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CenterStreet. Officers tried to make a traffic stop on Antelope Boulevard near Sale Lane, however, the driver refused to yield and took off in a southbound direction down Sale at 85 mph, Sgt. Mike Graham said in a release. The driver was later de- termined to be Bonner, who was on post release com- munity supervision out of Shasta County, Graham said. At the 600 block of Sale Lane, Bonner drove into a the yard of a residence, hit a fifth wheel trailer and fled the scene on foot into a nearby back yard, where he encountered and was bit- ten by the occupant's Ger- man shepherd. Bonner left the yard and ran into a nearby orchard, where he was located and taken into custody without further incident. Tehama County Sher- iff's deputies and Califor- nia Highway Patrol officers assisted with the search. No officers were injured in the incident. Bonner was taken to St. Elizabeth Community Hos- pital for medical clearance prior to being transported to the Tehama County Jail. He was booked on the fel- ony charge of evading a peace officer and misde- meanor charges of resist- ing or delaying officers and hit and run. The case regarding as- sault with a deadly weapon is still under investigation, Graham said. Bail was set at $56,000. Suspect FROMPAGE1 gation, Johnston said. It is not know at this time if al- cohol or drugs played a role in Daugherty's decision to enter the water. The department urged residents to be wary of en- tering the river. "The river can be very deceiving and has cur- rents and hazards that are unseen to anyone entering that body of water," John- ston said. Drowning FROM PAGE 1 up to 60 percent or more. Pulling out too much wa- ter too fast will result in the ground sinking or subsid- ing, according to the hand- book. The reason for the act is to manage groundwater so that in can be sustain- able for the future. A draft of what will be required of the Groundwa- ter Sustainability Plan and what the criteria will be for the plan was presented. Funding, resources and staffing will be the primary responsibility of the Flood District and will include funding for assistance with the plan's development and additional resources when needed, said manager Ryan Teubert. The act's purpose is to promote sustainable man- agement of groundwater basins, enhance local man- agement of groundwater, establish minimum stan- dards for effective continu- ous management of ground- water, provide local ground water agencies with the as- sistance needed to main- tain supplies, avoid impact for land subsidence and im- prove data collection and understanding of ground water resources and man- agement, Teubert said. "Locally, the Tehama County Flood Control and Water Conservation District has taken the lead regarding groundwater management. The (district), whose direc- tors are also the five county supervisors, proposes to be- come the Groundwater Sus- tainability Agency govern- ing body," said City Man- ager John Brewer in the agenda report. "They pro- posed each of the cities to have seats on a 'Groundwa- ter Commission;' member- ship that would be akin to a Planning Commission role." Duties would be to de- velop the plan and any fu- ture amendments and agen- cies ordinances, rules and regulations, conduct inves- tigations to determine the need for groundwater man- agement, review proposed grant applications and ad- vise the Board of Directors regarding grant funding opportunities. The agency will prepare groundwater sustainabil- ity plans that will assist the county in achieving sus- tainability within 20 years of the plan's adoption, Teu- bert said. The deadline to form the Groundwater Sustainablity Agency is June 30, 2017, but Teubert hopes to get it go- ing well before that dead- line. Water FROM PAGE 1 Fourth and Fifth streets. The announcers booth will be moving a block away from its normal location and will be in front of the Rodgers Theatre, accord- ing to the chamber's Au- gust newsletter. The top three parade winners had their names engraved on a perpet- ual plaque and were given Corning Cash in 2014. Other events will take place during the week prior to the festival, includ- ing a water festival 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Northside Park, corner of Sixth and Colusa streets. An Olive Fes- tival Mixer will take place 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 20, in the Bell Carter break room, 1012 Second St., and a farmers mar- ket will take place 5-7:30 p.m. Thursday at North- side Park. The Olive Festival itself will be 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Woodson City Park, corner of South and Peach streets, with the Corning Rotary Olive Drop taking place at 3 p.m. along with a raffle