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FRIDAY JULY 22, 2011 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 7A RED BLUFF Reader Photos All-Stars Advance SPORTS 1B Weather forecast 10A Sunny 98/66 One arrested in stabbing By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff A 19-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with Wednesday’s stabbing in the McDonald’s parking lot on Antelope Boulevard in Red Bluff. The victim, Anthony Dyer, 21, of Red Bluff was treated by Red Bluff Fire personnel and St. Elizabeth paramedics before being taken to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital for further treatment. Dyer had an encounter with the suspects the day before while with a friend who was called derogatory names for wearing a blue T-shirt, said Red Bluff Police Sgt. Michael Graham. See ONE, page 9A Man leads cops on 100 mph chase By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer At speeds of more than 100 mph, a Corning man fleeing law enforcement in an reportedly stolen vehicle drove from Red Bluff to Los Molinos before being arrested. Ryan Scott McCabe, 30, of Corning report- edly refused to pull over for Tehama County Patrol Sgt. Mark Levindofske on Berren- dos Avenue in Red Bluff, sheriff’s logs said. Driving a white 1999 Chevrolet Cavalier, McCabe drove past a stop sign at Chestnut and Berrendos avenues and headed toward Antelope Boulevard on Chestnut at about 75 miles per hour, the logs said. He contin- ued speeding through the traffic light on Antelope Boulevard, almost caus- McCabe ing a traffic collision. McCabe then led deputies and Red Bluff Police offi- cers on a chase exceed- ing 100 mph south on Highw ay 99E, the logs said. Another near-collision near Jill’s Market didn’t slow the chase. Some 20 miles down Highway 99E, the suspect turned east onto Taft Avenue in Los Molinos, the logs said. He turned south onto Shasta Boule- vard and jumped out of the vehicle. Running into Mill Creek, deputies chased him for about three min- utes before detaining him at 2 a.m., the logs said. Medical personnel were called in for an eval- uation at 2:03 a.m., the See CHASE, page 9A By CHIP THOMPSON DN editor MANTON — After a decade of planning and two years of construc- tion, a project to improve fish movement and habitat in Battle Creek is approaching the halfway point. During a media tour Thursday, representatives from Pacific Gas and Electric, which operates the dams, and the Bureau of Reclama- tion, which is overseeing the pro- ject, offered an up-close update on construction at two of the dam sites —Feeder Dam and Eagle Canyon Dam. A cooperative effort of PG&E and the federal government, which is funding the project, the goal is to remove impediments to migrating salmon and steelhead that histori- cally spawned in the creek. Of the eight dams on the creek, one — Wildcat Dam — has been removed and four others are slated to be removed. The remaining three, Feeder and Eagle Canyon on the North Fork and one on the South Fork, will continue to divert water to the Inskip power generation station. Each is being modified with improved fish ladders and installa- tion of fish screens to help migrat- ing fish navigate the dam, said John Pospishil, who is overseeing the project for the Bureau of Reclama- tion. PG&E will lose about 30 percent of its power generating capability from the creek by the project’s completion, said Michael Strawn, a generation supervisor for PG&E. The creek has produced 231 GWh, which will be reduced to 162 GWh. That amount of power equates to the electricity used by more than 10,000 homes, according to PG&E documents. Battle Creek has been, and remains, a valuable source of renewable energy for PG&E, said Paul Moreno, a public relations rep- resentative for PG&E. Because the creek is fed by natural springs as well as snow melt, it is a more con- sistent source of power than many others in the state. The payoff, Moreno said, is the long-term benefit to the salmon and steelhead fisheries. Pospishil said PG&E was per- Holding off the final chapter for LM library By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Passionate about keep- ing the Los Molinos branch library open, more than 20 people met with District 5 Supervisor Ron Warner and County Librarian Jessica Hudson in an open forum Wednesday morning. The informational meet- ing was a chance for people to voice opinions about the closing of the library, which was announced during a preliminary budget hearing with the Board of Supervi- sors, June 29. The forum came a day after some spoke out against the closure during the regu- lar Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday. The board had consid- ered a motion to send a let- ter to the library’s landlord, officially confirming that the space the library is in would be vacant by Aug. 31. After discussion, the board withdrew the motion and postponed it for a week. Sitting between shelves ‘All of us are here because libraries are special places