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front tire, were strewn about the creek bed, and the northbound I-5 right lane was closed for about three hours. Officials said the driver was alert, walking and ini - tially declined medical at- tention. She was later treated and transported from the scene by ambu- lance after complaining of pains. Her passenger, who described himself as the driver's husband but de - clined to give his name, ap- peared to have suffered a cut to his head but other- wise was OK. He also said he was allergic to bees. While officers at the scene did not yet rule out drugs or alcohol as factors in the crash, no arrests were made at the scene. "Thankfully no one was seriously injured," Alamo said. He added: "It comes back to the distracted driv - ing. It's very important to retain attention and focus on the task at hand, which is safely negotiating the ve - hicle on the highway." Crash From Page 1 has had contact with a per- son with pertussis is en- couraged to contact his or her health care provider. Early diagnosis and treat- ment may reduce the se- verity of symptoms and shorten the contagious pe- riod. Antibiotics should be given to all household and other close contacts to pre- vent the spread of disease. To prevent pertussis, residents should ask their health care provider to re - view immunization records for the whole family to de- termine whether pertussis vaccination is needed and appropriate; check with their health care provider to determine whether a family member's cough could be caused by pertus - sis; new and expectant par- ents, as well as other family members and care provid- ers around infants, should be vaccinated against per- tussis; cover coughs and sneezes; wash hands thor- oughly and often; call the Public Health if you are in contact with infants. Pertussis From Page 1 cisco Bay. It was the first full day of a 10-week relief effort that is the largest fish trucking op - eration California has ever seen. "This is a Herculean ef- fort to try to stave off a fish- ery disaster in 2016 when these fish are expected to return to the rivers," said Stafford Lehr, f isheries branch chief of the state De - partment of Fish and Wild- life. "We want to jump-start these young fish past the trouble spots and give them a better chance to survive." The fish convoys are the biggest of many state and federal efforts around Cal - ifornia this year to protect salmon, steelhead, trout and other fish imperiled by low flows in rivers, streams and creeks. In a hatchery near Kes - wick Dam on the upper Sac- ramento River, equipment to cool water has been ex- panded to protect winter- run chinook salmon from the hotter weather ahead. Crews on parts of the Upper Sacramento are manually netting some fish stranded in ponds and walk - ing them short distances and dropping them in the main river stem. Biologists are watching fish runs on several rivers closely to decide if govern - ment should intervene and start rearing them in hatch- eries. "The trucking operation is about helping hatchery fish, but we are very care - fully watching the condi- tion of wild fish," said How- ard Brown, a National Ma- rine Fisheries biologist. "It is a difficult year and there are many competing needs for water." Hundreds of sa lmon smolts died this winter due to lack of water in the Pajaro River, which empties into the ocean near Watsonville. "We're really worried about what the summer's going to look like" for Cen - tral Coast coho, said Jon Ambrose, a biologist with the National Marine Fish- eries Service. T he C ent r a l Va l ley salmon runs are the largest contributors to California's $1.4 billion a year salmon fishing industry. The trucking operations, biologists believe, will dra - matically improve the hatch- ery salmon's survival rate. The state has done some salmon trucking in previ- ous years, but this is the first year that the federal Cole- man hatchery and the four state hatcheries in the Cen- tral Valley have shipped all their young salmon by truck into the Delta. In normal years, all the Coleman hatchery fish and some of the state's hatch - lings would be released into the nearby river to swim out toward the ocean. This ap- proach makes the salmon familiar with the scent and cues from local water and improves their odds of find - ing their way back to spawn as adults. The fish trucked out to Rio Vista may have a hard time finding their way back in three years. "Their GPS system has been thrown out of kilter" by the move, said Lehr. But the big move, which is costi n g more th a n $800,000, may be the best shot at survival of these baby salmon from the Cen - tral Valley, biologists said. On their