had expected during that time period. Enrollment numbers nationwide totaled 106,185. A Sept. 5 administration estimate had projected that 494,620 people would enroll in the first month. Critics of the federal health care overhaul and its implementation seized on the relatively paltry sign-up numSee TARGET, page 7A