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DavidFerreirasaidthathis own son was one of those who did not make the cut in poultry. One of the chickens had a wing that had been broken and even though it had healed, there was still bruising from it, which brought about a disqualifi- cation, Ferreira said. The auction and 4-H and FFA are great for the ex- hibitors because they offer a learning experience. In the case of his son, it was a lesson in sportsmanship of going back in to shake the judges hands even though his animal was rejected, Ferreira said. Preliminary numbers for the sale show a total of $760,000 was spent, compared to last year's to- tal of $701,000, Collins said. "The community really came through," Collins said. "They are amazing." Final results, averages and high selling informa- tion will be published upon receipt. JLA FROMPAGE1 officer in the vehicle at the apartment complex and the officer noticed Hawkins was not wearing any pants, just a tank top and his under- wear. Hawkins did not want to provide his name to the officer and sped away. Dur- ing the pursuit Hawkins drove through a fence and onto the runway at the Red Bluff Municipal Airport. He exited the runway by driv- ing through another fence into private property. Hawkins abandoned the car and started to flee by foot into Red Bank Creek. A perimeter was set up and Hawkins was located as a passenger in another vehi- cle. The driver he was with was contacted by Hawkins for a ride. Hawkins was arrested and booked into Tehama County Jail for vandal- ism, resisting a peace offi- cer, possession of drug par- aphernalia, driving under the influence of a controlled substance and possession of stolen property. He had four outstanding warrants, ac- cording to the release. Hawkins was trans- ported to the hospital where he was medically cleared. Bail was set at $42,000. Personnel from the Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County District Attorney bureau of inves- tigations, Tehama County Sheriff's Department, Cali- fornia Highway Patrol and the probation department responded. The investiga- tion is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call the police depart- ment at 527-3131. Arrest FROM PAGE 1 Diamond Avenue in Red Bluff was also quickly con- tained. A third fire, near I-5 and Montgomery Road quickly spread to a nearby struc- ture and grass. The Mont- gomery fire was contained at 10 acres with one struc- ture lost and one damaged. Another new fire was reported around 3:15 p.m. on I-5 near Liberal Avenue in the south Corning area. The fire was contained at seven acres. No cause has been de- termined. Units responded from Redding Air Attack, Vina Helitack, Red Bluff City, Corning City, Paynes Creek, Antelope, Red Bank, Baker, Bowman, Paskenta, Elk Creek, El Camino, Los Molinos, Richfield, Corn- ing, and Shasta and Las- sen counties. Fires FROM PAGE 1 COURTESYPHOTOBYROSSPALUBESKI A firefighter battles a blaze on Montgomery Road in Red Bluff on Sunday a ernoon. StaffReport RED BLUFF A 79-year- old Red Bluff man was ar- rested early Saturday in a domestic dispute in which initial reports at 3:02 a.m. were of shots fired in the 1200 block of Aloha Court. Officers were sent to the domestic disturbance and upon arrival officers con- tacted the victim, who re- ported her husband, Ed Stricker, had threatened to kill her while holding a shotgun inside the resi- dence, according to a re- lease issued by Red Bluff Police Department. At one point, Stricker at- tempted to point the shot- gun at the victim when she tried to take it away from him, the release said. A struggle ensued during which time Stricker fired one shot, which struck the ceiling. The victim was able to get the shotgun away from Stricker, but he slapped her on the face. The vic- tim was able to flee the residence. Stricker was arrested and booked into the Te- hama County Jail on charges of criminal threats, domestic battery and discharge a firearm in a gross negligent manner. DISPUTE Gunshot fired in Aloha Street domestic In Friday's front page article on the gradua- tion ceremony held for California Highway Pa- trol Explorers, the name of Randy Reynolds was omitted. In Friday's Fair page ar- ticle on Makerspace a date was incorrect. The Film Festival will be at 6 p.m. Oct. 9 at the State Theatre in Red Bluff. The Daily News regrets the errors. Correction By Amanda Lee Myers The Associated Press LOSANGELES A settlement between the federal gov- ernment and Los Angeles County fails to require ad- equate services for mentally ill and homeless inmates af- ter their release, perpetuat- ing the cycle between Skid Row and jail cells, accord- ing to a legal action filed by former prisoners on Mon- day. The action, a motion to intervene filed in federal court, argues that the De- partment of Justice settle- ment fails to address the needs of mentally ill pris- oners in the Los Angeles County jail system, the na- tion's largest. The motion seeks to modify the Sept. 3 settle- ment to beef up provisions requiring the county to pro- vide inmates with access to medical and mental health services. "The continuous jail-to- Skid Row-to-jail cycle re- sponsible for the perpetua- tion of our crisis of home- lessness is the shame of our community," said Mark Rosenbaum, one of the at- torneys who filed the mo- tion. County spokesman Joel Sappell said the county had not had an opportunity to review the action and would have no comment. A spokeswoman for the Justice Department said the department would re- view the motion. Under the settlement, the county is required to con- duct discharge planning for mentally ill inmates who are being released, and pro- vide them with information about mental health provid- ers. But in practice, that of- ten means handing inmates with a list of providers and releasing them with little more than the clothes on their backs and no trans- portation, Rosenbaum said. "This protocol is a mean- ingless gesture for paranoid schizophrenics or others who are severely mentally ill, who are mentally and psychiatrically incapable