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WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 29, 2012 Breaking news at: www.redbluffdailynews.com See Inside RED BLUFF Red Bluff 2012 Area Guide Season Opener SPORTS 1B Showers likely 47/37 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 Keswick flows cut Man busted after breaking in to wrong building By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A Corning man was arrested Monday after it was discovered he had broken a window in the 1300 block of Solano Street in an attempt to break into a build- ing to steal marijuana. Sergio Bobadilla Meza, 26, was being questioned by Corn- ing police about 11 a.m. on a separate theft when an officer asked to see the bottom of his shoe and noticed the print looked like the pattern from an earlier incident. Officers detained Meza and took him to H&R Block, 1315 Solano St., to compare his shoe to a print left on the rear door that had been kicked in. Damages were Meza See BUSTED, page 7A Dynamite found in barn, destroyed The Tehama County The Sacramento River flows through the open Red Bluff Diversion Dam in this Daily News file photo. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Keswick Dam reduced the amount of water released over the weekend, starting Saturday and ending Monday, going from 5,000 cubic feet per second (cfs) to 4,500 cfs. The amount was recently increased to meet requirements of Delta Outflow and decreased once requirements were met, said Larry Ball, operations and electrical maintenance chief of the Northern California Bureau of Reclamation Area Office. The Delta Outflow is the amount of flow needed to keep salt water intrusion from happening at the coast, which keeps the water quali- ty good, Ball said. "There is a certain amount need- ed, figured on a monthly average, and we were exceeding that this month so we increased the releases up to 5,000 cfs last week," Ball said. "We started cutting Saturday, ending Monday morning at 4,500 cfs." The release was cut back slowly going from 5,000 cfs to 4,900 cfs at 1 a.m. Saturday, with two cuts from 4,900 to 4,800 at 1 a.m. and 4,800 to 4,700 at 2 a.m. Sunday and the final cuts from 4,700 to 4,600 at 1 a.m. and 4,600 to 4,500 at 2 a.m. on Monday. "The increase and cut adjustment on the Delta Outflow relief were done in a way to avoid fish strand- ing," Ball said. "Cuts were done per the biological opinion and done slowly to avoid hurting fish." The delta outflow is more critical as it moves into spring because there is pumping down and irriga- tion in addition to trying to keep the Romney sweeps to double Republican primary victory WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney scored a hard-won, home state tri- umph in Michigan and pow- ered to victory in Arizona Tuesday night, gaining a two-state primary sweep over Rick Santorum and pre- cious momentum in the most turbulent Republican presi- dential race in a generation. "We didn't win by a lot, but we won by enough," Romney told cheering sup- porters in Michigan. He also tweeted his delight — and his determination: "I take great pride in my Michigan roots, and am humbled to have received so much sup- port here these past few weeks. On to the March con- tests." Santorum was already campaigning in Ohio, one of the Super Tuesday states, when the verdict came in from Michigan. "A month ago they didn't know who we are, but they do now," he told his own supporters, vowing to stay the conservative course he has set. The two other candidates, Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul, made little effort in either state, pointing instead to next week's 10-state col- lection of Super Tuesday pri- maries and caucuses. Romney's Arizona tri- umph came in a race that was scarcely contested, and he pocketed all of the 29 Republican National Con- vention delegates at stake in the winner-take-all state. Michigan was as different as could be — a hard-fought and expensive battle in Rom- ney's home state that he could ill afford to lose and Santorum made every effort to win. Returns from 82 percent of Michigan's precincts showed Romney at 41 per- cent and Santorum at 38 per- cent. Paul was winning 12 percent of the vote to 7 per- cent for Gingrich. In Ari- zona, with votes counted from 52 percent of the precincts, Romney had 48 percent, Santorum 26, Gin- grich 16 percent and Paul 8 percent. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Red Bluff Outdoor Power temperature colder, starting in mid- April, for the fish, he said. "The bottom line is as we get further into spring, we see more demand including the farmer's irri- gating and the temperature for the fish," Ball said. "It only goes up from here depending on the rainfall and how soon it gets hot. The hope is we'll get more rain to meet the delta outflow with rainfall coming into the river system." Right now, the bureau is trying to conserve as much of the water as it can in Lake Shasta, he said. The change in water flow is a concern for those involved with fish. "They're planning to start releas- ing less water (Monday) and this, combined with the lack of rain and inflow with the tributaries between See FLOWS, page 7A Sheriff's Department was called out just after 1 p.m. Monday to the 21000 block of Sacramento Avenue, south of Red Bluff, after a man found explosives in the barn. Melcor Avila called the Tehama County Sheriff's Office at 1:02 p.m. and reported he found a box with dynamite in it. Avila was cleaning out a barn where items belonging to his father had been taken from a res- idence in Nevada and stored after his father's death five years ago. Avila told deputies his father was in the land- scape rock business prior to his death and had used explosives in his work. Deputies responded and found a box contain- ing 10-15 sticks of dyna- mite. They contacted the Shasta County Sheriff's bomb unit at 1:56 p.m. to request assistance with recovery and disposal of the dynamite. Logs show the bomb squad arrived at 3:59 p.m. and that a voluntary evac- uation of the residence and a neighboring resi- dence was completed at 4:54 p.m. Residents of the area were advised of the incident by a reverse 911 call about 5 p.m. The dynamite was dis- posed of without further incident. Monday's incident is the second within a week to summon the Shasta County bomb unit. What Red Bluff police suspected to be a bomb Saturday morning turned out to be harmless after being checked out by the See BARN, page 7A Man hopes donation will prompt others to give By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer After reading in the Daily News about the plight of the McGlynn Pool, a Red Bluff man gave $1,000 to the cause. Greel F. Foshee, who has always seen swim- ming as a worthwhile ath- letic endeavor for him, his wife and children, pledged to help support the city pool as much as he can. "The McGlynn Pool has been an erstwhile pro- ject of this community for years," Foshee wrote in a letter to the Blues for the Pool committee. "It must not be allowed to decay and have the youth of this community suffer the loss of its many benefits." Foshee, a World War II Navy veteran, moved to Red Bluff in 1980 after a career as a captain and co- pilot with United Airlines. Turning 87 in June, Foshee was with the air- line for nearly 40 years before he retired, he said. "I never blew a tire, damaged an aircraft or incurred any injury to a passenger or flight crew, male or female," he said. Throughout is life, Foshee valued swimming for its physical and mental health benefits, he wrote. So he installed a pool in Daily News photo by Andrea Wagner Red Bluff's Greel Foshee donated $1,000 to Blues for the Pool after reading about the city's financial strain to open the community pool this summer. Debbie Carlisi, parks and recreation supervisor, accept- ed the check on behalf of the committee. his homes early on for his wife and children. "We were always worth the investment and so was the pool," Foshee said. Foshee's wife, who passed away just a few years ago, was injured in a car accident when they moved to Tehama County and the home pool was See GIVE, page 7A PHYSICIAN REFERRAL A FREE SERVICE PROVIDED FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE 1-800-990-9971