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Thursday, March 3, 2011 – Daily News – 5A Death Notice Lorene H. Fries Lorene H. Fries died Monday, Feb. 28, 2011, in Red Bluff. She was 91. Hoyt-Cole Chapel of the Flowers is handling the arrangements. Published Thursday, March 3, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. CHASE Continued from page 1A again and chased him to the area of Lincoln and Crittenden streets, accord- ing to police logs. He caught up with the suspect near the Department of Education building at 1135 Lincoln St. Anthony William Dou- glas, 19, of Red Bluff was arrested after running from officers, when they learned he had outstand- ing $5,000 warrant. Upon searching Dou- glas, officers found items that had been stolen earli- er that evening, including BOOKS Continued from page 1A visited Tuesday through Thursday and students guess- ing who it was had the chance to win a Dr. Seuss book. Bend School started its celebration at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday with students reading the Read Across America Poem with the morning announcements. The Cat in the Hat, also known as Bonnie Lewis, visited the gym at 1 p.m. to read to the students. After the reading, all students had the chance to have their names drawn to pick a free book of their choice and receive a goodie bag of Dr. Seuss materials such as pencils and erasers. Throughout the week, students colored pages with various Dr. Seuss characters, did puzzles, themed activ- ities and had classroom reads of Dr. Seuss books. There were Dr. Seuss books on display in the library that were available for checkout and bookmarks for students. At West Street School, students will celebrate Dr. Seuss and Read Across American with the staff per- forming The Foot Book Friday, said Principal Megan Neely. The school will kick off its Reading Olympics to encourage more students to read and have guest readers read their favorite stories. On Tuesday, March 8, the school will host Read Alouds by the Campfire. Gerber School started the day early Wednesday with its kitchen staff providing Green Eggs and Ham, said Principal Rod Stone. Students from different grade levels were paired up for buddy reading with a theme of Read Around the World, Stone said. Students earned points for reading books and their names were placed on hot air balloons in the cafeteria displayed next to the different conti- nents. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Woman survives 35-mile ride on minivan hood MANTECA (AP) — Osborn said. The woman desperately gripped a windshield wiper blade, her body splayed across the hood of the mini- van as it raced down a Northern California free- way in the middle of the night, reaching 100 mph, witnesses said. With the temperature hovering in the low 30s, Christopher Michael Car- roll drove 35 miles from Manteca to nearby Pleasan- ton on Saturday with his wife clinging to the hood, prompting 911 calls from at least two alarmed witness- es, police said. Carroll, 36, was being held without bail Wednes- day at the San Joaquin County Jail on charges of attempted murder, kidnap- ping and domestic assault, according to sheriff’s department records. Carroll got into the fam- ily’s minivan around 12:30 a.m. Saturday after he and his wife had an argument at their Manteca home, said police spokesman Rex Osborn. “She kind of goes with the van to try to stop him, gets up on the hood and is hanging on to the wiper blade,” he said. “She obvi- ously didn’t think he would keep driving.” Carroll sped through Manteca, got on the free- way and didn’t pull over until he reached Pleasanton, One witness followed Carroll most of the way and told police his speed reached 100 mph. Eventually, Carroll slowed down the vehicle and his wife “was able to roll off,” Osborn said. The driver following the vehicle took the woman to a nearby hospital, where she was treated for hypothermia. Carroll returned home, where police arrested him a short time later, Osborn said. He is scheduled to appear in court Thursday, and authorities said they wouldn’t know whether he has an attorney until then. The wild ride happened several days after Carroll was arrested for being under the influence of a controlled substance, Osborn said. Police received a phone call Feb. 23 from a witness who reported that Carroll had climbed into a 6-foot- deep trash bin in Manteca and was threatening to drown himself in the 5 inches of water that had col- lected at the bottom, Osborn said. “We went out there and talked to him for about an hour and he was obviously on some kind of drugs,” Osborn said. Carroll was booked into county jail that afternoon and released the following day, he said. “The more a student reads, the more continents their names travel to around the world,” Stone said. “This has been a great stimulus to encourage students to read.” the iPod charger, the release said. Douglas had a GPS unit he admitted to stealing from a pick-up earlier in the evening, but officers were unable to locate the truck or owner of the device. Douglas was booked into the Tehama County Jail on charges of posses- sion of stolen property, obstructing or resisting arrest and the existing charges of the warrant. Bail was set at $18,000. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. FEE Continued from page 1A In all other zones, for properties smaller than 3 acres, fees are suspended for one year. For those over 3 acres, fees will be deferred until the project is complete. The fee will have to be paid in full before occupancy. Development impact fees are levied on new pro- jects to help pay for costs that result from growth and are not on the site of the project. The funds are used by the city to pay for facilities and equipment that are needed to accom- modate growth. With implementation of the temporary fee policy the city stands to lose an estimated $1 million on projects that have already been identified. Those projects are the Holiday Inn, a 56-unit apartment complex near Vista Way and 60 single family homes on Walnut Street. Ridding development CORNING Continued from page 1A the candidates, but since there were two candidates who had spent their own time and money running for the seat in the November election they should be chosen to fill the seat. Candidates were asked a number of questions including whether they could bring an open mind to the coun- cil regarding medical marijuana and if they had new ideas to save money with the budget. Linnet answered that he was not against medical marijuana, but was a little leery of some of the places where people could get recommendations. He said he was not against having a specific zone for it. His biggest con- cern was it being