of deciphering such a list or navigating what must be done to receive services or medications," Rosenbaum said. "It's the equivalent of handing out lists written in hieroglyphics." Moreover, he said the providers listed are fre- quently overburdened and unable to help new clients. LePriest Valentine, a 42-year-old former Skid Row resident who said he went to county jail three times last year for petty theft, said that each time he was released, no one gave him information about ser- vices or prescriptions for his bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Valentine, one of the peo- ple filing Monday's action, said it was only through a cousin living on Skid Row that he learned about a pro- gram that provides housing and services to the mentally ill in Los Angeles. Now Valentine said he's managing his illnesses with medication, working part- time and planning on re- turning to school to become a full-time social worker to help people like him. Without the program that got him out of Skid Row, Valentine said he'd probably still be cycling between the jail and the street. "You're trying, but a cou- ple more days you're out there and then the des- peration kicks in and you go back to your desperate acts," he said. "It's like go- ing back into the fire." MENTALLY DISABLED Former Los Angeles county inmates file action over treatment By Julie Carr Smyth The Associated Press COLUMBUS, OHIO A group of U.S. drilling states, seis- mologists, academics and industry experts issued guidance Monday in a frank new report on handling hu- man-induced earthquakes caused by hydraulic frac- turing or the disposal of fracking wastewater. The 150-page report, pro- duced by the StatesFirst ini- tiative, represents perhaps the most candid discussion on the topic since trem- ors across the mid-conti- nent — including in Okla- homa, Texas, Colorado and Ohio — began being linked to fracking and deep-injec- tion wastewater disposal around 2009. It includes descriptions of how states handled various seismic incidents around the country, including their public relations strategies, and matter-of-factly refer- ences links between frack- ing or deep-injection waste- water disposal and earth- quakes. Previously, public admissions had been fuzzy in some cases. The group stopped short of suggesting model regula- tions, however. That's because each state's laws and geography are unique, Ohio Oil & Gas Chief Rick Simmers, who co-chaired the effort, told The Associated Press. The report says "a one-size-fits- all approach would not be an effective tool for state regulators." Simmers said the report is in the form of a primer, providing states with up-to-date scientific and technical data, case studies and several sug- gested approaches for de- tecting and managing the quakes. Fracking involves blasting water and chemi- cals into shale formations to fracture the rock and re- lease oil, natural gas and natural gas liquids trapped inside. The process involves thousands of gallons of wa- ter that becomes contami- nated and must be trucked offsite and deposited at spe- cial deep-injection facilities. Both processes have been associated with human-in- duced tremors, including some easily felt by people. Simmers said the report conveys a plethora of im- portant information, direct- ing states on such issues as siting, well depth, construc- tion methods, faults present at the site and how to judge an area's seismic history. "Those two oil-and-gas activities do create some seismicity. It is very rare. If you compare it to the amount of fluid that's in- jected for disposal or the amount of fluid and the number of jobs that occur for hydraulic fracturing, it's very rare. But it does occur," Simmers said. "It is safe. We monitor the operations very carefully as do our counter- parts in other states." The working group arose after Ohio's discovery in April 2014 of a probable link between fracking and five small tremors in east- ern Ohio near Youngstown. It was the first time in the Northeast that the new oil- and-gas drilling technique that had been sweeping the country had been linked to seismic activity, the second time in the U.S. and only the fourth time worldwide. Earlier, Ohio Gov. John Kasich had halted disposal of fracking wastewater sur- rounding a well site in the same region after a series of earthquakes later tied to a deep-injection well caused a public outcry. The StatesFirst coali- tion partnered with the In- terstate Oil and Gas Com- pact Commission and the Ground Water Protection Council in the effort, which began last year. The group gathered the most current science on the issue as a service to the 13 participating states: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Col- orado, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming. Many have not experienced any earth- quakes induced by frack- ing or wastewater disposal, but the report urges them to put regulations and pro- cedures in place for dealing with any eventual incidents, including strategies for re- laying the information to the public. "Induced seismicity is a complex issue where the base of knowledge is chang- ing rapidly," said Kansas Geological Survey interim director Rex Buchanan, a working group co-chair. "State regulatory agencies that deal with potential in- jection-induced seismicity should be prepared to use tools, knowledge, and ex- pertise — many of which are offered in this primer — to prepare for and respond to (any) occurrences." The report focuses pri- marily on deep injection wells for drilling waste- water, known as Class II wells. The vast majority of such wells have never been tied to earthquakes, but it is more likely that a tremor would come from one of those wells than from a hy- draulically fractured well. Wastewater contain- ing chemicals, brine, nat- urally occurring radiation and mud is injected di- rectly into basement rocks or into overlying formations that contain crevices into the basement rock. When this occurs near a sensitive fault, tremors can occur. 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