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PHOTOSBYANDREBYIK—DAILYNEWS Lynn Strom, a 4-H representative with the University of California Cooperative Extension, second from right, guides people through the Tehama County Probation Department's collaborative garden to count the number of pollinators for scientific research on Thursday. Staff members at the Tehama County office of the University of California Cooperative Extension celebrated the 100-year anniversary of the statewide program on Thursday. ByAndreByik abyik@redbluffdailynews.com @andrebyik on Twitter RED BLUFF Agriculture experts here celebrated a milestone Thursday. The University of Califor- nia Cooperative Extension, which allows growers, pro- ducers and more to tap into the knowledge andresearch of agriculture experts from the UC system, celebrated its 100-year anniversary. At Tehama County's extension office, staff members wel- comed the public to learn about the resources they offer, including livestock, irrigation and orchard re- search and programs, to 4-H and youth nutrition programs. Much of the UC Cooper- ative Extension research is done in cooperation with growers and producers throughout the state. "We get to interface with growers, the grow- ers get to interface with us," said Richard Buch- ner, county director and orchard adviser at the Te- hama County extension of- fice. "We'll have field meet- ings to show a particular pruning technique or an insect control technique, and so it's a pretty good co- operative teamwork effort between the university and the end-user." The Cooperative Ex- tension was created when President Woodrow Wil- son signed the Smith-Lever Act into law on May 8, 1914. UC COOPERATIVE EXTENSION CELEBRATING100YEARS, SCIENCE AND RESOURCES Visitors who came to celebrate the program's anniversary in Red Bluff also were able to aid in a day of UC scientific research throughout the state. By Rich Greene rgreene@redbluffdailynews.com @richgreenenews on Twitter GERBER The driver of a three-axle truck was pro- nounced dead on scene Thursday afternoon after his truck veered off the road and slammed into a tree. The incident, which was reported at 2:49 p.m., shut down southbound traffic on State Route 99W at Chard Avenue. The truck went off the northbound lane on the 9300 block of State Route 99W and into a tree that stands roadside. Several branches of the tree were damaged and power lines were hit, although no wires were down. The California Highway Patrol website said the vehicle possibly had a blown tire when it hit the ditch and overturned. The truck cab was a Kenworth T2000 and had Sierra Pacific Industries markings. The truck was carrying a fully-loaded trash container. CalFire Battalion Chief Erick Puckett said the driver had perished by the time firefighters got to him. No other people or vehicles were involved in the collision. FATALITY Driverdies inGerber aftergoing offroad 6-wheeltruckwentoffState Route 99W, hitting tree By Andre Byik abyik@redbluffdailynews.com @andrebyik on Twitter RED BLUFF The Red Bluff Police Department and Te- hama County Department of Education on Monday ap- plied for a $1 million grant that could increase police presence in downtown Red Bluff and fund programs to curb crime. The City Council on Tues- day unanimously authorized the grant application to the Byrne Criminal Justice In- novation Program. The grant, according to a staff document, would jointly fund programs for the coun- ty's department of educa- tion the police department, which also hopes to hire one to two officers if the grant is awarded. The $1 million grant would fund a three-year program, which in the first year would spend $100,000 to assess the best programs to use to mit- igate crime, according to the staff document. Some programs that will be assessed include "Hot Spot Policing," which fo- cuses on restoring order in an area by making more misde- meanor arrests and employ- ing prevention strategies and social service actions. An "Adolescent Diversion Proj- ect" targets arrested youth in an area "and moves them away from formal processing in the juvenile justice system while linking them with ap- propriate, community-based services," according to the document. And other family- based and classroom-based education and intervention programs. Police Chief Paul Nanfito said during Tuesday's council meeting that the grant calls on identifying a high-crime area in the city. "And, coincidentally, we just happen to have one," Nanfito said. Out of the police depart- ment's five areas of respon- sibility, area three, essen- tially downtown Red Bluff, accounts for more than 30 percent of the city's violent crimes, and 24 percent of the city's property crimes, Nan- fito said. The area includes at least four schools and the Te- hama County Department of Education. Nanfito read an excerpt from the grant application to RED BLUFF Police seek $1M grant to curb crime Grant would jointly fund programs for county education and police Of the 10 counties in the far northern region of California, Tehama County is the leader is agri- cultural sales with $240 million in sales reported for 2012. Only two other counties are close with Siski- you reporting $223 million and Mendocino show- ing $149 million. For Tehama County this repre- sented a huge jump in sales with a 68.5 percent in- crease in the past five years. These are but a few of the findings reported in the 2012 Agricultural Census which was released on May 2 by the US Department of Agriculture. "Once every five years, farmers, ranchers and growers have the unique opportunity to let the world know how U.S. agriculture is changing, what is staying the same, what's working and what we can do differently," said Dr. Cynthia Clark, the head of USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, which administered the survey. In comparing the 2007 and 2012 Census reports for Tehama County, the amount of land in Tehama County farms has increased nearly 16 percent, to AGRICULTURE Te ha ma l ea ds NorCal in sales Classifieds......B6 Education........A8 Puzzles............B5 Opinion............A4 Lifestyles........A5 Sports.............. B1 Index............... ## INDEX A Red Bluff High School graduate has been promoted to master sergeant. Read about his career. PAGEA3 COMMUNITY RedBluffgraduate promoted in military A full slate of local track and field Wednesday saw Corning defeat visiting Lassen and Red Bluff vs Enterprise. PAGE B1 SPORTS Corning Lady Cardinals track beats Lassen Bill would require electron- ics manufacturers to install switch-off function in phones in response to the s. PAGE A6 SACRAMENTO Smartphone 'kill switch' advances Rebels defy Moscow's plea for separatist referendum delay as tensions rise ahead of Sunday's vote. PAGE B4 WORLD Insurgents to hold vote in east Ukraine RICH GREENE — DAILY NEWS The driver of a truck died around 3p.m. Thursday a ernoon when the truck went off State Route 99W and into a tree about a quarter-mile south of Chard Avenue in Gerber. 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