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WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 28, 2011 Breaking news at: Banquet Fit For Ranchers Winter Dinner www.redbluffdailynews.com See Below RED BLUFF 49ers top Pro Bowl SPORTS 1B Cloudy 61/45 Weather forecast 8B 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 AB 109 — Public safety Late night river rescue By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A 52-year-old man who was unsure of his location was rescued Monday evening from the China Rapids area of the Sacramento River near Red Bluff. At 6:23 p.m. Monday, Mary Elizabeth Edmond, 64, called the Tehama County Sheriff's Department to report her boyfriend, Terry Lowe, had gone kayaking Monday afternoon and had not returned. Logs show Edmond reported last hearing from Lowe, who is not an experienced kayaker and is a dia- betic with no medication with him, via cell phone about 1:30 p.m. See RIVER, page 7A Sears closures won't affect Red Bluff store Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner The Tehama County Jail is just one of the agencies preparing to implement a county plan to address changes under AB 109. By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Note: The following is part two of a series of articles giving a first look at the Tehama County realignment plan being written by the Community Corrections Partnership to carry out California Assembly Bill 109. Boosting the drug enforcement task force weighed heavily among suggestions from Tehama County public safety offi- cials on how to use state realignment funds for Assembly Bill 109. Those who oversee the arrests and convictions of criminals have made the argument that they need more officers paid for through AB109, after immediate needs are met at the jail and probation departments. District Attorney Gregg Cohen is the chair- man of the pre-trial and sentencing subcommittee of the Community Cor- rections Partnership and a voting member of the executive committee that will vote on a final draft of the county realignment plan. At the first discussion of the draft plan distrib- uted Dec. 8, he suggested three areas in his depart- ment that may need AB109 funding. Because of shifting of parolees to county proba- tion, the county courts may be responsible for holding parole hearings, Cohen said. To make that happen, the district attor- ney's office requests adding a legal secretary and two deputy district attorneys to prosecute the cases. What the court will Two arrests, charges in fight involving men and teens in stairwell Two men were arrest- ed and charges filed on another man involved in a fight reported about 9:15 p.m. Monday in the 1100 block of Delphini- um Court in Red Bluff. Officers were sent to the area at 9:41 p.m. Monday after several people called in to report hearing men fight in a stairwell and on the street. When officers arrived, they contacted the involved parties and the investigation led to the arrest of Lawrence Dale Twifford, 25, and Mekeael DA'Sean Dove, 19, both of Red Bluff. Twifford was booked into Tehama County Jail for fighting in public and Dove was booked into jail on the charge of bat- tery, said Sgt. Quintan Ortega. A 14-year-old boy was issued a citation for the charge of battery for his involvement in the fight. Charges were filed with the District Attor- ney's Office regarding a 34-year-old man's involvement in the dis- turbance, Ortega said. A 17-year-old boy 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 involved in the alterca- tion received minor injuries to his face, Orte- ga said. The other victim, a 15-year-old boy, was not injured. —Julie Zeeb Daily News photo by Chip Thompson The Tehama County Cattlemen and CattleWomen will host their 9th annual scholarship auction dur- ing the Winter Dinner, set for Saturday, Jan. 7 at the Tehama District Fairground.Wine and olive oil tast- ing start at 6 p.m. with a prime rib dinner at 7 p.m. Dozens of donated items will be auctioned with proceeds going toward scholarships for students studying agriculture. Pictured, from left, are Chris Marenco, Kathy Tobin, Paula Holden, Josh Davy and Steve McCarthy.Tickets are $20 in advance and are available at area businesses, including Rabobank and PremierWest Bank locations. PHYSICIAN REFERRAL A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1-800-990-9971 CHW North State Region ultimately need for the new hearings is still uncertain, he said. Second, Cohen sug- gested that AB109 funds be used to reinstate a dis- trict attorney investigator to the Tehama Intera- gency Drug Enforcement task force. "I have always been extremely supportive of TIDE and believe in its continued effectiveness," Cohen stated in his pro- posal. His third suggestion was to hire an investigator should a county-wide post-release supervision compliance team be developed to support the probation department as some have been dis- cussing. In all, his requests over the next four years would total nearly $410,000. It is a four-year plan, but it is "maleable," Cohen said. Also in support of bol- stering the drug task force, Red Bluff Police Chief Paul Nanfito gave input from the city law enforcement angle. Nanfito followed Cohen and spoke on behalf of the Corning and Red Bluff police depart- ments as part of the law enforcement subcommit- tee. Nanfito asserted that city or front-end law enforcement should be given more consideration. "When they drafted AB109, front-end law enforcement was the one component the state missed," he said. In his proposal, he sug- gests two options to counter problems with the "new population" of per- sons in the community See AB109, page 7A NEW YORK — Sears Holdings Corp. plans to close between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores to raise cash after a weak holiday shopping season for the retailer. The closings, which do not include the Red Bluff Sears store, are the latest and most visible in a long series of moves to try to fix a retailer that has struggled with falling sales and shabby stores. Sears Holdings Corp. said it has yet to deter- mine which stores will close but said it will post on http://www.searsme- dia.com when a final list is compiled. Sears would not discuss how many, if any, jobs would be cut. Local store Manager Jim St. Leger said Red Bluff will not be among those that are closing. "We are privately owned, so none of this affects us," he said. Red Bluff, one of sev- eral Sears Hometown stores, is not a full retail store but offers the same brands that are available See SEARS, page 7A Tickets on sale for Winter Dinner