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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15, 2010 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 8A RED BLUFF Reader Photos Holiday Classic Hoops Preview SPORTS 1B Partly cloudy 52/35 Weather forecast 8B 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 A morgue of one’s own Fairboard to hold 3 night meetings By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Tehama District Fairboard decided Tuesday to switch things up a bit with meeting dates and get an alarm system. After an Oct. 27 break-in, the second or third in the last few years, the board voted to go with Bay Alarm Company in getting a system installed immediately. The new system will cost about $1,000 to be installed both at the shop that was broken into and the office, with a $25 monthly fee for operating the system, Fair CEO Mark Eidman said. During discussion prior to the vote, Director Tonya Redamonti said the cost to install the system is cheap- er when compared with the cost of replacing tools. The board discussed changing to night meetings once a quarter, but decided in the end to go with three meetings a year — at 7 p.m. on the third Tuesdays in March, June and October. The rest of the meetings will remain at 1 p.m. on the See NIGHT, page 7A Daily News photos by Chip Thompson Tehama County Deputy Coroner Chris Sharp demonstrates a suction device Tuesday used during autopsies and examinations at the county’s new morgue inside the Tehama County Sheriff’s Department on the corner of Antelope Boulevard and Hwy 36E in Red Bluff. Deputy Coroner Omar Farmer looks on. By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer More bodies will be sharing the space at the Tehama County Sheriff’s Department headquarters, but the staff does not mind. It will actually make their jobs much eas- ier. A revamp of the space at the east end of the Antelope Boulevard com- plex has turned that unused portion of the facility into a morgue that can hold up to six bodies at a time. There are at least three or four bodies that will go in immediately when the county-owned morgue officially goes into use today, Sheriff Clay Parker said. Having its own morgue will benefit the depart- ment in many ways, including cutting down on transportation costs and preserving evidence. “It will save us on gas and mileage,” Parker said. “Before, we had to trans- Redding church expands to RB By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A new church, Grace Presbyterian Church, has opened its doors in Red Bluff, meeting at Ante- lope School, 22630 Ante- lope Blvd. What started as Red As many as six bodies can be stored at the county’s new morgue. port the bodies back and forth and travel to do autopsies. We can do all that here now.” Deputy Coroner Chris Sharp said coroners can pick up bodies straight from the scene and bring them to the morgue. Knowing that the bodies are coming to their own place assures the staff that no evidence will be tam- pered with. The facility will allow the department to perform all necessary forensic work and store bodies on site Previously bodies had to be transported for stor- age at Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers. The county has had, See MORGUE, page 7A Bluff members of Grace Presbyterian Church in Redding asking to have a Bible study closer to home eventually grew into opening a new church under the auspices of the church in Redding, said Pastor David Stark. “In the beginning of the summer we started holding Bible studies and in September we began holding services in the evening,” Stark said. The weekly Sunday services are held in the evening since Stark also pastors Grace Presbyter- ian in Redding. “We have the building at Antelope School for the next six months,” Stark said. “At that time we want to consider calling a pastor. The goal is to see an independent, fully established congregation in fellowship with our association (in Redding) with mutual support.” Stark said Grace Pres- byterian is a very conserv- ative group of Presbyteri- ans and is committed to the Westminster confes- sion of Faith in 1648 as a member of the Covenanti- ng Association of Reformed and Presbyter- ian Churches. “We believe in Biblical inerrancy, which means we believe the Bible is 100 percent true and our worship is Biblically based,” Stark said. “We’re unapologetically Cal- vanistic, which means we believe in the absolute sovereignty of God and that Jesus Christ is Lord over all areas of life.” Grace Presbyterian is a neo-puritan church, which means they believe God’s word is law in a believer’s home, he said. “We’re not legalistic, but we do believe God’s See CHURCH, page 7A Federal judge 1 killed, 5 hurt in gunbattle at Sacto mall orders rewrite of delta smelt plan FRESNO (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to rewrite parts of its plan to protect a threat- ened fish that lives in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. In an opinion issued Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger says guidelines meant to pro- tect the delta smelt are arbitrary and unlawful. Wanger does not dis- pute that the massive pumps used to deliver water to farms and cities in the San Joaquin Valley and beyond have harmed the threatened fish. But he says parts of the 2008 plan, called a biolog- ical opinion, need to be redone to better determine pumping restrictions’ eco- nomic effects. Attorneys working on the case say the ruling would have no immediate effect on water deliveries, and that details of changes would be decided in future court hearings. Wanger is the same judge who ordered the dis- continuation of gate opera- tions at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam effective in 2012 due to potential harm to endangered salmon. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Red Bluff Outdoor Power SACRAMENTO (AP) — A mother load- ing her 2-year-old son into an SUV was killed Tuesday and five others were wounded in a gun- battle at a strip mall in south Sacramento, authorities said. Two men were inside Fly Cuts & Styles bar- ber shop just before 1 p.m. when two other men came in and started shooting, said Sacra- mento County Sheriff’s Sgt. Tim Curran. The men in the barber shop were armed and returned fire, Curran said. The gunbattle appar- ently moved into the parking lot with at least one of the suspects get- ting into a white sedan. Curran said the gunfire continued as some of the suspects got away. A bullet struck the 30-year-old woman in the chest just after she ‘They are all being treated as victims. We do believe there’s a high probability that those we are with are suspects’ Sacramento County Sheriff’s Sgt. Tim Curran put her son into the child seat of her Chevy Tahoe, Curran said. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene; the REWARD $500 No Questions Asked! Lost Dog, English Bulldog, black collar w/studs, named Brutus, fawn color. Antelope area, (childs dog) 646-7021 child was unhurt and has been placed under child protective ser- vices. ‘‘We believe she’s a totally innocent vic- tim,’’ Curran said. Four of the five men injured in the gunbattle have been taken to local hospitals, including an unidentified man with life-threatening injuries who was shot in the chest, Curran said. He was undergoing surgery, Curran said. A 37-year-old man, who was one of the bar- bers working inside the shop, was shot in the See MALL, page 7A PHYSICIAN REFERRAL A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1-800-990-9971 CHW North State Region