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DavidNathanSimmons Date of Birth: 02/05/89 Physical Description: 5-10, 185 lbs., brown hair and brown eyes. Wanted for: Two felony warrants, Robbery Bail $315,000, Parole Viola- tion No Bail CalltheTehamaCountyDistrictAttor- ney Bureau of Investigation at 530 529- 3590.All callers may remain confidential. MOSTWANTED DavidNathanSimmons Bring your family and friends to dinner at Apple- bee's Restaurant on Ante- lope Boulevard in Red Bluff between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, and Applebee's will donate 15 percent of the bill to sup- port the domestic violence shelter. You must present a voucher at the time of order for Alternatives to Violence to receive credit. Vouchers cannot be given out at the restaurant, so vouchers will be available by stopping by the ATV Business Center, 1805 Walnut St. in Red Bluff, or by calling ATV at 528-0300 or toll-free 1-800-324-6473 to receive one by mail. Alternatives to Violence hada60percentincreasein shelter bed nights last year. Please help provide life-sav- ing and essential services for women and children in Tehama County. For more information, visit www.atvrb.org. FUNDRAISER Dine to support local domestic violence shelter Simmons WEED UnitedWayofNorth- ern California is responding to the Boles Fire in Weed with onsite volunteers and two relief funds that are available for community members to donate to. "Tri Counties Bank contacted us wanting to know what they could do to help," said Wendy Zan- otelli, president and CEO of United Way of North- ern California. "We were so thankful for their gen- erous donation to start a relief fund." Tri Counties donated the first $10,000 to fund the Boles Fire Relief Fund, and encourage community members interested in sup- porting victims to stop by any branch of Tri Counties Bank to make a donation. "These are our neigh- bors, our friends and our customers," said Rick Smith, president and CEO of Tri Counties. "We want to do what we can in the short term to meet the im- mediate needs of the com- munity. And we'll be there in the days, weeks and months ahead as the com- munity rebuilds." All checks or other items should be made payable to United Way of Northern California with a note on the memo line "The Boles Fire Relief Fund." Funds will be dispersed through United Way of North- ern California to support the immediate needs of victims, including food, clothing and shelter. Do- nations are tax deductible. United Way will not hold any fees from the do- nations made the fund — 100 percent of the dona- tions will directly benefit the relief efforts. Other organizations re- sponding to the effort are accepting donations in- cluding the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, Northern Valley Catho- lic Social Service, and the Shasta Regional Commu- nity Foundation. "We are all working to- gether to coordinate ef- forts and utilize dona- tions where they are most needed," Zanotelli said. "In addition, several of our corporate partners are ready to deploy their employees as volunteers as the rebuild efforts begin." For more information, call Zanotelli at (530) 241- 7521, log on to www.nor- calunitedway.org or email info@norcalunitedway.org. FIRE Vo lu nt ee rs , gr ou ps respond to Boles Fire Asecondjointpowersau- thority comprised of only the county and the city of Red Bluff is known as the Landfill Management Agency. It was formed to manage and oversee the landfill. Millersaidwhileeachau- thority has different func- tions, many of their inter- ests overlap. Closure of the Phase 1 landfill for instance is something both are inter- ested in. Miller has worked on a new agency structure and bylaws that have been sub- mitted to the separate legal counsels of each joint pow- ers authority. She told the Land- fill Management Agency Wednesday that it received positive reviews and she was going to show it to city managers to see whether it was something they would support. Miller said one of the more difficult aspects a combined joint powers au- thority would have to ad- dress is how to deal with representation on the new committee. The cities of Corning and Tehamadonotowntheland- fill, but the city of Red Bluff and Tehama County do. "We need to figure out a representation that gives the city of Corning the city of Tehama representation, but also reflects the own- ership of the landfill," she said. Miller said she doesn't anticipate the consolida- tion to be a quick process, but hopes it can by in effect as of July 1, 2015. If it is, the new author- ity would only have to pay for one audit, instead of the two nearly duplicate audits that have been done. Landfill FROM PAGE 1 amend the project license for the final phase of resto- ration project work. Despite the loss of nearly one-third of the hydroelec- tricoutputatitsBattleCreek hydro facility, in a press re- lease PG&E says it was an early and eager supporter of the project as the com- pany recognized the tre- mendous environmental benefit the project would have for threatened and en- dangered anadromous fish, thosethatbeginlifeinfresh- water creeks and live part of their lives in the ocean. In 1999, a Memoran- dum of Understanding be- tween