for us. It would be tragic to see it close’ of children’s books over a brightly-colored, dragon carpet at the Los Molinos Library Wednesday, people took turns asking questions and coming up with ideas on what to do about the library. Superintendent Charles Ward “I thought it was a good Emotions ranged from hostility to disappointment. Participants in the forum included members of the Friends of the Library groups, Los Molinos resi- dents and Charles Ward, Los Molinos School Dis- trict Superintendent. Some sympathized with the county’s dilemma and budget snares. Others fault- ed Hudson and County Administrator Bill Good- win, saying the decision to close the branch was made without talking to the peo- ple of Los Molinos. After the meeting, Warn- 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 er was pleased with the response. meeting,” Warner said. “There was a lot of good ideas and things to look at.” Some of the ideas at the forum included looking into new grants, not buying any new books, getting rid of electronic books, taking away time from the Red Bluff library and coming up with different ways to raise money. All of the ideas had one message in common: “Wait!” Advocates pleaded with Hudson and Warner to give the group time to explore options. A few people sug- gested that the library keep the lease open month to month until a solution could be found and money raised. Barbara Whitten, a member of the Los Molinos Women’s Club, which she said helped establish the library more than 20 years ago, urged taking at least one more month to look into possibilities to keep the doors open. “I believe there is enough interest to do it,” Whitten said. “Sometimes we need a wake up call.” Warner wants to keep the library open, he said. After the meeting, he began mak- ing calls to find out legally what could be done and what other possibilities exist. One of the recurring sug- gestions was to move the library into a county-owned building, such as the Los Molinos senior center, or to find another place with reduced or low rent. Warner is looking into some of the locations sug- gested, he said. Concerns emerged about what closing the library may mean to the Los Moli- nos community. Ward described the changes to the area’s school libraries. The high school library is being “reconceptualized,” he said. It will be a learning lab where students may take classes on computers. Some See LIBRARY, page 9A DAILYNEWS Half the battle TEHAMACOUNTY DAILY 50¢ TH 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 Watkins Daily News photo by Chip Thompson John Pospishil, of the Bureau of Reclamation, looks out Thursday over the nearly completed modi- fications to the Feeder Dam, the furthest upstream of eight dams on Battle Creek. suaded to partner in the project, but did not elaborate. In addition to removing and modifying the eight dams, a fish barrier is being added to Asbury Dam to prevent salmon and steel- head, which carry diseases harmful to trout, from traveling up Baldwin Creek, which hosts a trout farm, Pospishil said. Phase 1A of the project, which includes modifications to Feeder and Eagle Canyon dams on the North Fork, began in April and is expected to be completed in the fall. The next step, which has yet to be scheduled, will include the Eagle Canyon Canal pipeline, according to PG&E documents. Wildcat Dam was removed in August 2010 and completion at that site is expected in the fall. The fish barrier on Asbury Dam is scheduled to begin construction in early 2012 and take less than a year to complete. The entire project, one of the largest cold-water salmon and steel- head restoration efforts in North America, is expected to be complet- ed in 2014. State borrowing $5B ahead of US debt deadline SACRAMENTO (AP) — California plans to borrow about $5 billion from private investors next week to protect itself in case the federal gov- ernment defaults on its debt, the state treasurer’s office announced Thurs- day. State Treasurer Bill Lockyer said he has asked a select group of banks, credit unions and invest- ment funds for bids Tues- day on private loans to help the state avoid a cash shortage. Lockyer, a Democrat, said the state needs to act in case talks between Republicans and Democ- rats in Washington, D.C., remain at an impasse. That could force the fed- eral government to default on loan obliga- tions and shortchange states on health care and education funding. ‘‘We will accept and award bids on July 26,’’ said Lockyer’s spokesman, Tom Dress- lar. ‘‘If the president and Congress reach an agree- ment to raise the debt ceiling before we award the bids, we could pull the plug on the sale.’’ The loan is scheduled for one week before the federal government faces default unless a deal is reached to extend the government’s borrowing authority. The treasurer’s office is taking the precaution because it’s unclear See DEBT, page 9A TEHAMA COUNTY GLASS MOULE’S SUNSCREENS Qualify for energy rebates. Call us for details. 515 Sycamore St. 529-0260