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WEEKEND AUGUST 13-14, 2011 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Inside RED BLUFF USA Weekend 6 p.m. ESPN Title Game SPORTS 1B Sunny 95/63 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 Pride of Red Bluff Spree of thefts from vehicles A series of vehicles was reportedly struck by theft during the night between Tuesday and Wednesday. Items, including a Lumix Panasonic camera worth $600 and a white 4G iPod worth $200, were taken through an open window of a 1999 Jeep Wrangler parked at the Comfort Inn, on Main Street, police logs said. Items were also stolen from two unlocked vehicles in the 200 block of Pinon Way, logs said. Some $3 in change was taken from an ashtray of a 2004 Chevrolet Trailblazer and a $175 GPS unit was stolen from a 2003 Volkswagen. Nearby, at the Cabernet Apartments, an unlocked 2003 Lincoln Navigator had items stolen, the logs said. Items taken include a black iPod worth $200, an iPod charger worth $15 and 10 DSi games worth about $20 each. Police Sgt. Michael Graham couldn’t confirm whether the incidents are connected, but it is possible, he said. Officers have no suspects. Anyone with information regarding this incident is asked to call the Red Bluff Police Department at 527-3131. -Andrea Wagner County to see part of $2.2B for roads Continuing the push Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Family, friends and fans gathered inside Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill to celebrate and watch the Red Bluff Little League All-Stars Friday as the team faced Nevada live on ESPN2. The Red Bluff team won 3-2. By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer More than 40 people elbowed into Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill Friday afternoon to watch the Red Bluff Little League All-Stars defeat the Nevada team in the West- ern Regional Semi-finals. Men, women and children cheered in unified spurts and smiles, hoots and hollers as their friends and peers played baseball on the flat screen televisions throughout the restaurant. “We’re seriously so excited,” April Stanley said. “We wanted to do this together.” Stanley helped organize the get- together at Applebee’s, but seeing the boys play on live television was something else, she said. ‘Just coming and watching the game with everybody, it’s amazing. I keep crying’ on the team. He has played on base- ball and football teams with some members of the All-Stars, including his best friend Deonte Antolin, he said. — Katie Benson “We look really good,” she said. “I could throw up!” Her family is sort of obsessed with Little League championships, she said. They record the games every year. “It’s crazy that we’re sitting here and our team’s on,” Stanley said. Stanley’s 13-year-old son Sean was there with other boys cheering New lines in Cottonwood to improve reliability Special to the DN Pacific Gas and Electric Company crews will be working in west Cotton- wood the weekend of Aug. 13-14 on a project that will improve electric reliability and reduce power outage times, according to a release from the utility. PG&E is adding a 12,000-volt power line to create an additional electri- cal circuit on existing poles. When completed, the upgraded area will enable PG&E to more quickly restore electric service to customers by rerouting power around trouble spots until permanent repairs are completed, such as damage caused by storms or vehi- cles hitting utility poles. It will also enable PG&E to reduce the number of cus- tomers impacted by sched- uled outages for mainte- nance work. Crews will work from about 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. In order to get the job done more quickly, PG&E will be using both local and out- of-area crews and will use helicopters to help string rope to guide new lines. About 500 residential customers – mostly in west Cottonwood and about 40 in Anderson – will be with- out power during work hours. PG&E apologizes for the inconvenience this may cause. PG&E has directly notified all affected cus- tomers by letter about the planned outage, the release said. Motorists may encounter traffic delays of up to 20 minutes and one-way traffic along Gas Point Road between Charles Street and Moonbeam Lane on Satur- day, and between Moon- beam Lane and White Oak Drive on Sunday. On Saturday and Sun- day, crews and helicopters will work along the traffic- controlled section of Gas Point Road. Helicopter work will be in the morn- ings only. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 PG&E is doing the work ahead of winter storm sea- son. Eric Coates, Red Bluff Jr. Spar- tans football president, joined the crowd as a fan, he said. He has helped coach at least three of the All-Star boys before in football and is friends with many of the families of the team. “It is neat to see them come this far and to see what they’ve done,” Coates said. Coates and his family had fol- lowed the All-Stars to San Bernardino to watch them play, he said. Although the team is general- ly secluded during their time there, See PRIDE, page 7A to rebuild California’s infrastructure and spur job growth, the Califor- nia Transportation Com- mission (CTC) has allo- cated $2.2 billion in new funding to 146 highway, transit and rail projects statewide. Of the total alloca- tion, $41,999,000 has been earmarked for Interstate 5 in Tehama and Shasta counties in and near Red Bluff, from south of Adobe Road to the Gas Point Road Overcrossing that will rehabilitate 40.9 lane miles of roadway to improve the ride quality, prevent further deterioration of the road surface, minimize costly roadway repairs and extend the pavement service life, according to a press release issued this week by Caltrans. There is a $250,000 contribution to a local project to replace the Jellys Ferry Road bridge over the Sacramento River. The funding included $863 million from Proposition 1B, a 2006 voter-approved trans- portation bond, accord- ing to a press release issued this week by Cal- trans. To date, the state has allocated more than $9 billion in Proposition 1B funds. “We are putting transportation dollars to work creating jobs and making transportation improvements that will benefit Californians now and for decades to come,” said Acting Cal- trans Director Malcolm Dougherty. Other highlighted projects include improvements to surface streets in Chico. Vandals badly damage rural school By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Just as the new school year is beginning to take shape, Flournoy Elemen- tary School was trashed by vandals who stole basket- ball nets, slashed tires and turned on a hose to flood an office and several rooms. The small school, at 15850 Paskenta Road in Flournoy, teaches an aver- age of 40 students from kindergarten through eighth grades. Principal Ken Burkhart estimated that the damage was caused sometime between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. Thursday. Tammy Jenson, the school’s business manager, called Tehama County Sheriff’s deputies to report the incident at 7:40 a.m. Thursday. The person or persons involved took off with three basketball nets, Burkhart said. They had dragged pic- nic tables over to the hoops in order to climb up and get the nets down. Two signs from the school, including ones that read “Tobacco Free Zone” and “Safe School,” were unscrewed from a wall and taken as well, he said. All four tires on school- owned 2008 Ford E350 10- passenger van were slashed Courtesy photo Vandals struck Flournoy Elementary School during the night Wednesday leaving behind hundreds of dollars in damage. A hose was turned on to spray inside one of two buildings on the campus, flooding an office and several rooms. and two sprinkler heads were broken. Damages and losses with those items are esti- mated at nearly $1,000, Burkhart said. Replacing the tires on the van is expected to cost almost $850. Damages to the building may be much more costly. Multiple faucets were turned on flooding the fields, he said. Then, a hose on one of the faucets was put at the base of an office door in building No. 2 that leads into the cook’s office, food pantry and kitchen. The building was con- structed in 2004 and is one of only two buildings on the school campus. Since Thursday morn- ing, crews have had to remove all the furniture and even pieces of drywall to dry out the building, Burkhart said. They won’t know for some time the full extent of the damages. The cost for repairs is unknown at this point. Classes are scheduled to begin at Flournoy on Aug. See SCHOOL, page 7A