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FRIDAY MARCH 9, 2012 Breaking news at: SERRF Students honor Director Education Page www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 6A RED BLUFF Junior Olympics SPORTS 1B Weather forecast 10A Sunny 70/43 By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Thomas Sherman Endicott was sentenced Thursday to eight years in state prison with a three-year term of supervised release to follow for one count 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 Endicott to serve eight years on sex crime of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in crimi- nal sexual activity. The 74-year-old former Richfield resident and business- man agreed to plead guilty to the single count involving one of the victims from the original six counts in a Dec. 21, 2011 agreement with the US Attor- ney's Office. Endicott, arrested March 30, 2009, near the Red Bluff Diver- sion Dam, was in Sacramento County Jail where he was held without bail since he entered a not guilty plea at his March 31, 2009 arraignment. He was charged with six counts of transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sex- ual activity. The original six counts were dismissed upon the acceptance City ramps up plans of the plea agreement and the sentencing. Endicott will be moved to a federal prison, said Department of Justice Media Specialist Lau- ren Horwood. See SEX, page 9A Mountain lion spotted in RB Staff report Police officers confirmed the sighting of a mountain lion Thursday afternoon behind businesses in the Adobe Plaza on the north end of Red Bluff. Responding to the scene around 12:30 p.m., officers spotted the animal sleeping in a wooded area next to a large alfalfa field, according to a Red Bluff Police See LION, page 9A Students bring pot brownies to middle school By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Daily News photo The boat launch at River Park has been high and dry since the draining of Lake Red Bluff this summer. By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff River Park boat launch facility may get rejuvenated if proposed grants come through. Scot Timboe, city planning director, asked the City Council Tuesday to approve agreements that could allow speedy action to get emergency grant funding for the first phase of the project. "It's an opportunity we can't pass up," Timboe said. Engineers working with the city have proposed several designs, one of which would create a gravel access road from the existing con- crete ramp across the now dry bot- tom of Lake Red Bluff for boaters to connect to a new river access point. The new ramp at the water's new edge, some 300 feet from the exist- ing boat launch, would be made of a prefabricated concrete mat, called Armorflex. An identical material was used under the South Bonnyview Road bridge in Redding. Stoll Engineering, the consultant behind the design who was also the team who worked on several other Northstate waterway construction projects, has estimated costs for this phase one are roughly $163,000, made up of $120,000 for design, construction, inspection and contin- gency funds, and about $40,000 for applications, assessments and engi- neering support. In the city's proposal to the Department of Boating and Water- ways, planners stated that repairs and changes to the launch could be completed as early as Jan. 31, 2013. The River Park boat ramp was left literally high and dry when the Red Bluff Diversion Dam was decommissioned in 2011 and the waters of the Sacramento River were channeled permanently away from the access point. Since much of the city's econo- my became enmeshed with river access and the annual Red Bluff boat drag races, the now defunct boat launch area is an economic See RAMPS, page 9A The Corning Union Elementary School Dis- trict staff is upset at the reaction some of its par- ents had to a Feb. 10 situ- ation involving confiden- tial discipline of a student suspended for bringing marijuana-laced brownies to school. "It is unfortunate and disturbing that a group of parents without the knowledge of the confi- dential student discipline issue took it upon them- selves to inaccurately report the situation to the media," said District Superintendent Dr. Catherine Reimer. "It is even more disturbing that the news channel, after having gathered accurate information from school officials, failed to accu- rately report the informa- tion to the injury of the minor child and his fami- ly." KRCR Channel 7 broadcast the story Wednesday evening and reported the child was the son of a district board member. Reimer declined to give the student's grade or confirm that the student was a board member's child. "Kids do make mis- takes," Reimer said. "The name is out there and I can't do anything about it, but that information is confidential." The incident involved a total of five students at Maywood Middle School and was reported to school administrators, who started an investiga- tion into it as soon as the incident was reported, Reimer said. "They were individual- ly questioned and the young man was honest and forthcoming and admitted to what he had done," Reimer said. "There was no marijuana found by school officials, therefore law enforcement was not notified. With lack of evidence we had to go with student reports." None of the students See POT, page 9A Major injuries in Local artist creates prints for vineyard DUI on motorcycle By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer A 22-year-old Cot- tonwood man was flown to Mercy Medical Center in Redding with major injuries following a col- lision at 5:45 p.m. Wednesday on Farquhar Road, north of Bowman Road. Robert Beaugrand was driving his 2005 Viva Phantom Motorcy- cle north on Farquhar with Kelly Walker, 27, of Cottonwood driving a 2007 Yamaha Rhino in the lane next to him, both about 25 mph. Due to Beaugrand's level of intoxication, he allowed his motorcycle to drift left, causing the handlebars to hit Derek McAlister, 24, of Cot- tonwood who was a pas- senger on Walker's Rhino, California High- way Patrol Officer Phillip Mackintosh said. The impact caused Beaugrand to lose con- trol of his motorcycle, which overturned, throwing him onto the road where he hit his head on the asphalt, Mackintosh said. Beau- grand, who landed a short distance from the motorcycle, which had moderate damage, was not wearing a helmet. Beaugrand was arrest- ed, but released to Mercy for treatment of injuries. Charges of DUI and blood alcohol content over .08 are pending, Mackintosh said. ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews .com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 VINA — In conjunc- tion with this month's release of its 2007 Abbot's Reserve wine, New Clairvaux Vineyard is unveiling the second of four limited edition signed prints created by local artist John Adams. The wine and prints will be available to the public at a wine tasting event 5:30-8 p.m. Friday, March 16 at the winery. The celebration of the two releases continues 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 17- 18. The Abbot's Reserve print features an illustra- tion of a monk tasting a sample of wine in the winery's barrel room. Adams has been commis- sioned to create a series of four illustrations, with 200 limited edition prints for each design. The prints retail for $85 and can be purchased at the winery. Adams's work is inspired by the bucolic setting of the monastery and winery in Vina. The land is situated on what was once Leland Stan- ford's Great Vina Ranch and the world's largest winery operation in the 1890s. Adams has also been inspired by his work alongside the 22 monks and his wife, NCV wine- maker Aimée Sunseri for the past seven years. Adams has played a key role in the winery's mar- keting and winemaking process. "The landscape of these historical grounds and the commitment and dedication of the monks to preserve their craft and the longtime history of Vina's winemaking tradi- tion continue to amaze me," says Adams. Adams other print already released features illustra- tions of the St. James block vineyard. The next Intermediate Thursday, March 15TH 8:30 am to 12:30 pm $65.00 per person Job Training Center 718 Main St., Red Bluff Call 529-7000 print will be released in August at the annual Blessing of the Grapes ceremony and it will fea- ture the Poor Souls Vine- yard. Adams has been a designer and illustrator for hundreds of compa- nies from Adobe, Disney, the U.S. Defense Depart- ment and Zondervan. He learned his skills from his grandfather, who was an artist for Disney and had a Sunday morning comic strip next to Hank Ketcham's "Dennis the Menace." Adams lives in Chico with his wife and daughter.