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FRIDAY JANUARY 20, 2012 Breaking news at: Gold From Below Select TV www.redbluffdailynews.com See Inside RED BLUFF Glory Days SPORTS 1B likely Weather forecast 10A Rain 52/42 Corning man dies after rollover DAILYNEWS Water war 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 A Corning man died Tuesday as a result of injuries from a rollover crash. John Allen McFate, 63, was a cattle rancher in the Corning area, a business owner and floor installer. McFate received major injuries in the crash at 9 p.m. on Jan. 11 on southbound Interstate 5, south of Hooker Creek Road, near Jellys Ferry Road, and was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding. McFate was driving south on I-5 in the fast lane about 70 mph when the left front tire lost tread and deflated, causing him to loose control of his 2004 Ford F-250, which left the east side of road, going up the embankment and became airborne. The Ford landed in median, rolling over about three times before coming to rest upright in the center divider. McFate had to be extricated by emergency per- sonnel. —Julie Zeeb Concerns about patriotic school By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer The Corning Union Elementary School Board held a public hearing Wednesday to allow dis- trict employees and par- ents to provide input on a proposed charter school. Proponents of the Ben- jamin Franklin Preparato- ry Academy charter school focused on the opportunity to have a choice and wanting to have a small school envi- ronment. Others brought up concerns about finances, lack of a con- crete plan and exclusion of certain populations. School co-founder Karen Deveraux said many parents are not sat- isfied with public schools, and the charter would pro- vide an exceptional choice. "This is not about the district not doing their job," she said. "It's about choice." Woodson Elementary School Principal Mona Miller said, while a char- ter school is a concept all educators can support, she had some concerns with the proposal for Franklin Prep. The petition talks about diversity and keep- ing the same demograph- ics as the Corning Ele- mentary district, but the requirements listed for attendance are limiting. According to the pro- posal and Deveraux, the school will focus on attracting students who are in private school or are being home-schooled, Miller said. Most home- schooled students are Anglo-Saxon and English speakers. That does not match the district's demo- graphics, where 53 per- cent of students are His- panic and English lan- guage learners. While the petition addresses diversity in regards to race and socioeconomic status, it ignores the English lan- See SCHOOL, page 9A Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner More than 100 people crowded the room, some shouting and angry, during a public meeting for input on the Northern Sacramento Valley Integrated Regional Water Management Plan Wednesday at the Red Bluff Community and Senior Center. Tempers flare at water meeting By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer With shouts of "You're fired!" and "Let's have the war," and a fight between two men that threatened to get physical, a public input meeting Wednesday was anything but calm. The meeting was intended for anyone to give input on any water- related issues that could be incorpo- rated into a grant-funded, six-coun- ty Northern Sacramento Valley Integrated Regional Water Manage- ment Plan. A vocal majority of the crowd refused immediately to listen to or see a slide show about the plan's basic structure and purpose. More than 100 people and dozens of affiliates of the Tehama County Tea Party Patriots came for the meeting, which was dominated by a few people that interrupted the moderator and yelled at some peo- ple that stood up to speak. Having met the night before, many who attended were deter- mined to obstruct what they deter- mined to be a "Delphi Technique," said Tea Party affiliate Ron Sergeant of Red Bluff. They don't want to get separated or pushed into going along with the plan like they had been at meetings in the past, he said. "They're mad as hell," Sergeant said. The Delphi Technique, said to be used to influence the public at meetings to accept predetermined From bookmobile to litter limo By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Postponing plans of portable library, the Tehama County Library Tuesday passed on the discarded transit bus it had acquired for a book- mobile in 2011. Looking to create a "field trip on wheels," landfill manager Kristina Miller accepted the bus from the county library to create a mobile landfill educational tool. The idea is to bring the landfill experience to schools to teach about recycling and waste man- agement, Miller told the Board of Supervisors this week. It has been too expensive for schools to take students to the land- fill for field trips, although community edu- cation is a long-term goal for the agency in compli- ance with Assembly Bill 939. The bus, a 1999 Ford Cutaway, had been parked at the Red Bluff library, where volunteers had removed all the seats and began turning the vehicle into a bookmobile during Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Kristina Miller, agency manager for the Tehama County landfill, plans to transform a former coun- ty transit bus into a mobile exhibit to teach chil- dren about recycling and waste reduction through the landfill agency. the summer. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 The bookmobile, which staff had planned to have up and running by September, was to replace library services in Los Molinos and add services to smaller communities in the county. The Los Molinos library was going to close in August, but when the Board of Supervisors reversed its decision to close the branch in response to public outcry, the bookmobile plan was set aside. There wasn't enough money in the budget to keep the library open and have a bookmobile, said County Librarian Jessica Hudson at the time. Hudson, who was hired in early 2011 and resigned in December for personal reasons, was enthusiastic about the bookmobile concept. New librarian Sally Ainsworth hasn't given up on the idea either. "We still would really like to have one," she said. "It is a dream of ours." However, after the bus sat idle for months, a win- dow was broken out on the side, she said. They feared more vandalism would follow. Library staff are still looking for grants and opportunities to create a bookmobile in the future, she said. They would like to have a way to bring the library to communities like Manton and Paskenta that don't have easy access to library materi- als. It would be nice to have the Los Molinos See LIMO, page 9A government policies, tries to divide people and keep them away from people that know what is really going on, according to Tea Party publications. During the meeting inside the Red Bluff Senior and Community Center, several speakers interrupted the moderator at times with com- ments of "Stop Delphi'ing us!" At one point two men stood and threatened a physical altercation when one man told an outspoken guest to shut his mouth. Red Bluff Police officers were called to stand- by briefly just after the incident. The water management plan, in the works for more than 10 years, stems from Proposition 50, passed in 2002, and Proposition 84, in 2006. Some $900,000 has been See WAR, page 9A Creative approach to troubled teens By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A new program is in place at area schools to help troubled teens through better communication with a program called Creative Communications. "Creative Communications is about being creative in how you communicate a positive message," said founder Robert Kordzikowski of Red Bluff. "With the troubled teens it's a reality check. Ultimately, with the teens I want them to realize that they can live better lives, but it's up to them. That they don't have to follow the poor examples they see." Through songs he has written, such as Painted Free- dom, Kordzikowski is able to talk about prison art, which opens the door to conversations. "The song talks about how you can either be out on the lake or in a cell dreaming about it," Kordzikowski said. Kordzikowski said he likes takes moments while performing songs, such as when he messes up, to teach life lessons like the fact that messing up in the song is like life — you mess up, but you keep going. The idea for the program started with his work in the Shasta County Probation Department at Crystal Creek Camp, where he taught a poetry class for troubled teens See TEENS, page 9A TEHAMA COUNTY GLASS for MOULE'S Fireplace Glass 515 Sycamore St. 529-0260 Learn Basic WORD! 8:30am-12:30pm Cost: $ 65 Job Training Center 718 Main St. Red Bluff Per person Call 529-7000 Tues, Jan. 24, 2012