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Death Notice Nolan Diehl Nolan Diehl of Red Bluff died Thursday, Aug. 11, 2011, at his residence. He was 88. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service is handling the arrangements. Published Friday, Aug. 12, 2011, in the Daily News, Red Bluff, Calif. POT Continued from page 1A each. An additional charge of being armed during the commission of a felony will be added, Maher said. All suspects are being held at the Tehama County Jail. Friday, August 12, 2011 – Daily News 9A TIDE is part of 48 The 736 marijuana plants recovered could have produced an average of 1 to 5 pounds of marijuana per plant, Maher said. The street value would have ranged from $1.5 million to $7.7 million, he said. regional narcotic task forces statewide operated by the California Attorney Gener- al’s Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement. The task force’s mission is to significantly diminish the availability and use of methamphetamine and Travel trailer vandalized on business lot GUN A travel trailer and several items inside was vandalized sometime Tuesday or early Wednesday at a business lot on Baker Road. Owner Don Moore, 41, of Cot- tonwood discovered Wednesday morning that his white 24-foot travel trailer had been broken into and ran- OLIVE Continued from page 1A is followed by the Corning Does It Bedder bed races, which start at 7 p.m. on Solano and Sixth streets. A soft deadline for parade entries, which are slowly starting to trickle in, has been set for Aug. 19, but entries must be in by Aug. 24, Cardenas said. “If they didn’t get their entry in, people can always join the end of the parade,” Cardenas said. “They won’t be judged but they’ll still be in the parade.” sacked, a sheriff’s press release said. The trailer was parked in a lot of the closed Moore’s Glass Company. The culprit caused more than $2,500 in damages to the trailer, the release said. Fixtures, windows, furniture and cupboards inside the trailer were destroyed as well as a The Chamber is look- ing for volunteer to help out as pooper scoopers. Interested parties can con- tact Cardenas. The House of Brews is holding a live music night from 7-9 p.m. after Fri- day’s parade and tentative plans are to bring back a youth dance. “We used to have one with the festival, but haven’t for the last few years,” Cardenas said. “It’s something for the kids to do while their par- ents attend the live music at the House of Brews.” The events start at 7 a.m. at Woodson Park, corner of South and Pear streets, Saturday, Aug. 27. COLLEGE Continued from page 1A Wednesday. “I’ve made a lot of good friends, and I think we’ve got some things done that are real posi- tive.” Miller’s job has involved plan- ning and overseeing construction of new college buildings and supervis- ing many campus departments, such as bus service, grounds mainte- nance, custodial work, police ser- vices, shipping and printing. When he started at Butte 24 years and 10 months ago, it was as a mem- ber of the grounds maintenance crew. Over time, he was given more and more responsibility, he said. Miller grew up in Red Bluff, where he graduated from Mercy High School. For the next decade, he worked in farming, ranching and timber. “At that time, I realized I needed to get an education,” he said. He took some classes at Shasta College and then moved to Chico FEE Continued from page 1A get the budget done on time and have the new spending plan in place by the beginning of the fiscal year.’’ The problems surfaced publicly Wednesday as the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection told its executive officer to begin drafting emergency regu- lations to implement the fee. The board plans to consider adopting the rules at an Aug. 22 meet- ing so state tax collectors can begin seeking the money from owners of about 850,000 properties statewide after Jan. 1. GOP lawmakers and anti-tax groups contend the fee was enacted ille- gally because Democrats approved it on majority vote rather than the two- thirds vote required for tax increases. Brown cited problems with the bill when he signed it into law last month, suggesting then that lawmakers needed to make some changes. Alicia Trost, spokes- woman for Senate Presi- $100 JVC stereo CD player. The door to the trailer had been pried open. The case is still under investiga- tion. Anyone with information is asked to call the Tehama County Sheriff’s Department at 529-7900. -Andrea Wagner The pancake breakfast, run by the Corning Volun- teer Fire Department, starts at 7 a.m. and runs until 11 a.m. and the Fun Run/Walk registration runs from 8-8:45 a.m. with a 9 a.m. start time. Arts, crafts and food booths will be up