drawing and an olive spit- ting contest. Prizes from the olive drop include $500, $250 and $100 in Corning Cash. Two live bands, the Aztec Dancers and Ann's Dance Group will perform. Saturday's festivities kick off with the pancake break- fast at the Corning Volun- teer Fire Station, 814 Fifth St. There will be historic ol- ive tours at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. led by Mayor Gary Strack. The tour will include a bus ride through Corning to olive-related businesses with a prize given out on each tour. For more information, call 824-5550 or visit www. corningcachamber.org. Olive FROM PAGE 1 PLEASE RECYCLE THIS NEWSPAPER. Thank you! By Nicholas Paphitis and Dalton Bennett TheAssociatedPress KOS, GREECE Locked in a sunbaked football stadium without food, drinking wa- ter or sanitation, about 1,000 refugees queued for hours on Wednesday to register with Greek author- ities on the island of Kos, which is now at the fore- front of a humanitarian crisis sweeping the finan- cially broken country. After sending police re- inforcements, the govern- ment promised to char- ter a commercial ship to house up to 2,500 immi- grants on the island where authorities have been over- whelmed by a spike in ar- rivals. Alekos Flambouraris, an aide to the prime minister, said the vessel would be used to provide shelter and check documents. More de- tails of the plan were to be announced Thursday, his office said. The order to charter the ship was given after vio- lence broke out in front of a police station on the holi- day island, where migrants were lining up to receive temporary residence docu- ments. A football stadium is currently being used to provide shelter for about 1,000 people. Greece has become the main gateway to Europe for tens of thousands of refugees and economic migrants, mainly Syrians fleeing war, as fighting in Libya has made the alter- native route from north Africa to Italy increas- ingly dangerous. Nearly 130,000 people have ar- rived since January on the eastern Aegean Sea islands from nearby Turkey — a 750 percent increase over last year. Kos mayor Giorgos Ky- ritsis welcomed the prom- ised ship, but complained that the radical left-led government did little to help his island until Flam- bouraris stepped in. "The government was asleep," he told private Skai TV Wednesday. "How come (now) we can talk normally with one minis- ter?" Tourism-reliant Kos, which received 7,000 mi- grants last month and has seen tourist arrivals drop by about 7 percent this year, is a stark study in contrasts. Boatloads of refugees arrive in the rosy hues of dawn — as the last revelers are straggling out of night clubs and joggers run along the seafront. Mega yachts and cruise ships anchor just off the deten- tion center, refugees sleep on bicycle lanes forcing cycling tourists to swerve, and bikini-clad visitors stroll along next to a man in a traditional Iraqi dress. Scores of Syrians landed early Wednesday, crossing the 2.5-mile strait from Turkey in rubber boats — which, in many cases, local men rush to carry away for their own use. "I feel good to be here, but I still miss my family" in Syria, said Omar Mo- hammad, a 25-year-old English literature gradu- ate from Aleppo. He said the three-hour crossing from Turkey was his third attempt to reach Greece in four days. On two previous occasions, Turkish officials had pre- vented him from leaving. Unlike during past im- migration crises in Greece since the early 1990s, this time the refugees don't want to stay. Their destina- tions are wealthy countries such as Germany or the Netherlands, and all they seek from Greece is tempo- rary travel papers to con- tinue their trek through the Balkans and central Europe. So they end up in the old stadium or outside on the beachfront, in tents, or un- der trees. Inside the stadium, three police clerks were struggling to register hun- dreds of refugees, and for the second day used fire- extinguishers to control the jostling crowd. An es- timated 300 travel docu- ments were handed out by early afternoon since the morning. The office on Kos for Doctors Without Bor- ders, the medical char- ity, strongly deplored the conditions in the stadium, where most refugees were sent after being evicted from makeshift camps all around the town. "What we see now is a completely dispropor- tionate focus on security management of these peo- ple without the relative humanitarian assistance that they need," said Van- gelis Orfanoudakis from the charity, which is also known as Medecins Sans Frontieres. "There are just two toi- lets. No access to water. They now have put a wa- ter hose for all the people, the situation is really dra- matic," he said. Municipal officials weren't available to com- ment Wednesday, but