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THURSDAY MARCH 17, 2011 Breaking news at: Duo to Perform in Anderson Pastimes www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4A RED BLUFF Freshman Perfection SPORTS 1B Scattered rain 55/42 Weather forecast 8B By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Red Bluff will have to wait another year for wild horses to return to the Round-Up. A horse parade or running of the horse event that organizers had planned on bringing back after several years of absence will not be happening this year. The issue became moot when organizer John Growney 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 Running of the Horses put on ice till 2012 backed off, telling the City Council Tuesday he would try for next year. Growney did not go down without making a point about one of the biggest setbacks to holding the event. One of the requirements organizers would have to meet in order to put on the event is to obtain a $5 million liability insurance policy that indemni- fies the city, a requirement ‘It was just time to back off and do it right next year. We’re all one family, one community. There’s no point in us fighting about this’ Organizer John Growney Growney said is nearly impos- sible to meet. Teen Moms Growney pointed out just two weeks ago when the coun- cil was discussing playground equipment, the council and city staff had said they did not want insurance companies and lawyers dictating what happens in Red Bluff. Growney highlighted the positive impacts the event would bring, including media coverage and attracting tourists. “Keep us in mind and we’ll See 2012, page 7A School board to mull agreement The Red Bluff Union Elementary School District Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting today. The board is expected to ratify a tentative agreement with the Red Bluff Elementary Educators Association. This tentative agreement is different from a version that was ratified in February by the teachers’ associa- tion but rejected by the board. A copy of the tentative agreement was not immedi- ately available. Association President Sharon Barrett said this tenta- tive agreement is fair and she was please with how the last two sessions of negotiations were handled. “There was a lot of sharing and exchanging of See BOARD, page 7A Two arrested in Corning break-in Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Teen mothers find a connection while visiting their children during school breaks at a publicly-funded child care facility for teen families in Red Bluff. By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Editor’s note: This is the first article of a three-part series looking at teen pregnancy in Tehama County. Although teenage pregnancies have declined 48 percent in California since 1991, Tehama County’s teen birth rate is higher than most counties in the state, according to the most recent data. “I don’t think people realize how big an issue it is in Tehama County,” said Linda K. Rose, supervising public Watershed grant awards include Deer and Mill creeks Staff Report PLACERVILLE — The Sierra Nevada Con- servancy allocated some $10 million to watershed protection during the gov- erning board’s quarterly meeting March 3 in Plac- erville. The grants include $125,000 for the Mill and Deer creek watersheds in Tehama County. The grant to the West- ern Rivers Conservancy funds planning and coor- dination of the acquisition of 2,730 acres in those two watersheds. The conservancy already purchased 599 acres around Lower Deer Creek Falls from Sierra Pacific Industries in 2009. SPI has agreed to sell an additional 2,730 acres of land. It owns several miles of the south bank of Mill Creek upstream from Black Rock, and parcels that could connect sepa- rated Lassen National Forest land along Deer Creek and Mill Creek. The acquisitions would complete the protection of approximately 30 miles of Deer Creek, as well as 35 miles of Mill Creek. These creeks are recom- mended by the U.S. For- est Service for inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic River System. “These projects will provide jobs and a variety of benefits to the Sierra Nevada Region,” said conservancy Executive Officer Jim Branham, “including reducing the risk of large damaging See CREEKS, page 7A 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 POWER PRODUCTS DOLMAR Red Bluff Outdoor Power health nurse. Tehama has ranked 13 among the highest birth rate aver- ages of California counties, she said. Rose is the director of Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health programs in Tehama County. She oversees state pro- grams that directly help teens who become pregnant. The national trend is teen birth rates are declining, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Feb. 2. The 2009 U.S. rate, the most recent data available, is See MOMS, page 7A Two Tehama County men were arrested early Tuesday morning by Corning Police and booked into Tehama County Jail on the charge of burglary after one of them was seen running from the area of a metal storage building. An officer saw Jason Michael Stewart, 34, of Corning running from the area of the storage build- ing to a pickup, which then left the area, said Corning Police Chief Tony Cardenas. Located at the scene, in the area from where Stewart had run, was a suitcase and bag contain- ing various brass and metal valves along with other items that were later determined to have come from inside the building, Cardenas said. It was determined that entry into the building appeared to have been made by cutting a section of the metal siding with tin snips, he said. The driver of the pick- up, who was later identi- fied as Robert Anthony Nyholt, 33, of Red Bluff, was arrested at 4:42 a.m. at Toomes Avenue and Blackburn Avenue. Bail set at $10,000. Stewart was arrested at 4:42 a.m. at Houghton Avenue and Blackburn Avenue. He was booked on the additional charge of receiving known stolen property: less than $400. His bail was set at $ 12,500. —Julie Zeeb Service brings Daily News to the blind By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Readers interested in the top headlines of daily newspapers and magazines who cannot read a regular paper have hope with a pro- gram aimed at serving the blind. A service through the National Federation of the Blind provides the blind and those with other physical disabili- ties a chance to stay on top of the latest infor- mation that is easily available to the sighted. More and more papers are beginning to understand that blind and visually impaired individuals, just as the sighted, need to have access to their local papers, according to the National Federation of the Blind. NFB-Newsline offers more than 300 daily newspapers and maga- zines, including the Daily News and other MediaNews Group papers, free to its users. Larry Stevens recent- ‘It’s a wonderful service. It means people who are prevented from reading the paper have another way to find out what’s going on. This helps level the playing field for lots of people’ ly found out about NFB- Newsline after it was recommended to him by a friend with low vision who has been using the service, Stevens said. Stevens is legally blind and serves as the Tehama County repre- sentative on the state’s Developmental Disabil- ities Board. He is enjoying the many benefits the ser- vice provides, he said. Larry Stevens “It’s a wonderful ser- vice,” Stevens said. “It means people who are prevented from reading the paper have another way to find out what’s going on. This helps level the playing field for lots of people.” While there are sev- eral different ways for users to access the ser- vice, Stevens uses the service through his phone and listens to a recording as the stories from the day’s paper are read to him. He has used other audio services to read documents, but the NFB-Newsline program is much better than the other services, he said. The voices of the reader are much more likable, and he likes that he can access archived papers. Features such as the ability to control the speed of the reading, skip between stories or sections of the paper and a dictionary are helpful. To qualify for the free service, a person must be blind, visually impaired or physically disabled, according to the NFB-Newsline web- site. Those interested in the service, can sign up at www.nfbnewsline.org or call 866-504-7300. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527-2153, Ext. 110 or by e-mail at tlor@redbluffdailynews. com.