arrival in Rio Vista, the smolts were piped and splashed into large holding pens for an hour's adjustment period before their release into the Sacramento River and the start of their journey to the San Francisco Bay and the ocean. Salmon From Page 1 received by Red Bluff Ele- mentary during his tenure there. At Red Bluff he received recognition by the Califor - nia Department of Educa- tion for gains in student achievement five consecu- tive years. He has been awarded Te- hama County Administra- tor of the Year three times, including this year. Outside of Education Al- len is active through mem- bership on the Salvation Army board, Expect More Tehama and coordinates Red Bluff Rotary's Liter- acy Project. Allen is married with five children. Harley North Harley North has been involved in education since 1974 when he went to Aus- tralia as a high school teacher. He returned to Califor- nia and spent 35 years in Tehama County, the last 28 serving as Evergreen Union School District Su - perintendant. North said during that time the district was widely recognized as one of the highest performing school districts in northern Cali - fornia. North said he decided to run for county superinten- dent because he believes these are extraordinary times in public education that demand strong, expe - rienced leadership. "I have developed the ac- tive, hands-on leadership skills needed to make the Tehama County Depart- ment of Education an effec- tive and dynamic resource for the 14 school districts in Tehama County," he said. North said the adoption of Common Core Curric - ulum is the biggest chal- lenge facing the county in the next four years and will require proven and experi- enced leadership. "We must focus on cre- ating an effective learning culture that is the key to student learning," he said. North said his career has been devoted to devel - oping systems that support student learning and high achievement. "I will ensure that the County Superintendent's mandate to act as the fiscal overseer for local districts is carried out in the most col - laborative and cooperative manner possible," he said. Election From Page 1 Weber: Ralph Weber, 87, of Red Bluff died Tuesday, March 25 at Copper Ridge Care Center in Redding. Ar- rangements are under the direction of Allen & Dahl Funeral Chapel. Published Friday, March 28, 2014 in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. Death notices must be provided by mortuaries to the news department, are published at no charge, and feature only specific basic information about the de - ceased. Paid obituaries are placed through the Classified advertising department. Paid obituaries may be placed by mortuaries or by families of the deceased and include online publication linked to the newspaper's website. Paid obituaries may be o f an y len gt h, m ay r un multiple days and offer wide latitude of content, including photos. Death notices RiCh PeDRoNCelli — The AssoCiATeD PRess This Aug. 16, 2012 file photo shows state sen. leland Yee, D-san Francisco, talking with Assembly members regarding a youth offenders program at the Capitol in sacramento. At right is sen. Juan Vargas, D-san Diego. By Juliet Williams The Associated Press sacr a m e n to » S o fa r in 2014, each month has brought news of another ar- rest or conviction of a Demo- cratic California state sena- tor. The latest was Wednes- day's arrest of Sen. Leland Yee of San Francisco on federal corruption charges, news that roiled the capital and led one of Yee's oppo - nents in the race for secre- tary of state to call the Leg- islature a "corrupt institu- tion." Democrats hold large ma- jorities in both chambers of the Legislature and should be flying into election sea- son this year, easily pass- ing legislation and setting the agenda after taming California's busted budgets and turning their Republi - can rivals into a "supermi- nority" in the nation's most populous state. But now their dominance could be dampened by new revelations of dirty deal- ings by Democrats in the state Senate. One sena- tor was convicted of voter fraud and perjury, and two others face federal charges for alleged misdeeds that include accepting large fi - nancial bribes for friends and family in exchange for legislation and orchestrat- ing weapons and drug traf- ficking to help pay off cam- paign debts. Yee, who sometimes chal- lenged Democratic leaders, had been best known pub- licly for his efforts to pro- mote government trans- parency and public records, for which he was celebrated just last week by the Soci- ety of Professional Journal- ists. He also introduced sev- eral bills last year to restrict gun possession. The federal affidavit unsealed Wednes- day