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WEDNESDAY MARCH 14, 2012 Breaking news at: All Kale Breaks Loose Country Fare www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 5A RED BLUFF Spartan Golf SPORTS 1B Showers likely 59/48 Weather forecast 8B By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer The Red Bluff City Council with some hesitation March 6 approved an increase in police and fire department user fees. Overall the fees include four years of rate increases, com- pounded to about 16 percent, after postponing them for the 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 City votes to hike police, fire, animal fees last three years. "This is a chance to be fair, but to keep up with increasing costs," said Police Chief Paul Nanfito. Some of the increases include concealed weapons per- mit fees, which will increase from $160 to $186, fire report copy fees, which will go from $9 to $10 for the first four 'These are revenue sources we so dearly need in the city' — Councilman Bob Carrel pages, parking fines, which will increase from $31 to $36, and Ride For Life other incremental increases that were calculated based on a 2005 user fee study. New fees added for the fire department are based on some inspections now being done by the division chief that were for- merly done by a fire marshal, said Chief Michael Bachmeyer. Notable increases at the police department have to do See CITY, page 7A Vandals hit car dealership By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — Police are asking for information about a burglary and vandalism of 26 vehicles at Corn- ing Ford, 2288 Short Drive, with damage estimated to be about $63,000. Officers were sent to the business about 7:45 a.m. Monday and discovered a chain to the Short Drive entrance had been cut along with a lock on the Edith See VANDALS, page 7A Suspect arrested in theft, vandalism By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer Courtesy photo Participants ride the track at the 2011 Northern California HERO Ride For Live event.The 2012 event is April 7 at the Tehama District Fairground. By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The fourth annual Northern Cal- ifornia HERO Ride For Life is almost here and auction and raffle items are needed for the April 7 event at the Tehama District Fair- ground. "We hope you will join us," said Bailey Brownfield, co-founder of the event. "What started as a small 4-H project has grown into a popu- lar event in the North State to bene- fit the American Cancer Society." Brownfield and Jessica Mcdon- ald started the event in 2009 as their Emerald Star project for 4-H and the event has drawn riders from all over. In 2010, Taylor Collins joined the two girls in organizing the event. "The 2011 event brought about 300 riders," Collins said. "Since the beginning about $100,000 has been donated to the American Cancer Society to assist in the fight against cancer and finding a cure." The event has drawn riders from beyond Tehama County, including participants from Butte, Shasta, Glenn, Sutter and Humboldt coun- ties in past years, Mcdonald said. "HERO Ride For Life opens up a whole new opportunity for bringing together an untouched group of people under one cause," Mcdonald said. "Never before have horse peo- WASHINGTON (AP) — A resurgent Rick Santorum swept to victory in primaries in Alabama and Mississippi Tuesday night, upending the race for the Republican presi- dential nomination yet again and trying to nudge Newt Gin- grich toward the sidelines. Mitt Romney was running third in both states. ''We did it again,'' Santorum told cheering supporters in Lafayette, La. He added, ''Now is the time for conservatives to pull together'' in an effort to defeat Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who still is the faraway leader in the delegate competition to pick an opponent to President Barack Obama in the fall. In defeat, Romney issued a brief written statement con- gratulating the night's big winner but also saying, ''I am pleased that we will be increasing our delegate count in a very substantial way after tonight.'' In the hours before the votes were counted, he had bristled that Santorum was ''at the desperate end of his campaign.'' While Romney must regroup, it was Gingrich with the most to lose as he struggled for political survival in a part of the country he hoped would fuel one more comeback in the unpredictable race. Appearing before supporters in Birming- ham, Ala., Gingrich twice referred to remaining in the marathon contest. But he was unusually complimentary toward Santorum, a contrast to pokes at Romney. ''If you're the front-runner and you keep coming in third, you're not much of a front-runner,'' he said. ple of every discipline been able to join together and fight for one cause." The event, co-sponsored by the Northern California Reined Cow Horse Association, is the second in the entire nation to be established. Holly LaCount