and run- ning 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with music starting at 10 a.m. Children’s activities and the Fireman’s Hose Down start at 11 a.m. Tours of the Olive City will be available at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. The dunk tank starts at noon and judging for the dutch oven cook-off and the talent show start at 1 p.m. and enrolled at Butte College. He transferred to Chico State Universi- ty, where he earned a degree in plant and soil sciences. After that, he was hired by Butte College. When Miller talks about his work being “a privilege,” he may have in mind being on the job when an enor- mous amount of construction was done, mostly on the main campus. It started in 2002 with the Allied Health and Public Services Build- ing, which was paid for with state money, he said. It was the campus’ first new building in 30 years. Right after that, voters in Butte and Glenn counties passed Measure A, which allowed selling bonds to raise $85 million for building at Butte College. Miller said the $85 million was “leveraged” to accumulate $205 million. Much of that money was acquired by using chunks of the $85 million as matching funds for state grants. Projects completed between 2002 and this year include: dent Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, said lawmakers will do what they must to pay for state firefighting efforts. But she said the Sen- ate’s budget experts do not believe changes are needed because the department should be able to use the prevention fee money for its own budget. ‘‘We don’t see a prob- lem with it because the way we defined preven- tion is so broad that the department should be able to absorb the money that we took from them,’’ she said. ‘‘If there need to be fixes, we will do the fix. We feel right now there’s not a problem.’’ That’s a broader inter- pretation than is being adopted by the state fire board or the administra- tion, said Daniel Berlant, a spokesman for the Cali- fornia Department of Forestry and Fire Protec- tion. The department’s reading of the law would leave it short of money to fight blazes, he said. Republican lawmakers blamed majority Democ- rats for passing the bill as part of the budget in June without doing enough homework. Red Bluff Simple Cremations & Burial Service Family owned & Operated Honor and Dignity 527-1732 722 Oak Street, Red Bluff, FD Lic. 1931 A raffle and the Corn- ing Rotary Olive Drop, which start at 3 p.m., will be the last events of the day. Olives will drop from more than 35 feet from the Corning Fire Depart- ment’s ladder truck onto Rotary’s 40-foot bull’s eye target with the closet olive to the bull’s eye receiving a prize. For more information, visit www.corningcham- ber.blogspot.com or call 824-5550. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews. com. • The three-story Learning Resource Center; modernization of the library, including the addition of a two-story wing. • The Arts Facility. • The Student and Administrative Services Building. • The Chico Center. • Remodeling the Campus Cen- ter. • The solar power project. • Many parking-lot improve- ments. • The fire training tower. • An emergency vehicle opera- tions course. “I think we’ve been pretty lucky,” he said. Today is Miller’s last day at Butte. After that, he said, he plans to take care of a long list of chores at home. He also wants to visit various school districts and colleges and share what he’s learned about plan- ning and construction. Miller said he and his wife, Martha, plan to spend time with their three daughters and also “do a lot of traveling.” ‘‘It’s a classic example of doing things in the dark of the night,’’ said Assem- blyman Jim Nielsen of Gerber, Assembly Repub- licans’ chief budget nego- tiator. ‘‘I don’t think it can be fixed and should be repealed.’’ Sen. Bob Huff, of Dia- mond Bar, Senate Repub- licans’ chief budget nego- tiator, said the result is that the state created a budget hole for its chief firefighting agency just as the fire season typically begins in earnest. ‘‘The Democrats have been looking for every- thing the state can do where they can impose a fee,’’ Huff said. ‘‘We think they over- stretched.’’ Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield, D-Sherman Oaks, said Democrats adopted a longstanding recommendation from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office to impose a fee on those who benefit from the state’s firefighting efforts as more homeowners build in what used to be remote areas. ‘‘We moved forward with the fire fee this year because we can’t continue subsidizing bad land-use decisions made by local governments,’’ Blumen- field, chairman of the Assembly Budget Com- mittee, said in a state- ment. ‘‘We need to pro- tect taxpayers.’’ The upshot was to con- fuse taxpayers, said Howard Wood, chief of the rural Vacaville Fire Protection District and a board member of the Fire Districts Association of California. ‘‘It’s another bill that was passed that wasn’t thought out,’’ said Wood, who said three-fourths of his 3,000 Solano County residents will likely be charged the new fee. ‘‘How all this is coming out is confusing to every- one.’’ State Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, is leading an effort to collect enough signatures to put the fee before voters next year. The Howard Jarvis Tax- payers Association is con- sidering a legal challenge, arguing that the fee lacked the needed approval from two-thirds of the Legislature and infringes on local govern- ments. Continued from page 1A which led to a two-minute pursuit of the Saturn when the speeding driver didn’t stop. Reaching speeds of up to 50 mph, traveling from Antelope Boulevard to Sale Lane to Belle Mill Road, the vehicle finally stopped on Damon Avenue, Graham said. A loaded Ruger .22 firearm was found nearby after officers learned that it was thrown from the vehicle during the pursuit, he said. The driver, Francisco Farias, 28, was arrested at the scene, while his female passenger was detained temporarily before being released. Farias was charged CASH Continued from page 1A assisted in the search, the logs said. The cash register was recovered in the area and may have been dropped as the suspects fled, Graham said. Officers were unable to find the second suspect in the area, but German was later found at his residence and arrested at 2:40 a.m. Thursday in the 700 block of Luther Road, logs said. Most of the items stolen were recovered, Graham said. No one was injured during the incident. Both men were booked into Tehama County Jail on charges of robbery and conspiracy to commit a crime. Bail was set at $100,000 each. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynews.com. Calif. man accused of trying to break into prison FOLSOM (AP) — Most inmates are trying to get out of prison, but authorities say they caught a California parolee trying to sneak back in. Corrections Sgt. Tony Quinn says 48-year-old Marvin Lane Ussery was spotted late Wednesday night scaling the 7-foot tall, barbed wire-topped fence that encircles a large wooded area behind the California State Prison in Sacra- mento. Quinn says Ussery served time at New Folsom for rob- bery before he was paroled in June 2009. Officials are investigating whether Ussery was attempt- ing to smuggle in drugs or cell phones, but say they haven’t found any contraband. Ussery is being held in Sacramento County Jail on sus- picion of violating his parole and being an ex-convict on prison property. Pot grows, but Calif. judge rules it’s not a crop VISALIA (AP) — It grows in the ground, requires sun- shine and water to blossom and earns California growers an estimated $17 billion a year. But don’t call marijuana an agricultural crop in Tulare County. The Fresno Bee reports that a judge ruled this week against a medical marijuana-growing collective that wanted to operate on land zoned for agriculture. Tulare County Counsel Kathleen Bales-Lange says it’s the first time that courts have addressed whether marijuana can be classified as an agricultural crop. California voters legalized pot for medicinal purposes in 1996. The case began when the county Board of Supervisors sued the Foothill Growers Association, which operated in an agriculture-zoned building. In a ruling finalized Tuesday, Judge Paul Vortmann said the act of growing a controlled substance is not an agricul- tural use of property. Changing of the ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Seasons Saturday, August 27th @ 10am Shopping 101 Saturday, September 3rd @ 10am Fall Sale Please call to reserve a seat Red Bluff Garden Center 527-0886 766 Antelope Blvd. (Next to the Fairground) other illicit drugs in Tehama County through apprehen- sion and prosecution, Maher said. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailynew s.com. with possession of stolen property, carrying a loaded firearm, evading a police officer without regard to public safety, reckless driving and giv- ing false evidence of reg- istration on a vehicle. He also had a warrant for his arrest, police said. The initial report about a man trying to get into an apartment couldn’t be confirmed when officers returned to talk to witness- es, Graham said. No one was injured during the incident. The Saturn was towed. Farias was booked into Tehama County Jail in lieu of $81,134 bail. ——— Andrea Wagner can be reached at 527-2153, extension 114 or awagner@redbluffdailyne ws.com.