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WEEKEND AUGUST 6-7, 2011 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com What keeps teens awake See Inside USA Weekend RED BLUFF SoCal vs Red Bluff KBLF 1490 SAT 7:30 p.m. Sunny 96/64 Weather forecast 8A 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 Toby’s fight K-9 helps end foot pursuit By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A transient man was bitten by a dog Thursday evening after he bailed out of a vehicle involved in a pursuit that start- ed in the Gerber area, leading law enforcement on a short foot chase. The man, Edward Gene McNamara, 47, is from the Red Bluff area and was a passenger in the vehicle driven by Ricky Tosh Eusted, 46, of Red Bluff. A California Highway Patrol dog had been deployed to apprehend McNamara who was taken to St. Elizabeth Com- munity Hospital for medical clearance, following the inci- dent, Tehama County Sheriff’s Lt. Dave Greer said. McNamara was found in the front yard of a Cody Drive residence where he was taken into custody without further incident. McNamara was taken to the hospital as a precaution, which is something the Sheriff’s Department would do in any incident involving a dog bite unless there were no signs of trauma, Greer said. The vehicle pursuit began at 10:09 p.m. Thursday on San Benito Avenue, near Bignonia Street, in the Gerber area. Deputies attempted to make a traffic stop on a white Cadillac sedan for multiple traffic violations, however, Eust- ed failed to stop. Instead, Sheriff’s logs show the vehicle went north on San Benito Avenue at 70 mph, running a stop sign, before it start- ed going north on Highway 99W, turning onto Ashurst. From there, the vehicle went west on Flores Avenue about 65 mph, throwing something white out the window as it neared Interstate 5, and continued toward Rawson Road with speeds up to 80 mph, according to logs. Logs show the vehicle turned, going north on Rawson Road, at speeds of 85 mph before it turned east onto Cody See K-9, page 7A Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Rose Castor holds her grandsons David and Toby Drummond, while talking with his parents Bryce and Suzanne Drummond Wednesday at the Red Bluff Farmer’s Market. Castor and her husband Doyle run a craft booth that raises funds and collects soda can tabs to be used for medical related expenses for Toby who has been diagnosed with Arnold Chiari Malformation, Type 1. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer If you visit the Red Bluff Chamber of Commerce Farmer’s Market, chances are you may have seen Rose and Doyle Castor. The Red Bluff couple runs a craft booth that also sells water and sodas to raise money for their 2-year-old grand- son, Toby Drummond. The second child of Bryce and Suzanne Drummond, Toby was origi- nally diagnosed as having Cerebral Palsy, however that diagnosis has recently changed. “His new diagnosis is something called an Arnold Chiari Malformation Type 1,” said Rose Castor said. “The four millimeter Chiari Malformation means that the portion of the brain con- trolling his central nervous system is being choked off by his spinal cord, causing paralysis, inabilities to sit up, crawl, walk, talk and sometimes eat.” The condition, which was discov- ered by Redding Opthamologist Dr. Adam Bowen because of eye fluttering when Toby was 6 months-old, also causes Toby to stop breathing some- times, Castor said. “We knew something was wrong when we realized he couldn’t hold his head up,” Castor said. “It can be fixed with major surgery, however, he has to be much worse before he can be a can- didate for the surgery.” The twisting of the spinal cord also has another affect on Toby — it causes him to have seizures, said Suzanne Drummond, who along with her hus- band was a Mercy High School gradu- ate. “He just started having bad seizures at night that wake him up,” Drummond said. In order to deal with the seizures, the Drummonds have to give Toby up to 16 ccs of Valium and Zanaflex, a medication sometimes used for post traumatic stress disorder that is a mus- cle relaxant, four times a day, she said. He also has to have Baclofen, which because of his age and size had to be specially made, taking a 4-hour con- versation between doctor and pharma- cist to make the right formula and strength, Drummond said. The Drummonds had to get smart phones that have an application on them to help keep track of Toby’s med- See TOBY, page 7A Woman arrested following pursuit A 20-year-old Red Bluff woman was arrested about 1 a.m. on Wednesday after she led law enforcement on a small chase through the Los Molinos area toward Tehama. A Tehama County Sheriff’s Deputy attempted to make a traffic stop for a violation at 1:11 a.m. on Tehama Vina Road and Marek Road in the Los Molinos area, however, the woman failed to yield, Tehama County Sheriff’s Lt. Dave Greer said. The vehicle, a black 1989 Lincoln, turned north onto Sec- ond Street, which is a dead-end street, and the occupants were apprehended, Greer said. Logs show that California Highway Patrol and Corning Police were called in just before one unknown passenger bailed on foot. The person was not located, Greer said. The driver, Brionna Raine Shropshire, was arrested and booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of evading a peace officer, possession of controlled substance parapher- nalia and being an unlicensed driver. No bail was set. Shropshire was taken into custody without incident, Greer said. Another passenger was not arrested, he said. —Julie Zeeb Summer vacation break as teachers hit the classrooms By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Teachers representing schools throughout Tehama County participated in a weeklong program that trained them to think about and teach math differently. The boot camps of sorts was not meant to be physi- cally challenging, but rather a mental stimulus for outfit- ting teachers with new skills that will help them teach math in a more purposeful and enlightening way to stu- dents. “One of the most impor- tant factors affecting student learning is the teacher,” said Larry Champion, county superintendent of schools. “This training gives partici- pating teachers an opportu- nity to improve their skills and provide a greater learn- ing experience for their stu- dents.” The training is funded through a state math and sci- ence partnership grant beginning of the week some of the teachers did not know each other, but by the end they were working with teachers from others schools and sharing ideas. That sort of collaboration will benefit them when they each return to their individual class- rooms. Teachers will walk away from the workshop with strategic questioning tech- niques that will promote a deeper level of thinking in students and a deeper con- ceptual understanding of math and math concepts, she said. The lessons learned this week were extended beyond math. Daily News photo by Tang Lor Teachers collaborate in developing effective ways to teach math to students during a session funded through the Mathematics Learning Communities grant. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 designed to give teachers skills that focus on develop- ing instructions that teach students to understand math concepts, said Lisa Sand- berg, director of math and science at the Tehama County Department of Edu- cation. Teachers participat- ing in the Mathematics Learning Communities will be ahead of the curve when new statewide core educa- tion standards are imple- mented during the 2014- 2015 school-year. The professional devel- opment focuses on student work and looking at why students make the misinter- pretations that they make and formulating instruction and assessments to correct it. “It’s not just about teach- ing a rule but getting stu- dents to really see why the rule works,” Sandberg said. During the course, math learning instructors, or coaches, worked with teach- ers on exercises that helped them develop new approaches to teaching math. Having teachers partici- pate in the math learning communities pulls tradition- al teachers in traditional classrooms out of that envi- ronment and into a different one that emphasizes collab- oration, math coach Laurie Marcellus said. 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