have long been lobbying for the refugees to be taken to mainland Greece. Mayor Kyritsis has pledged to get them off parks and public areas. "They need to have ac- cess to health care, food, water, basic sanitation ... together with protection for their legal rights, some- thing which is not happen- ing at all here in Kos." In the Psalidi area east of Kos town, newly-arrived Syrians' first question was where they had landed — which provoked strong laughter as Kos has an ob- scene meaning in Arabic. "Aleppo is the worst city in the world," said Dirar, another English graduate who made the crossing with Mohammad's group. He didn't give his last name to protect family in Syria. "There's no electric- ity, no water, no Internet. My home was destroyed by a rocket blast," he said, showing a picture on his mobile phone of himself in the wreckage. "I was so happy to be alive that I took a selfie," he said. "From Greece, I will travel through Mace- donia, Serbia and Hungary to Germany." HUMANITARIAN CRISIS As conditions worsen, Greece promises ship to house refugees YORGOSKARAHALIS—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS A migrant is helped out of a dinghy a er crossing from Turkey to the southeastern Greek island of Kos, on Wednesday. By Emily Schmall The Associated Press ARLINGTON,TEXAS An at- torney for a Texas police of- ficer in training who fatally shot an unarmed, black college football player dur- ing a suspected burglary at a car dealership defended his client's actions Wednes- day and rebuked those of the police chief who fired him. Arlington Police Chief Will Johnson had said a day earlier that Officer Brad Miller had been fired for causing a deadly con- frontation that put him and other officers in dan- ger, including pursuing 19-year-old Christian Tay- lor without telling his su- pervisor. Miller, 49, could also face criminal charges. "Officer Miller made decisions in the heat of a violent confrontation to save his and other officers' lives," Miller's lawyer, John Snider, said in a statement. Snider says Johnson used "20/20 hindsight to protect his job and appease anti-police activists." He also said Johnson's "big- gest fears are getting a pa- per cut or losing his six-fig- ure salary." "A four day 'investiga- tion' and media theatrics are not even close to due process," Snider said. "This decision, while politically expedient for Chief John- son, is an insult to the rank-and-file officers who put their lives on the line every day." Police spokeswoman Ti- ara Richard said neither Johnson nor the depart- ment had a response to the attorney's statement. Officers had been called to the scene of a burglary at the dealership early Fri- day. Security footage from the lot shows Taylor break- ing out the windshield of a car on the lot and then driving his vehicle into the glass showroom. There is no video footage of the shooting itself. Inside the showroom, Miller ordered Taylor to get to the ground. Instead, Taylor cursed at the officer and advanced toward him. When Taylor was about 10 feet away, the officer fired, Johnson said. Taylor continued mov- ing, so Miller's training of- ficer, Cpl. Dale Wiggins, shot Taylor with a Taser. Miller then fired three more times. At least two bullets struck Taylor, kill- ing him, according to the chief, who said the inter- action lasted only sec- onds. Taylor and Miller never made physical con- tact, he said. Taylor's death came two days before the anniver- sary of the death of Mi- chael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white po- lice officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and is the lat- est in a series of incidents in which black men have been killed by police. John- son noted that communi- ties across the U.S. "have been torn apart by similar challenges." "Although the investiga- tion is not over, my hope is that the information shared today can assist in the healing process," John- son said. About 60 protesters gathered outside Arling- ton police headquarters late Tuesday, demanding that Miller, who is white, face criminal charges. The firing was "not enough justice," said Mat- thew Higgins, 20, one of Taylor's former high school classmates. "If it was a white person, it probably would have been different." The Arlington Munici- pal Patrolman's Associa- tion issued a statement de- crying Johnson's decision. The group said it supports "Miller's right to be judged fairly and completely on facts instead of a snapshot developed in only days," and expressed sympathy for Taylor's family. "We again ask that cit- izens obey the commands of police officers in order to prevent these tragedies from occurring in the fu- ture," the association said. 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