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TUESDAY JANUARY 24, 2012 Breaking news at: The Bulls are Back Bull Sale www.redbluffdailynews.com See 1B, 2B, 1D RED BLUFF Season Wrap SPORTS 1C Partly cloudy 56/38 Weather forecast 4B 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 Burst pipe cuts school short Weekend rains swell river By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A few days of showers have dropped just less than three inches of rain in Tehama County thanks to a Pacific storm, which exited the area beginning Monday. According to NOAA's National Weather Service website, 2.84 inches of rain fell over the weekend, but Tehama County residents should see a break for at least a few days. Patchy fog is expected until 10 a.m. today, but rain should not return before Wednesday with most of the See RAINS, page 5A Daily News photo by Tang Lor Maintenance staff deal with the aftermath of a broken water main that flooded the Red Bluff Union High School campus Monday. By TANG LOR DN Staff Writer Red Bluff Union High School students were released from school early Monday after a broken water main flooded part of the campus and water was shut off. Parents were notified of the school closure through the district's automated phone system and stu- dents were excused around 9:30 a.m. School will resume today. Director of Operations Joe Kittle said when he got to work Monday morning he saw water boiling out near the foot of a tree. Water flood- ed an area that included some pic- nic tables. He estimates the water main broke some time Sunday night and he discovered it around 5:30 a.m., Monday. A staff member who had performed a campus check around 9:30 p.m., Sunday did not see any problems at that time, Kittle said. After the flooding was mini- mized, maintenance staff discov- ered the broken pipes were well beneath the concrete. No suspi- cious activity is suspected. The age of the infrastructure combined with the cold weather may have caused the rupture. "We're dealing with 100-year- old infrastructure here," Kittle said. "This is a very old school." Freezing temperatures from last week may have caused water to back up and it just took this long for the water to move through, he said. Water to the main Red Bluff Corning approves landscape plans By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — The City Council approved spending $2,700 on a landscaping project on the northeast corner of Mar- guerite Avenue and Solano Street at the Jan. 10 meeting. The cost will cover the installation of landscap- ing, irrigation equipment, fertilizer and ground cover on the recently acquired city-owned cor- ner property. The land was acquired to help with the develop- ment of the traffic signal put in at that intersection and is next to land owned by the Corning Healthcare district. "We solicited three bids for this project and only one was submitted," said Public Works Direc- tor John Brewer. "He is a local guy. The company is Greenday Irrigation and Turf Management of Corning." The funds for the pro- ject come from the signal improvement fund, according to the staff report. The start date will depend on the weather, Brewer said. In addition to two Swan Hill olive trees, the corner will be graced by 20 white groundcover rose bushes, six dwarf germander and 17 aga- panthas. The lot will see about five inches of existing soil removed and landscape fabric put down with a four-inch layer of small bark. The council praised Brewer for the job done in working toward the repaving of Solano Street. "He did a beautiful job," said Councilwoman Darlene Dickison. The 2011 Solano Paving Project, approved at the July 26 meeting, included segments from Interstate 5 to Toomes Avenue from the railroad to First Street. Included was the Sixth Street alley between Solano and Yolo streets through the intersection at Yolo Street. The project breaks Solano Street up into nine segments and subseg- ments to make it easier to get it repaved. "Thanks, John, for coming up with a way to get Solano Street done," said Mayor Gary Strack. The final cost for the project, awarded to Chico company Knife River Construction, was just more than $242,000. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See PLANS, page 5A High campus was shut off affecting most classrooms, the cafeteria and the gym, but some of the outlying buildings such as the art, chemistry and media center still had water. None of the district's other cam- puses were affected. Monday afternoon, staff worked on removing the concrete so they could get to the pipes. Kittle said his crew had gotten all the broken pieces out of the ground and expected to have the new pieces installed by sundown. Around 4:30 p.m., a district offi- cial said school would resume as normal today. ——— Tang Lor can be reached at 527- 2153, Ext. 110 or tlor@redbluffdai- lynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @TangLor. Oil producer featured on TV By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — Lucero Olive Oil reached another milestone after being fea- tured on Cooking Channel USA. The company was cho- sen after someone from the show stumbled onto www.lucerooliveoil.com, said owner Dewey Lucero. Chef Lynn Crawford, a former chef at the Four Seasons Hotel in New York, came to Corning and filmed for her show, Pitchin' In, in March 2010, and the episode aired in Canada at that time. "Just for them to choose us was an honor," Lucero said. "It was excit- ing to tell our story and educate people on olive oil." Lucero is the fourth generation of family olive growers in Corning and many of the local olive trees were planted by his maternal grandfather, who was a involved in bringing See OIL, page 5A Champs repeat at Ranch Rodeo Originally published Sunday on redbluffdai- lynews.com. By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer Last year's champions came back for another win in the 17th Annual Jim Owens Memorial Ranch Rodeo Friday and Saturday at the Tehama District Fairground. Despite an incident Friday evening when Red Bluff's Lance Root of Antelope Creek Cattle Co. injured his leg, seven teams carried on into the finals, including first time finalists Gill Ranch of Millville. ENG Ranches of San Miguel entered the finals in first place and main- tained their spot in the lead taking top scores and times in five of the seven events in the finals. At the end of the finals, ENG Ranches' bronc rider Phillip Selby tied in the event with Victor Madrigal of Sprague River Ranches of Beatty, Ore., scoring a 92-point ride. Madrigal was last year's top bronc rider at the Ranch Rodeo with a 90-point ride. The champions also had the fastest times in calf branding, ranch doc- toring and herd counting, and the highest score in the ranch horse event. The Ranch Rodeo fea- tures more traditional rodeo events and is named COMPLETE AUTO REPAIR Smog Inspection $ 2595 + cert. (MOST CARS & PICK-UPS) Pass or FREE retest 195 S. Main St. Red Bluff 530 527-9841 Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Eric Duarte of Sprague River Ranches or Beatty, Ore. competes in the finals' ranch horse category. He tied for second in the event, while overall his team placed second in the Jim Owens Memorial Ranch Rodeo Friday and Saturday at the Tehama District Fairground. in honor of longtime Red Bluff area rancher Jim Owens, who passed away in 1996. Owens wife of 27 years, Thelma, watched the events from the bleachers Saturday night and cheered on her grandson Casey Moore as he won first place in the 10 to 12 year olds' dummy roping competi- tion. The children kicked off the evening before the rodeo finals with dummy roping and a boot run. 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