accessible to chil- dren. As for budget ideas, Linnet said the city has already done a great job with cutting back and at this point in time enough cuts have been made. “I’ve talked to staff and they know what’s going on,” Linnet said. “I don’t think there will be a need for big cuts. I think the economy is going to turn around.” Asked by Leach why he had not run in November, Linnet said there were enough great people running in the race in November. Candidates were asked whether or not they would support a tax to support fire dispatch because the $200,000 to fund fire dispatch has to come from somewhere, Strack said. SAFE Continued from page 1A Tehama County Sheriff’s Office and Red Bluff Police, said one of his main goals in life is to protect children. “I am dedicated to what is good for chil- dren, having worked with them for most of my life,” Webb said. Under his Project SMART, Webb has developed two sets of guidelines, one for chil- dren and one for parents, to keep children safe. SMART stands for Safe- ty Means Abduction Resistance Training. Webb, a father of eight and grandfather and great grandfather to many more, said Project SMART is a task he has the privilege of undertak- ing because there are some parents who just can’t or don’t teach their children. Young children are being taken advantage of by adults because parents are not doing enough to prevent it from happen- ing, either through not educating their own chil- dren how to protect themselves or not doing enough to stop predators, Webb said. “Unfortunately we have a lot of people who became parents that should never have become parents and some who want to be but don’t know how to be,” he said. Webb got the idea to start Project SMART STORE Continued from page 1A Muumuu was chasing customers with her elec- tric cart and refusing to leave the store, the logs said. Officers contacted the woman who denied any involvement or altercation in the store. She left upon request. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com. 529-3655 www.affordablemortuary.net Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Dave Linnet shakes hands with Mayor Gary Strack Tuesday at a special Corning City Council meeting during which Linnet was chosen to fill a vacant council seat. Linnet has always been a no more taxes person until it comes to the fire or police departments. Linnet said he would like to see the council work on improving local busi- nesses. “They raised the commercial build- ing permit costs a few years ago so I’d like to see them make it easier for busi- nesses to get in,” Linnet said. “I’ve Project SMART Tips • If you are home alone and someone comes to your front door, you cannot see who it is or do not know them do not answer the door. • If someone calls on the phone for mom or dad, never say they are not home. Say they are busy and you will be happy to take a message for them. • If you come home from school and you are alone, and are told to stay home, do so. Never leave without permission from your parents. • When you are on the computer make sure to follow the same rules given by your parents whether they are home or not. Make sure not to give any personal information over the Internet. Information people give about themselves is not always true. Someone could say they are a kid your age and actually be an adult with bad inten- tions. • Remember, the information you share about yourself on the computer with a particular person is out there for everyone to see not just the per- son you wanted to share it with. • If you are out shopping with your parents, stay with them do not wander off by yourself. • If you are leaving school and someone stops you and says they are here to pick you up for your parents, stop, and go directly back to school office and tell. • If you are out with a friend, make sure you only go where you told your parents you were going. Don’t go anywhere else without permission first. from the Vanished Chil- dren’s Alliance in San Jose, which has awarded him with a certificate of appreciation for his dedi- cated work. Due to the economy, the alliance closed in 2009. But the issue of child protection is still just as prevalent, Webb said. Children need to learn how to help themselves against anyone who wants to hurt them. Sexu- al predators can be any place, just waiting to take advantage of gullible children, and it should be everyone’s duty to pro- tect children. “If a 25-year-old woman and a 30-year-old man want go at it, that’s their business,” Webb said. “But when it’s a 30- year-old man and a 12- year-old girl, it’s our CARE TO COMMENT? At redbluffdailynews.com, scroll to the end of any story, click the link and type away. Located in Chico, CA love to see more businesses in town.” Linnet will be sworn-in at the March 8 meeting, at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 794 Third St. Meeting minutes and agendas are available at www.corning.org. ——— impact fees for a year is expected to help spur growth and development and is the best thing for job stimulus, Councilman Wayne Brown has said. Brown and Council- woman Daniele Jackson were appointed to a devel- opment impact fee adhoc committee. The commit- tee was created by the council Tuesday at the request of Red Bluff Rebound to examine the city’s overall development impact fee policy. Rebound members Brian Ramsey and Charlie Wright and a Red Bluff- Tehama County Chamber of Commerce representa- tive will be a part of the committee. For information on the Development Impact Fee Suspension and Deferral Holiday, including specif- ic requirements for quali- fication, call the city at 527-2605. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. business.” For his work through Project SMART and other community out- reach, Webb has received several awards from ser- vice organizations, including Citizen of the Year in 1987 by the Lions Club. But none of those plaques mean anything compared to the joy he gets when he hears a child call him Pops, Webb said. “I’m not trying to impress the kids as some- one special,” Webb said. “I’m just teaching them what they need so they can be someone special.” For health reasons, Webb cannot get out as much as he used to. He has only done one ses- sion in the past 2 years, but before that he was doing one a day, going from schools in Red Bluff to Paskenta and Corning, he said. He would be happy to have someone volunteer to help him out. Anyone who has a little bit of time on their hands and is interested in helping children can be a volun- teer. “I’m just interested in making sure that kids that live in our county or surrounding county get the chance to grow up,” Webb said. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews.co m.