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WEEKEND JULY 16-17, 2011 Breaking news at: Out of The Office USA Weekend www.redbluffdailynews.com See Inside RED BLUFF Idaho Triathlon SPORTS 1B Mostly sunny 86/60 Weather forecast 8B 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 Road to Nashville Man charge in By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Tehama County resi- dent Stacy Stone was named Shasta County Idol at the 2011 contest held at the Shasta District Fair June 15-19. “It was pretty fun,” Stone said. “I knew I’d done well, but it could have gone either way, it was that close. It was def- initely a good feeling to win.” The competition is dif- ferent from her first time when, at the age of 11, she won the whole thing. At that time, there were all different ages whereas now it’s broken up by age group, she said. Stone, who has been competing across the region for the last three years, also competed at the 2010 state level of the Colegate Country Show- down, which was held in The Dalles, Ore. That competition is the largest country music tal- ent show in the United States and moves from local to state and finally national level, with the winner getting a $100,000 recording contract in Nashville, she said. Famous competitors have included Martina McBride, Billy Ray Cyrus and LeAnn Rimes, Stone said. Stone was runner-up at one 2011 local competi- tion and didn’t make it through auditions for American Idol in Portland two weeks ago, but she isn’t giving up yet. July 21 she will be in Courtesy photo Stacy Stone, 15, of Red Bluff won Shasta County Idol held at the Shasta District Fair June 15-19. Susanville for a local Col- gate Country Showdown and shortly thereafter will be singing at two fairs in August and another in September. Stone has performed at Judge denies motion to halt Nevada wild-horse roundup RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge Friday refused to grant an emergency injunction to halt a govern- ment roundup of about 1,700 wild horses from the range in Nevada. U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben’s ruling paves the way for the feder- al Bureau of Land Manage- ment to begin removing the mustangs Saturday from public lands in the sprawl- ing Triple B Complex near the Utah line. The judge disagreed with the Colorado-based horse advocacy group Cloud Foundation, which contends the roundup would violate the 1971 Wild and Free- Roaming Horses and Bur- ros Act because the BLM failed to prove the herds there are overpopulated and causing ecological harm to public rangeland. The herds have grown by nearly 1,600 horses since the last roundup in the com- plex in July 2006, McK- ibben said, and the range and herd itself will suffer if the population continues to grow at a 20 to 25 percent annual rate without BLM intervention. ‘‘Plaintiffs have failed to show that a gather of this magnitude is not warranted in order to protect the range- land habitat and maintain a thriving, natural ecological balance,’’ the judge wrote. ‘‘The historical evidence before this court strongly supports the conclusion that the gather will benefit the horses rather than harm them, as fewer horses com- peting for limited resources will mean a healthier herd.’’ McKibben noted the high-desert complex has scarce water sources and the BLM has hauled several truckloads of water to it since June for the mustangs. Attorney Rachel Fazio, who represents the Cloud Foundation, said she was disappointed by the ruling and planned to file an emer- gency motion asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rule on the request for an emergency injunction as soon as possi- ble. ‘‘At some point I hope the judiciary will step in and enforce the law,’’ she told The Associated Press. ‘‘I’m asking them to issue a ruling as soon as Saturday or as soon after that as possible.’’ BLM spokesman Doran Sanchez said the agency planned to begin the roundup Saturday morning in the sprawling area where officials said the mustang population is five times greater than what the range can support. ‘‘Obviously, the BLM is very pleased with the deci- 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See JUDGE, page 7A the Tehama District Fair for the past few years. In September Stone turns 16 and in October is traveling to Nashville, where she has been given the chance to record some of the four songs she has finished. She will head back to Nashville again in November to continue to See ROAD, page 7A vodka arson A 30-year-old Los Molinos man who reportedly tried to ignite a bedroom he had doused with vodka Tuesday evening was booked at the Tehama County Jail Wednes- day. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Jimmy Michael Hames, 30, after responding to a disturbance call on Grant Street in Los Molinos, a sheriff’s press release said. A 30-year-old woman who lived there reported that Hames had come inside and poured vodka on her bed and curtains, the release said. Hames report- edly believed that someone stole Hames See ARSON, page 7A Three busted for pounds of meth By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer California Highway Patrol officers recovered more than two pounds of methamphetamine and arrested three people Thursday evening after a routine traffic stop on Interstate 5. Officer Todd Newman, with his K-9 patrol unit, pulled over a 2007 GMC Canyon pickup with a crew cab when the driver failed to move to the left for an emergency vehicle, he said. The vehicle was headed northbound on Interstate 5 north of Sour Grass Road. When the two passen- gers acted suspiciously and they didn’t know who the registered owner of the vehicle was, Newman took his K-9 to sniff out- side the vehicle for an open-air search, he said. The dog indicated a smell near the rear driver’s side door of the truck. Officers recovered 2 1/2 pounds of metham- phetamine near the rear seat of the vehicle, New- man said. The vehicle occupants, Nickole June Herrington, 18 of Lakehead, and Brandon Wesley Siders, 21, of Redding, were arrested at the scene. Upon further investiga- tion, the two suspects told officers that they were traveling with another man who was driving a red 1999 or 2000 Corvette, Newman said. See METH, page 7A Local limbs benefit quake victims By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A year after prosthetic limbs were collected in Tehama County for earthquake victims, Red Bluff resident Mark O’Sullivan had the chance to see them again in Haiti. O’Sullivan, who is a certified prosthetist and practice manager for Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics, 24 Antelope Blvd., in Red Bluff traveled to Haiti, arriving for a two- week stay on June 11. “Red Bluff and Tehama County sent about 20 legs to Haiti during our prosthetic limb drive,” O’Sulli- van said. “I had no idea when we collected them that I’d be going there a year later to fit some of those limbs.” O’Sullivan said it was “pretty satisfying” to be a part of Hanger’s team that rotates into the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles, Haiti. “In a lot of places it was hard to see where the earthquake damage stops and where poverty starts,” O’Sullivan said. “They really blend into each other. The rebuilding peri- od will take a generation.” Starting in February 2010, Hang- er has been sending teams with four American practioners to work alongside the Haitian medical pro- fessionals at the Hanger Clinic, located in the undamaged hospital about 60 miles from Port-au Prince. The clinic is a result of the Hang- er Ivan R. Sabel Foundation in con- junction with partners like the Hait- ian Amputee Coalition, the Harold and Kayrita Anderson Family Foundation, Physicians for Peace, the Catholic Medical Mission Board and Donald Peck Leslie, M.D. of the Shepherd Center. Staffed by experts from Hanger, Physicians for Peace and Haitian medical professionals, the clinic had treated more than 800 Haitian amputees as of May 9, a Hanger Courtesy photo Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics Practice Manager Mark O’Sullivan works with a patient at the Hanger Clinic at Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Deschapelles, Haiti in June. release said. More than 13,000 pounds of prosthetics have been shipped to Deschapelles, the release said. There have been 36 rotations with 70 prosthetists, O’Sullivan said. “The most satisfying thing for me was to be able to recognized some of the components from Tehama County in Deschapelles,” O’Sullivan said. “Seeing that come full circle component was pretty satisfying. I was lucky enough to provide services for 30 amputees while I was there.” The clinic was rapidly approach- See LIMBS, page 7A