started the first event in Humboldt County in 2004 as a community service project for school. "The relay reminds us that progress has been made in the fight against cancer and that everyone who participates is making a differ- ence," Mcdonald said. Teams consist of five to eight See RIDE, page 7A A transient man out of the Redding area was arrested Monday in con- nection with a Feb. 14 burglary and a March 10 vandalism. Steven Tim- hand. The woman Rowens othy Rowens, 28, was iden- tified as the suspect in the Feb. 14 incident using a photographic line-up and the March 10 incident from a still photograph of video surveillance, Red Bluff Police Sgt. Kevin Busekist said. On Feb. 14, police responded to the 1300 block of Johnson Street, where a 58-year-old woman reported a man, later identified as Rowens, was seen climbing out her window with a purse in his discovered her purse, worth about $300 and containing identification and prescrip- tions, was missing. Rowens was identified by witnesses through a pho- tographic line-up, but was not located by officers at the time, Busekist said. About 8 a.m. Saturday, Red Bluff Police were sent to Red Bluff Union High School for vandalism in which someone damaged five air conditioners. Dam- age was estimated at $15,000. On Monday, School Resource Officer Aaron Murray was advised of the incident and got video sur- veillance of the school, See SUSPECT, page 7A Santorum sweeps the South Jobless rate inches up in January By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer The Tehama County unemploy- ment rate has risen from 14.6 per- cent in December to 14.9 percent in January, but the county has gone up from 39 to 37 in the state, according to January numbers released Friday by the Employment Development Department. The EDD ranks unemployment rates for 58 counties. At 14.9 percent unemployment, Tehama County is higher than Shasta County, ranked 35 at 14.3 percent, and Butte County, ranked 30 at 13.7 percent, but lower than Glenn County, 45 at 16.8 percent. The highest unemployment rate is Colusa County, at 27 percent, just barely above Imperial County, which has been ranked 58 for sever- al months, dropping to rank 57 at 26.4 percent. Merced County at 19.5 percent, Sutter County at 19.4 percent and Trinity County at 19.3 percent round out the top five highest coun- ties. The lowest unemployment rate was Marin County at 6.6 percent followed by San Mateo County, 7.2 percent; Orange County, 8 percent; San Francisco, 8.1 percent; and Santa Clara, 8.8 percent. California unemployment, which remained at 10.9 percent for November and December, was up 0.4 percent going to 11.3 percent, but is still lower than the 12.7 per- cent for January 2011. Nationwide unemployment, which increased 0.1 percent from November to December, continued to rise, going from 8.3 in December to 8.8 in January, but is lower than the 9.8 percent unemployment of January 2011. Tehama County numbers show a 1.8 percent decrease in overall industries between January 2011 and 2012, however, several show a slight increase. Mining and logging were up 1 percent for the year and manufac- turing showed a 1.3 percent increase with a 1.9 percent increase in durable goods and a 2 percent increase in non-durable goods. The only other increase for the year was a 1.9 percent increase in leisure and hospitality. State and local government jobs decreased 1 percent for the year, but increased 0.3 percent for January. The biggest decrease for the ——— Julie Zeeb can be reached at 527-2153, extension 115 or jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com. Follow her on Twitter @DN_Zeeb. year was professional and busi- ness services, which went down 11.1 percent. Construction was the biggest decrease for the month of January, going down 7.1 per- cent. Man arrested after brandishing handgun at apartment complex A 24-year-old Red Bluff man was arrested early Tuesday in an apartment complex in the 400 block of Walnut Street after waving a gun around during a distur- bance. Red Bluff Police logs 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 show someone reported a person, possibly under the influence of drugs, was waving a gun around. Officers were sent at 12:55 a.m. to the com- plex, where witnesses said Kelley Joseph Scott was waving a gun around while standing outside the apartment complex. While talking with witnesses, Scott, who had gone into his apartment prior to officer arrival, came outside with his hands raised and was detained and searched. He admitted to having a loaded handgun, described as a .380 semi- automatic pistol, in pub- lic view while outside the apartment complex. The gun, which he admitted to previously having con- cealed on his person, was retrieved with Scott's assistance and he was place under arrest. Scott was booked into Tehama County Jail on the charges of carrying a concealed firearm and carrying a loaded firearm in public. Bail was set at $2,000. —Julie Zeeb