PG&E, the Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Na- tional Marine Fisheries Ser- vice and the California De- partment of Fish and Wild- life was signed committing each to the restoration proj- ect. In addition, numerous stakeholders, including the Greater Battle Creek Wa- tershed Working Group and Battle Creek Water- shed Conservancy, as well as landowners and funding contributors, have played an important role in mov- ing the project forward. Information about the Restoration Project can be found on the Bureau of Rec- lamation's website at usbr. gov/mp/battlecreek. Meeting FROM PAGE 1 It's one of many lessons the wood shop is trying to teach. The shop has a refrigera- torandsnackspacewhereof- fenders take what they need, mark down what they took and pay through the honor system. "We're going to get them back to their morals, not steal anything," Shaffer said. Shaffer said the amount of time he has with each of- fender varies, but he is made aware when their sentence is coming to an end. At that point he ramps up one key discussion with the individ- ual. "I'm constantly on these guys about getting a job." Shaffer said in the first eight months of the pro- gram two guys found full- time employment and three more had least landed part- time jobs. Some of those working for Shaffer said they hope the county can find ways to ex- pand its offerings to skills in- cluding electrical work and welding. They said the Probation Departmenthasbeenhelpful in such things as transporta- tion through its repaired bi- cycle program, but there are still things they need help with to transition back to so- ciety, including just plain old working shoes. One offender said clothes would be helpful, as he didn't fit into his previous clothes when he was released. Muench says the ultimate measure of success for the county is when an offender not only re-enters the com- munity, but becomes a tax- payer. Muench said the county has received far more than itrealizedwhenitcontracted with Shaffer. "He's a guy with em- pathy, a guy who actually cares about his community," Muench said. That also is something Muench is trying to do through the programs. Theoffendersatthewoods hop work solely on projects for the county, schools and non-profits. When the Red Bluff Ki- wanis Club needed wood box kits to be made for its annual summer camp craft project, Superior Judge Matt McG- lynn passed along the proj- ect to the wood shop. For the next few weeks more than 100 box kits were made. Projects have also been madefortheTehamaCounty Department of Education, theelectionsdepartmentand the Boy Scouts. Muench hopes besides us- ing the labor to give back to the community, that the of- fenders find pride in what they're doing. The candy counter, Muench points out could be around for the next 100 years at the State Theatre. He hopes those who worked on it take away some self-es- teem and will be prompted to show their family for years to come what they helped build. "It's going to be such an eye-opener and such a change," Vine said of the candy counter's potential impact to the inside of the theater. Adjectives that also apply to the program that helped build it. Woodwork FROM PAGE 1 also secured federal grants to fight each of them. A man with a lengthy criminal history has been charged with deliberately starting a Northern Califor- nia wildfire that has shown explosive growth and driven nearly 2,800 people from their homes, authorities said Thursday. Wayne Allen Huntsman, 37,wasarrestedlateWednes- dayinPlacervilleandbooked into El Dorado County Jail, where he was being held on $10 million bail. Huntsman faces a forest- land arson charge, along with a special allegation of arson with aggravating fac- tors because the blaze east of Sacramento put a dozen firefighters in serious dan- ger, forcing them to deploy their fire shields. They all es- caped unharmed. The wind-whipped fire burned through 111 square miles and was 5 percent con- tained, according to Califor- nia Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. It closed part of a highway that runs to the Nevada state line near Lake Tahoe. District Attorney Vern Pierson declined to say what led investigators to Hunts- man, who was scheduled to be arraigned Friday. He also would not comment on a possible motive, saying the case was ongoing. Investi- gators were in contact with Hunstman before his arrest. "It's something that's evolving at this point," Pier- son said of the investigation. He did not know whether Huntsman had an attorney. Huntsman's sister, Tami Criswell, said she doubts her brother started the fire, but if he did, it wasn't on purpose. Criswell said she and her brother were raised in Santa Cruz and often camped. She said her brother, who has worked in construction and private se- curity, loves being in the for- est and always was cautious with campfires. "He's a really good guy," Criswell said. "He would never do anything intention- ally to hurt anybody." Yet, Santa Cruz authori- ties have a $5,000 warrant out for Huntsman stemming from a Feb. 27, 2013, arrest for resisting or obstructing a public officer. Officials said he has failed to show up for several court dates. His arrest record in Santa Cruz dates back to 1996, ac- cording to