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REDBLUFF Parentswhohavelost their driver's license due to un- paid child support can get their license back after making a $25 child support payment by Sept. 30, if their case is managed by Te- hama Department of Child Sup- port Services. License suspension is an effec- tive enforcement tool used to en- courage child support payments. Under California law, parents re- quired to pay court ordered child support must pay on time and in full. If the payment is late or is not paid in full, the Department of Child Support Services can sus- pend or withhold a California driv- er's license. CHILD SUPPORT Li mi te d off er t o get license back by m ak in g payment By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF The Flame of Hope, the official torch for the Special Olympics World Games this year in Los Angeles, is scheduled to pass through Red Bluff at 4 p.m. Monday at the Tehama County Courthouse. The Law Enforcement Torch Run's Final Leg will visit over 122 cities and travel over 4,648 miles. Final Leg's mission is to create awareness and excitement for the Special Olympics and the World Games, encourage support of the Games and protect the Flame of Hope until the lighting of the cauldron at the opening cere- mony. Attending the event and speak- ing at the ceremony here will be Mayor Clay Parker, Police Chief Kyle Sanders, Special Olym- pics athlete and Final Leg run- ners Jazmine Slama and law en- forcement representative Jeannie Smith. The city welcomes the law en- forcement officers who serve as the Guardians of the Flame of Hope and the Special Olympics athletes as they will be partici- pating in the event. EVENT Official torch for Special Olympics comes to town By Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press BERRYESSA SNOW MOUNTAIN NA- TIONAL MONUMENT As a stretch of gold and green coastal range spanning more than 100 miles became California's newest na- tional monument on Friday, ge- ologist Bob Schneider couldn't stop himself from jigging for joy. "I'm doing little Snoopy dances," Schneider said just before the cer- emony in Washington where Pres- ident Barack Obama established the Berryessa Snow Mountain Na- tional Monument — 331,000 acres that cover inner-coast mountains, wetlands and waterways and are home to bears, otters, eagles and a host of other wildlife. With the preservation from de- velopment that the designation as a monument brings, "I'm happy that my grandchild will be able to come here and visit this place" in decades to come, said Schnei- der, who has climbed the region's peaks for half a century. Obama created the new Cali- fornia national monument Friday along with one in Texas and an- other in Nevada, altogether pro- tecting more than 1 million acres. With Friday's signing, Obama now has made 19 national monu- ments, using his executive powers after opposition from some Re- publican lawmakers slowed con- gressional designations of new conservation areas. BERRYESSA Rangereceivesmonumentstatus LakeBerryessais seen with parts of California's newest national monument in the background, on Friday near Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument. ERIC RISBERG — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF The Veterans Ser- vice Office will be holding an open house on July 22 for the new office it shares with the Te- hama County Law Library, in- side of the Bank of America building at 955 Main St., Suite C, and the public is invited to attend. The veterans collaborative in the area is hosting the event. "We want to get people to come in and take a look," said Veterans Service Officer Kelly Osborne. "We're hoping that we will have people who come in that have questions that we can connect them with our services. We also want people to see it and to thank everyone that has helped the Veterans Service Of- fice — to get the word out and increase the number of veterans coming in to the office." Osborne, who comes to the county position after serving in the Coast Guard, wants people to know that her position is now full-time and the office now has adequate space for her organi- zation's needs, she said. "There's a nice waiting area for people to sit in and stay cool while waiting that we didn't have before," Osborne said. "We also have two private offices and a conference room. The new of- fice is wonderful. It's fully Amer- icans with Disabilities Act com- pliant, had level parking and good ADA access. All the veter- ans love it when they see it — and that they have a place to wait and get water." Osborne's co-worker had to resign in January due to health issues, so in March the Te- hama County Board of Super- visors approved changing from two part-time positions to one full-time. In the meantime, Bev Holden, who used to work out of the Shasta County Veterans Service Office in Redding, has been helping with the office and her position is funded through December. "(Holden's) help is amazing," Osborne said. "She's taken over a lot of the things like ordering of medical records and income verification so I can focus on the claims. This has been an incred- ible year and the community is awesome. We've had so much help from the veterans organi- zations, the community and the business community. Everyone collectively has helped to get us to this place a year later." The Veterans Service Office is available to help veterans and their dependents with Veterans Affairs pension claims and en- roll them in health care. The office will receive about $20,000 in Proposition 63 money sometime in the fall. That money will allow the office to hire a part-time Veterans Ser- vice Representative who would be available October through June to focus on mental health issues, such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, veterans who have been incarcerated and homeless veterans. "The focus will be to meet and work with local mental health and drug and alcohol depart- ments and partner with local resources in addition to those in the Redding and Chico Vet- erans Affairs offices," Osborne said. "I'm continually amazed how generous everyone is when- ever I ask for help. It really has been an incredible year and it's all a result of the community pulling together." 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