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MONDAY JANUARY 10, 2011 Breaking news at: Woman Offers Free Diet Vitality www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 6A RED BLUFF Cards Win SPORTS 1B Mostly sunny 50/33 Weather forecast 6B By ANDREA WAGNER 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 DN Staff Writer Hundreds of family and friends of the Cattlemen and CattleWomen’s asso- ciations sampled wines and olive oils, ate a hearty steak dinner and hob- nobbed with some local politicians Saturday at their 59th Annual Winter Dinner. The event, held at the Barton, Jordan honored Agritourism talk planned Farmers, agricultural and tourism professionals, Tehama District Fair- ground, hosted association leaders, such as the Cali- fornia Cattlemen’s Associ- ation’s President and Executive Vice President, Kevin Kester and Matt Byrne. The ensuing live and silent auctions benefitted agricultural scholarships given out each year. Earl Moore, and his wife of nearly 50 years, who raise cattle and goats in the Richfield area near Corning, have attended the annual dinner many times. “It’s always good,” Moore said. “It’s always good to see friends you haven’t seen for a year.” Dora Moore, his wife, brought her sisters along Saturday. “It doesn’t matter what you look like or what you wear, you always fit in,” she said. The crowd was cor- ralled through the dining hall and gathered plates full of steak, baked pota- toes and salad, while a sib- ling duo, Brad and Dusty Williams of McArthur, played familiar tunes on fiddle and acoustic guitar. Among the guests were Tehama County supervi- sors, judges, newly-sworn- in Sheriff Dave Hencratt, Rep. Wally Herger, R- Chico, Assemblyman Jim Nielsen, R-Gerber, and State Sen. Doug LaMalfa, R- Richvale. The incoming National Cattlemen’s Beef Associa- tion President Bill Donald of Montana kicked off the night’s presentations with a short quip about spend- ing the day hunting feral pigs in Paskenta with locals. Advocating politi- cal action for the cattle- men’s future, Donald talked about pooling efforts with the World Wildlife Federation to focus on sustainability in beef production. Courtesy photo Above: Past President Arlo Stroing announced the 2010 Man of the Year Bill Barton, and TCCW President Danielle Zane presented a silver money clip from the CattleWomen. Below: Tehama County Cattlemen President Chris Marenco prepares to present CowBelle of the Year Una Jordan the traditional silver cowbell necklace after Tehama County CattleWoman President Danielle Zane made the announcement at the 59th annual winter dinner. local officials and community leaders will sit down to talk about improving agritourism opportunities in the Northern Valley and Mountains region at a Growing Agritourism workshop coordinated by the University of California Small Farm Program. Registration and information are now available online, at http://ucanr.org/2011agtour. Everyone involved in agritourism is invited. The all-day workshop will be held 8:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 23, Wetter Hall, next to UCCE Tehama County, in Red Bluff. Agricultural tourism, or agritourism, allows travel- ers a chance to visit working farms and ranches for enjoyment and education and can include experiences such as visiting a pumpkin patch, tasting wine, staying at a guest ranch, enjoying a U-pick farm or attending a harvest festival. “Agritourism supports rural economies and strength- ens urban-rural connections," said Penny Leff, See TALK, page 5A Brown to unveil tight spending plan, reorder govt SACRAMENTO (AP) — California’s newly sworn-in governor, Jerry Brown, has been cagey about his spending plans for the state of California, offering few specifics about how he will tackle the state’s massive budget shortfall and chronic spending imbalance. One thing he has made clear: Nearly everyone in California will feel the pain. “This association repre- sents your interests,” he said. “If we’re not pulling the same wagon in the same direction, we’re in trouble.” U.S. cattlemen raise beef “better than anyone in the world,” Donald said. “We do it cheaper than anyone with a better out- put.” That makes the connec- tion valuable to sustain- ability or conservation groups that want to save land, Donald said. The outreach to the World New Calif. AG breaks barriers SA CRA- MENTO (AP) — Kamala Har- ris had an early start punching through barriers. In the swirl of civil rights protests in 1960s-era Berkeley, the daughter of a black father from Jamaica Harris and a mother from India was among the second class of students tapped to help desegregate the city’s ele- mentary schools. ‘‘Growing up in that environment, the heroes were the architects of the hold the job. Elected with a less than 1 percent margin in Novem- ber, the 20-year veteran prosecutor from San Fran- cisco plans to imbue her agenda with the calls of jus- tice she heard growing up. Harris, 46, wants to help address the underlying social causes of crime and try to build programs to 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See AG, page 5A civil rights movement,’’ Harris told The Associated Press. Today, Har- ris, 46, is her- self leading the way: She is California’s first female attorney gener- al and the first minority to Wildlife Federation is a venue to reach the Humane Society and groups like People for the Ethical Treatment of Ani- mals. The evening continued with introductions of scholarship recipients and the presentation of the CowBelle of the Year and Man of the Year. The CowBelle of the Year was Una Jordan, who was presented with acco- lades and plaques from LaMalfa and Nielsen. Man of the Year Bill Barton, 81, past president of the Tehama County Cat- tlemen and state director for the California Cattle- men, is a rancher east of Red Bluff. Barton has been cattle ranching in Tehama County since 1964. The evening rounded out with an auction for dozens of items donated by members and local businesses. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, exten- sion 114 or awagner@red- bluffdailynews.com. Brown has warned interest groups, lawmak- ers, schools and citizens to brace themselves, as deep, across-the-board spending cuts will be needed to close the state’s $28 billion shortfall through June 2012. The state has already seen massive cuts to address a succession of multibillion-dollar budget gaps in the last few years, but they were laden with gimmicks and money shifts, many of which offered only short-term relief to the state’s ongo- ing fiscal crisis. ‘‘The budget I present next week will be painful but it will be an honest budget,’’ Brown promised last week in his inaugura- tion speech, saying that any spending will be matched with available revenue. ‘‘It’s a tough budget for tough times.’’ Brown has already begun to lay out a vision in which he will seek to fundamentally restructure state government, shifting a host of responsibilities from the state level to counties and cities, possi- bly giving them more authority to raise local taxes to pay for them. He also has signaled that he wants to severely flatten state government by cutting bureaucracy and merging departments and programs. On Friday he announced he is elimi- nating the Secretary of Education position, many of whose responsibilities were duplicative, and closing several of the gov- ernor’s field offices. Voters also could be asked to weigh in on the changes the state faces. The Los Angeles Times and The Sacramen- to Bee, citing unnamed sources, have also report- ed that Brown will pro- See BROWN, page 5A Dance school back, some still fuming By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Dancing is more than a passion — it’s a way of life for some Red Bluff teens who twirled, jumped and sashayed through a day of free dance classes offered at Beatseekers Dance Center’s grand opening Saturday. Trent and Nicole Dewsnup, a Red Bluff couple, opened the center last week, three years after their former dance school, Breakaway School of Dance, closed its doors on Main Street for financial reasons. “People don’t recog- nize that a beat is every step you take,” Trent Dewsnup said. “You’re seeking your beat every single day. It’s a personal thing.” The school’s new name, Beatseekers, repre- See DANCE, page 5A Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Nicole Dewsnup leads a free modern dance class full of Red Bluff teens Saturday.