accuses Yee of conspir- acy to deal firearms without a license and to illegally im- port firearms, among other allegations. Republicans, who have been struggling to regain their political footing, have sought to capitalize on the wave of criminal charges as a way to undo Democrats' dominance in the Legisla - ture. Republicans have re- peatedly tried to expel Sen. Rod Wright of Inglewood af- ter he was convicted of per- jury and voter fraud in Jan- uary for lying about his le- gal residence in Los Angeles County. Democratic leaders have blocked those efforts, though. Sen. Joel Anderson, a Re - publican from Alpine who has led the expulsion efforts, blamed Democratic leaders for creating a culture of tol - erance for illegal activity. "If you refuse to act and you shirk your responsibil- ity to act, is it a surprise that senators don't take ethics as seriously as they should?" Anderson said. John Burton, chairman of the California Democratic Party, said he does not think voters will hold all Demo - crats accountable for the ac- tions of three rogue opera- tors, but he said the allega- tions are worrisome. "It's a concern, one, be- cause they're all Demo- crats, but more than that, it's a concern for the insti- tution that I was honored to not just serve in but to lead, and nothing even close to that happened under that membership," said Bur - ton, who was Senate Presi- dent Pro Tem from 1998 un- til 2004. "But you just don't know." Senate Minority Leader Bob Huff, R-Diamond Bar, agreed that the actions re - flect poorly on lawmakers of both parties. "We all get painted in the same brush," he said. "The problem is manifesting it - self, but people hold us all to the same standards." Scandals plague California capital Dems succumb to 'dirty dealings' sacramento The Associated Press Los aLgoDones, mexico » Colorado River water has begun pouring over a bar- ren delta in northwest Mex- ico, the result of a landmark bi-national agreement being celebrated Thursday. The gush of water in Mex - ico is an effort to revive the last 70-mile stretch of the river into the Sea of Cortez. The delta dried up decades ago. Conservationists hope the water will bring back trees, wildlife and aquatic life that were once abundant in the region when it was teeming with water decades ago. The river's most south - ern dam — Mexico's More- los Dam, near Yuma, Ariz. — on Sunday began unleash- ing 105,392 acre-feet of water, enough to supply more than 200,000 homes for a year. The one-time release is ex - pected to last until May 18. The flow was expected to intensify and reach a peak Thursday of an additional 4,200 cubic feet per second. "You just see visually quite clearly a much larger vol - ume of water in the river and there's quite a buzz about it," said Terry Fulp, regional di- rector of the Lower Colorado Region for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Farms, businesses and homes in seven U.S. states — Arizona, California, Colo - rado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming — rely on the Colorado River, as do the Mexican states of Baja Cali - fornia and Sonora. In 2012, the two countries that share the river water agreed on ways to share the pain of droughts and bounty of wet years, a major amend - ment to a 1944 treaty. Part of that agreement called for res- toration of the Colorado River delta. "Today we are witnessing what appears to be a para - digm shift in the way we man- age water," said Jennifer Pitt, director of the Colorado River Project, who helped negotiate the one-time flood. "Histori - cally in the West, everyone has approached water with an 'us against them' mental- ity. Now we're talking about how we can share water, con- serve water, and invest in new water projects and the health of the river itself. It's truly refreshing." The release of water was aided through water conser - vation projects by the U.S. and Mexico, according to the International Boundary and Water Commission.Experts will monitor the flood to de - termine its effects on the en- vironment. southWest Co lor ad o Ri ve r be gi ns flooding Mexican delta GReGoRY Bull — The AssoCiATeD PRess Abelardo Martinez stands in a blocked duct which leads water to his fields near Colonia Coahuila, Mexico, through a maze of canals stemming off the Colorado River. Smog Check (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) 527-9841 • 195 S. Main St. starting at $ 29 95 + $ 8 25 certificate SERVICES AT LOWER PRICES All makes and models. We perform dealer recommened 30K, 60K, 90K Members Welcome Donald Richard Berg Donald Richard Berg went to be with the Lord on March 13, 2014 at the age of 49. 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