court records. That year he was convicted of tampering with a vehicle, auto theft, driving under the influence,grandtheftandas- sault with a deadly weapon, which resulted in a three- year sentence. He was sent to San Quentin State Prison. In 2003, he was convicted in Plumas County of receiv- ing stolen property, the new complaint says. The blaze, which started Saturday, has been fueled by heavy timber and grass that is extremely dry because of California's third straight year of drought. It is costing $5 million a day to fight, Cal Fire officials said. "It is extreme fire behav- ior," said Michelle Eidam, a captain with the Sacra- mento fire department who was helping with the blaze. "All bets are off right now be- cause this fire is so volatile." Many of the 12,000 threat- ened homes were in Pollock Pines, 60 miles east of Sacra- mento. Though the fire grew substantiallylateWednesday and into the night, it burned mostly into wilderness land in the El Dorado National Forest away from the town, according to Cal Fire. Fire officials said there were no reports of damaged ordestroyedhomes.Still,res- idents at an evacuation cen- ter said they were worried. "We've been doing a lot of praying," said Sally Dykstra, who lives in a home in the middle of the fire area with her husband, Garry, 74, and her daughter, Stacie, 46. Fire FROM PAGE 1 By Tom Verdin The Associated Press SACRAMENTO California homeowners will begin get- ting clearer explanations of how earthquake insurance works and what it covers un- der legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown that is intended to boost lackluster participa- tion in the program. The governor announced signing AB2064 by Assem- blyman Ken Cooley, D-Ran- cho Cordova, on Thursday. Cooley's bill seeks to boost participation in Cal- ifornia's earthquake insur- ance program, which is of- fered through the Califor- nia Earthquake Authority. Just 10 percent of homeown- ers have such a policy. The rate was even lower, about 6 percent, for homeown- ers affected by last month's 6.0-magnitude Napa Valley quake, said Glenn Pomeroy, the authority's chief execu- tive. "It made me heartsick to drive around Napa ... and re- alize that many of them did not have earthquake insur- ance," he said. "We have our work cut out for us, to get out the word that insurance coverage is not as restrictive as many people think." The legislation, which takes effect in 2016, requires that the offer of earthquake policies insurers must send to homeowners be written in plain language that is eas- ily understood. It also requires insurers to send homeowners mar- keting materials each year that explain the insurance and the role of the Califor- nia Earthquake Authority, a state agency that provides policies sold through private insurance companies. One reason participa- tion is so low is the cost of premiums and the high de- ductibles before the insur- ance kicks in, a turn-off for many homeowners who al- ready are paying for general homeowner's insurance. Pomeroy said about 25 percent to 30 percent of California homeowners had earthquake insurance before the 1994 Northridge quake, which caused $25 bil- lion in damage. Insurance rates soared afterward. Cooley said he hopes the changes required under his bill lead to more homeown- ers understanding the cov- erage and ultimately buying policies. Property owners whose homes suffer major damage would have to pay for repairs out of pocket if they don't have earthquake insurance, something most people can't afford, he said. "It is a catastrophic cov- erage," Cooley said. "But if you are exposed to the risk of earthquake, it's still valu- able." Another provision of his bill raises the amount of money available for the Cal- ifornia Earthquake Author- ity's operations, from 3 per- cent of policy premiums to 6 percent. Cooley said the change is needed because so few people are buying policies, which in turn af- fects the authority's operat- ing budget. In other bill action an- nounced Thursday, the gov- ernor: — Signed AB2104 by Democratic Assembly- woman Lorena Gonzalez of San Diego, which pro- hibits homeowners as- sociations from banning drought-resistant land- scaping to save water. — Signed AB1147 by three Democratic law- makers, which allows lo- cal governments to revoke the license of any massage parlor that violates the law. It is intended to make it harder for massage par- lors to operate as fronts for prostitution. — Vetoed AB2029 by Democratic Assembly- man Ken Cooley of Ran- cho Cordova, which would have required county cor- oners to urge parents and guardians whose child dies from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome to take tissue samples. Brown said it would be better to rely on coroners to use their best professional judgment. — Vetoed AB2198 by Democratic Assemblyman Marc Levine of San Ra- fael, which would have re- quired suicide prevention training for psychologists and counselors by requir- ing them to complete addi- tional coursework. Brown says he will ask the rele- vant licensing boards to evaluate the issue. SACRAMENTO Le gi sl at io n ma ke s ea rt hq ua ke insurance more understandable FRIDAY,SEPTEMBER19,2014 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A