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By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter CoRninG » A Corning man who had been pulled over for not wearing his seat belt, ended his encounter with the Corning Police Depart - ment facing two felony and three misdemeanor charges. Along the way 26 -year-old Emanuel Armando Cervantes broke a window out of one police vehicle, kicked officers and spit on his eventual transporting officer to the point that a spit hood device had to be placed over his head. Shortly before 2 p.m. Wednes - day a Corning police off icer stopped Cervantes, who was driv- ing a pickup truck without wear- ing his seat belt on the 1800 block of State Route 99W near Fig Lane, according to a department press release. Cervantes reportedly told the CRime Spitting over seat-belt stop lands 1 in jail Climate change, more users, regulations among reasons listed as issues to watch By Andre Byik sports@redbluffdailynews.com @TehamaSports on Twitter ReD BLUFF » Groundwater depen- dency in the North State, because of population, climate change, and environmental regulations, is likely to increase, and so to could groundwater impairments, an en - vironmental scientist with the state's Department of Water Re- sources said Thursday. Perry Lebeouf, who works out of the Northern Region Office in Red Bluff, gave a presentation at the Farm Bureau on Northern Cal - ifornia's water quality. The ques- tion posed at the Sacramento River Discovery Center's evening pro- gram talk was, "How do we know our water is safe?" Lebeouf said his office covers much of the North State from Ar - buckle on north to the borders — state to state. His presentation gave a peek into the behind-the- scenes work his office and labo - ratories in Sacramento conduct on a daily basis. He said his office handles about 130 surface water quality monitoring stations and conducts analysis on rivers and streams, to name a few things. "We've sampled pretty much ev - ery lake in the North State at one time or another," Lebeouf said. He added that the region's sur- face water quality is "really, very good." Groundwater concerns, how- ever, are a different story. Such impairments as nitrates, salinity accumulation, arsenic and boron are the biggest problems found in groundwater throughout the North State, Lebeouf said. He added that part of the reason arsenic, a problem that's observed noRth stAte Groundwater quality concerns By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter Los moLinos » "Mommy, they gave us a tree!" When the school day ended Thursday at Los Molinos Ele - mentary School more than one student rushed to their waiting parent to show them what they had just received. Each student took home with them a conifer seedling after at - tending an assembly by the Te- hama County Arbor Day Com- mittee to celebrate California's Arbor Week. Similar assemblies have been held across Tehama County in the recent days. By March 19, the committee estimates about 6,300 students from kindergar - ten through eighth grade will have heard the presentation about how trees grow from a local professional forester and take home a seedling donated by Sierra Pacific Industries. It's nothing new to Frank Barron. The chief forester for Crain Mills in Corning has been giv - ing the presentations for around 30 years. Some of the students run- ning from school with a smile and seedling in hand are run- ning to parents, who years ago were the students Barron intro- duced Arbor Day to. The first Arbor Day was held April 10, 1872, in Nebraska. J. Sterling Morton, a jour - nalist from Detroit who had moved to the state decades ear- lier, began raising awareness ARBoR Week Planting SeedS in young mindS Los Molinos Elementary students receive trees, learn awareness photos by Rich GReene – Daily news crain Mills chief forester Frank barron speaks with students at los Molinos elementary school thursday as part of arbor Day events. los Molinos elementary kindergartner aaliyah Marie Vanderlip runs to her mother to show her the seedling she received. Online: learn more about arbor Day at arbOrday.Org. community ..... a3 education........a4 opinion ............ a6 obituaries ....... a7 sports.............. b1 classified ........b4 index ............... ## inDeX Missoula children's theatre production of "the secret Garden" will be saturday at the state theatre. PagE a3 mUsiCAL 'Secret Garden' has two performances Saturday tehama county cattlewomen will hold the beef ambassador contest sunday at the Farm bureau on sale lane. PagE a5 CAttLeWomen Beef ambassadors to be selected Sunday two groups in tehama county are offering scholarships to college for graduating stu- dents. PagE a4 sChoLARships Cash available for students for college By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter ReD BLUFF » The Tehama County Sheriff's Department is searching for a 24-year-old high-risk sex of- fender who removed his ankle mon- itor in late February. Robert Anthony Jolivette Jr. is about 5 feet, 7 inches tall and weighs around 130 pounds. He has black hair and brown eyes and a ta tto o on h is f ac e of a Japanese sym - bol for "loyalty." On Feb. 24 at 11:07 p.m. deputies responded to the Antelope area of Red Bluff to assist Red Bluff Parole regarding a master tamper alarm. pUBLiC sAFety deputies searching for sex offender Man called 'high-risk' removed ankle monitor Jolivette tRees » pAGe 7 seARChinG » pAGe 7 spittinG » pAGe 7 satellite signals from the jet indicate it was still airborne hundreds of miles aer first reported missing. PagE b6 eAst AsiA New twist in missing Malaysian plane case WAteR » pAGe 7 » redbluffdailynews.com Friday, march 14, 2014 50 cents FacebooK.coM/RbDailynews twitteR.coM/ReDblUFFnews 7 58551 69001 9 Volume 129, issue 81 Web bonus » soldiers to be honored. redbluffdailynews.com tennis Spartans fall to Enterprise sports » B1 RAnCho tehAmA Students help at walnut nursery education » A4 FoReCAst High: 75 Low: 45 » a8 Grow? Ranch or ride? Read about local and national Ag, rural, ranch and rodeo news and commentary. VISIT REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM/ RODEO DO YOU RODEO?