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WEEKEND JANUARY 22-23, 2011 Breaking news at: Nothing Is More Important... USA Weekend www.redbluffdailynews.com See Inside RED BLUFF Back home SPORTS 1B Mostly sunny 69/44 Weather forecast 8B MATT DRANGE MediaNews Group EUREKA—Officials were searching Friday night for a woman and a dog after they and another woman and dog from Red Bluff were swept into the ocean near Dry Lagoon earlier in the 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 Red Bluff pair swept to sea, one still missing morning. The California Highway Patrol said they received a 911 cell phone call at 9:45 a.m. that two women had been swept into the ocean. CHP dispatch immediately routed the call to the U.S. Coast Guard and the Humboldt County Sher- iff’s Office. Sheriff's deputies and a Coast Guard helicopter were immediate- ly dispatched to the scene, along with California State Park rangers. When rangers arrived they learned that two women, 27 years old and 29 years old, had been standing on a rock at the beach near Dry Lagoon, when a large wave swept them and their two dogs off the rock. The 27-year-old female and one of the dogs man- aged to swim out of the surf before rescue personnel arrived. The Sheriff’s Office said that as of 5 p.m. Friday rescue personnel were still searching for the other woman and dog, and they believed Budget beware they might have found a pack the missing woman wore at the time of the incident. The surf level is expected to remain high in the meantime, said National Weather Service meteo- rologist Joseph Clark, who advised See SEA, page 7A Suspected bomb inert, destroyed By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Residents near the 700 block of Ash Street were evacuat- ed for more than five hours Thursday afternoon when a cleaning crew found a suspected pipe bomb inside a vacant apartment. The Red Bluff Police Department called the Shasta County Bomb Squad to the Sycamore Street Apartments See BOMB, page 7A Jobless rate up in December By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Tehama County’s Daily News photo by Tang Lor Maywood Middle School sixth grade teachers Marna Whitley, Teddy Olmer, Jennifer Hall and Raymond Rodriguez pick new books for a language arts curriculum that will be implemented in the fall. By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Plan a budget, but proceed with caution. That is the best advice for K-12 school districts right now as they let out a tiny sigh of relief but brace for what is to come. While Gov. Jerry Brown, acknowledging K-12 education has taken more than its fair share of cuts, did not include any K-12 cuts in his proposed budget, there will be if voters do not approve tax extensions. Schools need to prepare budgets reflecting a worse case BLM rejects Pickens horse rescue plan RENO, Nev. (AP) — A proposal from the wife of Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens to create a sanctuary in Nevada for wild horses removed from public range- land around the West has been rejected, the U.S. Bureau of Land Manage- ment said Friday. Madeleine Pickens’ plan wouldn’t save taxpayers’ money and doesn’t include enough water and forage for the mustangs, agency Direc- tor Bob Abbey told The Associated Press. He said the BLM spent considerable time with Pick- ens on her proposal, and is committed to pursuing pub- lic-private partnerships to improve its management of the symbols of the West. ‘‘However, despite numerous requests from the BLM, (her) foundation has not provided a formal and detailed proposal so that the BLM can properly analyze and determine its feasibili- ty,’’ Abbey said. Pickens said the BLM failed to clarify what details it wanted, but she was not giving up. She bought two ranches in northeastern Nevada last year to serve as a sanctuary for mustangs captured from the range, instead of in government- funded holding facilities. ‘‘I’m going to keep working with the BLM,’’ she told the AP. ‘‘It’s like your children. You just have to keep working with them until they get it right. To me, it’s sad we don’t have the leadership to fix the issue of these poor American mus- tangs.’’ Pickens first proposed establishing the sanctuary in 2008 after the BLM said it was considering euthanasia as a way to stem escalating costs of keeping animals gathered from the open range. The BLM rejected her initial proposal, saying it involved the use of public land where wild horses did not exist when the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act was enacted in 1971. While Pickens’ latest proposal addresses that issue, Abbey said it would require an environmental analysis to transfer title of wild horses to her and change the class of livestock authorized on several Neva- da grazing allotments from cattle to horses. Among other reasons, existing law also would need to be 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See PLAN, page 7A scenario but plan to implement the best case scenario, said Kate Lane, interim chief business official at Tehama County Office of Education. “We can’t wait until the election in June to see what hap- pens then make our budgets,” she said. If the tax measures do fail, it means K-12 education would suffer a $2 billion cut or about $330 per average daily attendance, or ADA. For Tehama County schools that is a potential loss of See BUDGET, page 7A unemployment rate in December was at 15.7 percent, a slight increase from the previous 15.3 percent a month earlier, according to preliminary numbers released Friday by the Employment Development Depart- ment. An increase in unem- ployment is expected dur- ing the period of Decem- ber through February, and sometimes even March, in the North State because the region relies more heavily on seasonal jobs, EDD spokeswoman Sheila Stock said. The two industries that saw job increases were construction and federal government at 2.9 percent and 3.6 percent, respec- tively. This could be related to the construction of the Fish Passage Improve- ment Project at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam. The data collected does not track whether the jobs are being performed by locals or nonresidents, Stock said. About 3,900 residents were without jobs in December. Farm jobs increased slightly at 1.5 percent, but overall, compared to this time last year, farm jobs have declined 13.1 per- cent. This could be attrib- uted to farms becoming automated or simply not hiring. The weather could have an affect as well, Stock said. The holiday season did See RATE, page 7A Relay For Life kicks off with carnival By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — Those who showed up at Carlino’s Event Center in Rolling Hills Casino Thursday may have thought they were in the middle of Mardi Gras, but it was just the kick-off for the 2011 Relay For Life — Carnival For A Cure. “It’s a life-changing event that celebrates the lives that have battled cancer, remem- bers the loved ones lost and fights back against the dis- ease of cancer,” co-Chair- woman Debbie O’Connor said. “You are American Cancer Society volunteers. You are hope and together hope is greater.” The 2010 event, which had 69 teams, raised $168,000, earning special recognition with the Nation- wide Top 10 Per Capita Award, a Fight-Back Star and the Purple Pace Setter See RELAY, page 7A SKILLS CLASS Thurs., Jan. 27 2011 9:30am to12:00pm Job Training Center 718 Main St., Red Bluff Cost $49.00 COMPUTER BASIC Call 529-7000 Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb 2011 Relay For Life co-Chairwomen Jackie Frazier and Debbie O’Connor show off the 2010 Nationwide Top 10 Per Capita Award Thursday at the 2011 kick-off event at Rolling Hills Casino. New Today on RedBluffDailyNews.com Tehama Country Real Estate Special I-fold Edition go to www.epageflip.net/title/8173 Your Business, A Look Inside Five Areas to Assess Your Business for Future Growth Two Dates to Choose From: Wednesday, February 2, 2011 – Red Bluff (Red Bluff Community Center) Wednesday, February 9, 2011 – Corning (Corning Chamber of Commerce) Call the Job Training Center at 529-7000. Join this interactive session featuring The ChicoProject which assists small and microenterprises with business and strategic planning, marketing, Web development, Web marketing, IT integration, sales assistance, finance and accounting. Leave knowing what areas you should be focused on. Sponsored by 3Core, the Job Training Center, County of Tehama, TehamaEDC and the ChicoProject. 2-5 pm / Cost: $45 per person Pre-registration required.