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TUESDAY Fat-Burning Exercises DECEMBER 24, 2013 Holiday Classic Wrap-up Vitality Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A SPORTS 1B DAILY NEWS RED BLUFF Sunny 69/37 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 Transitional program for homeless in jeopardy By RICH GREENE DN Staff Writer A missed deadline by another county has left the Poor and the Homeless Tehama County Coalition in need of community donations to keep its Pathways Men's Transitional Housing program running. PATH Board President E.C. Ross said a joint grant applica- tion administered by Glenn County was filed a day late and, as a result, Tehama County will lose out on about $97,000. That money was used to run the organization's transitional housing program, a sort of middle step to transition men from being homeless back into the work society. PATH Vice President Allene Dering said most of the group's costs come from the rent it pays for the three apartments, which are shared by men in the program, as well as employment overhead for a house monitor. The loss of grant money should not effect the PATH Sale House for women and children as the group pays minimal rent and has more donated hours for house monitoring. Ross said the group hopes private donations could pick up some of the slack in funding. Although he said donations have been down recently, outside of the group's well attended PATH Walk in September. "The reasons why, I couldn't tell you but we can always blame the economy," Ross said. A dinner auction is planned for May. Derring said the men's pro- Christmas cheer for troop Courtesy photo Pictured left to right are Kathy Peters, Bob Chaney, Russ Baluk, Chuck Peters and Beth Chaney. The Military Family Support Group of Tehama County recently mailed 32 Christmas care packages to deployed troops from the area. The support group would like to thank the community for its continued support through monetary and product donations. The group is accepting names of deployed soldiers to add to the care package mailing list. Care packages are mailed every other month. The group is continuing to collect names for the Gulf War Era monument located on Oak Street between the County Administration building and the Veterans Hall. For more info call Beth Chaney at 529-2416 or Kathy Peters at 529-1852. gram has created a number of success stories, although the transition step takes about two years from taking someone from being to homeless to having them on their own again. Derring said PATH has enough funds to keep the program afloat for about six more months, before figuring out See PATH, page 7A Calif. health exchange struggles with heavy volume SACRAMENTO (AP) — The agency overseeing California's health insurance exchange offered a bit of breathing room for consumers who tried but failed to meet Monday's deadline for coverage starting in the new year, as its website and call centers were overwhelmed by last-minute demand. It did not formally extend the sign-up deadline beyond Monday, as the Obama administration did for the 36 states using the federal health insurance exchange. But as high volume threatened to undermine the deadline-day attempts of thousands of consumers, the agency offered help for people who were trying to enroll. Executive Director Peter Lee told reporters that Covered California will institute a ''grace period'' for those who attempted to get coverage Monday but were unable to sign up. ''We're going to help people get across the finish line,'' he said. How to get there, however, is a bit fuzzy. Lee did not commit to a date when that grace period would end but said the agency's goal was to have an insurance policy in place for everyone who tried to get one by Monday's deadline. Determining whether someone actually made an attempt to get coverage would be done on a case-by-case basis, he said. Monday was the deadline to sign up for coverage so insurance policy would be in place by Jan. 1, and consumers have until Jan. 6 to pay their premiums. Covered California has had a surge in the number of people signing up for coverage as the deadline approached. Lee said the number people who had signed up for an individual health insurance policy through the exchange had topped 400,000. The previously reported figure was 109,000 by the end of See HEALTH, page 7A Chico man Blaze destroys Red Bluff mobile sentenced for indecent material SACRAMENTO — Amado Hernandez, 34, a former resident of Chico, was sentenced Friday by United States District Judge Garland Burrell, Jr. to eight years in prison for receipt of child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin Wagner announced. According to court documents, in the summer of 2010 in Glenn County, a concerned resident reported to law enforcement that he had found child pornography on a computer he had gotten for free at a garage sale. The computer initially appeared to be inoperable, but the man repaired it and discovered images of child pornography on the hard drive. The F.B.I. conducted a forensic review of the computer, which showed that the Microsoft Windows software loaded on the computer was registered to the defendant. The computer also contained photographs of Hernandez. The forensic review revealed that there were about 450 still images of child pornography and 250 videos of child pornography on the abandoned com- 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 puter. Many were downloaded by Hernandez using a peer-to-peer file-sharing network. The defendant was contacted in San Diego Jan. 2, 2011 on the cruise ship where he worked. Law enforcement agents found child pornography on the laptop he had in his possession at that time. Hernandez admitted that he had abandoned the other computer in Chico in 2009 before he left to work on the cruise ship. This case was the product of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Assistant United States Attorney Michele Beckwith prosecuted the case. The investigation in this case was undertaken as part of Project Safe Childhood, a United States Department of Justice initiative established to increase federal prosecutions of violent sexual predators of children, and to reduce the number of Internet crimes against children including child pornography trafficking. For additional information on the PSC initiative, please go to www.projectsafechildhood.gov or call the United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California and ask to speak with the PSC coordinator. Courtesy photo by Ross Palubeski CalFire, Red Bluff and Tehama County fire departments responded around 8:20 p.m. Sunday to a reported mobile home on fire in the Homewood Mobile Home Park at 230 White Road in Red Bluff. The first unit at scene reported that space #12 was fully involved. The fire was contained in about an hour. No other structures were damaged. Units responded from Antelope, Red Bluff City, Dibble Creek, El Camino and Los Molinos. 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