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WEDNESDAY MARCH 9, 2011 Breaking news at: Fitness Studio Opens Commerce www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A RED BLUFF Athletes of the Week SPORTS 1B Mostly sunny 67/46 Weather forecast 8B By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A Cottonwood child and teen were taken to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with major injuries Tuesday afternoon following an off 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 Major injuries to girls when go-kart flips road go-kart crash about 1 p.m. The 16-year-old girl was in the driver’s seat with a 3- year-old girl in her lap when the crash occurred on private property in the 3900 block of Eastridge Road in Cotton- wood. The 16-year-old said she was driving the 2005 Twist off road go-kart east from the residence about 20-25 mph with both of their hands on the steering wheel when they made a right turn slide around a corner, a California High- way Patrol release said. The vehicle was complete- ly sideways when the left side gained traction, causing the vehicle to overturn and eject both occupants. The vehicle, which was Right tree, wrong place rolling when the girls were thrown, came to rest on the 3- year-old, the release said. The 3-year-old, who received a compound fracture to her left arm and possible internal injuries, was flown in See GIRLS, page 7A Pot grow trial pushed to fall By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer A cannabis cultivation case against a local events promoter and his son-in-law will continue to trial in late September after a motion to throw out the case was denied Tuesday. Joseph Dailey Froome and Daniel Miguel Lud- wig will face a jury trial on charges of cultivating marijuana and possession of marijuana for sale. Froome faces an additional eight counts of money laundering. Tehama County Superior Court Judge Todd Bot- tke issued a final ruling denying the entire motion by defense attorneys William Panzer and James See TRIAL, page 7A Jury convicts man of damaging wildlife refuge By GREG WELTER Daily News photo by Tang Lor Sixth-grader Kolby Button identifies the wrong trees in the wrong place while PG&E’s Kelly Frederickson explains the display. By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer In celebration of Arbor Day many trees are expected to be plant- ed this month. And while most people look down to find the right spot to plant a tree, Pacific Gas and Electric is advising to look up instead. Planting the right tree Report: Business climate not source of CA job woes LOS ANGELES (AP) — Job growth in Califor- nia lags behind Texas and other states, but those who blame the disparity on high taxes and onerous regulations in the Golden State aren’t entirely cor- rect, according to an eco- nomic study released Wednesday. The quarterly Ander- son Forecast from the University of California, Los Angeles, said Texas has been able to keep its unemployment rate lower than California’s because of its success in attracting businesses that rely on low land and labor costs and its avoidance of a housing boom — and sub- sequent bust — not because of any particular- ly pro-business policies. “You don’t see any- thing that suggests that because in Texas you have a different kind of tax sys- tem and a business-friend- ly climate that you’re get- ting this wholesale move- ment of California busi- nesses into Texas,” said forecast author Jerry Nickelsburg. California has out- paced Texas in creating or maintaining jobs in sec- tors where it has a com- petitive advantage, such as computer equipment production, winemaking and satellite technologies, according to the forecast, which compared Califor- nia to Texas in the study because it is the fastest- growing U.S. state in terms of population and job creation. If companies were responding primarily to the states’ business cli- mates, Texas should be outperforming California in all sectors, he wrote. Nickelsburg noted in the study that California companies received many times the venture capital investment than that received by Texas firms both pre- and post-reces- sion, indicating that investors saw California as a favorable place to See WOES, page 7A 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Red Bluff Outdoor Power in the right place will ensure that trees do not create a hazard around power lines, said Kelly Frederickson of PG&E’s vegetation management team. “There are right kinds of trees to plant under power lines and some not so much,” Frederickson said. See TREE, page 7A MediaNews Group SACRAMENTO — An Orland man authori- ties said cut down 40 trees in a national wildlife refuge, and ille- gally laid a gravel path- way, has been convicted in federal court on charges of trespassing and destruction of natural objects. Dean William Lundie, 59, could face up to 18 months in federal prison when sentenced on May 18. In September, 2009, a refuge officer with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service began investigat- ing reports that Lundie, who owns rental property adjacent to the Rio Vista Unit of the Sacramento National wildlife Refuge, six miles east of Corning, had hired a man to clear trees and brush in an easement area leading to his well. A tenant on the land told authorities it See JURY, page 7A Burglars badly damage plant By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer A steel pipe manufac- turing company was ran- sacked and burglarized over the weekend, with thieves stealing equipment and dumping toxic sub- stances onto the factory floor. Co-owner Lisamarie Hayes, 45, of Hayes Pipe & Supply, at 750 Diamond Ave., found her business a mess Monday morning, she said. Over the weekend, someone broke through the wooden office door and stolen a computer, a safe containing payroll checks, survey equipment, 35 feet of copper wire, tools and other items. Still figuring out the cost of damages Tuesday, estimates were already more than $20,000, she said. When she went to check the security cameras, she found out those were stolen too. “They took everything,” she said. Perhaps wielding a large hammer that is nor- mally used for pipe-work- ing to smash open the office door, the culprits left some tools and overalls in front of the door on the way out. It will cost at least $500 to fix all the locks, Hayes said. The hammer was missing as well. Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Hayes Pipe & Supply was burglarized over the weekend. Workers were trying to soak up an area of toxic hydraulic fluids that a culprit dumped from a 50-gallon drum onto the workroom floor. “Thank God our dog wasn’t there,” Hayes said. There were two sets of footprints and a set of dog prints left behind, she said. “I don’t think anyone we know would have done this,” she said. “We’re a lit- tle family out there.” The suspects may have come in on Friday and then returned Sunday, Hayes See PLANT, page 7A PHYSICIAN REFERRAL A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1-800-990-9971 CHW North State Region