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This week's Tehama County most wanted sub- ject is Matthew Christo- pher Norried, 33, from Redding. Norriedisalsoknownto reside in Tehama County. Norried has a no bail felony warrant for his ar- rest for a weapons viola- tion. Norried's physical de- scription is a white male adult, 5 feet, 6 inches, 215 pounds, brown hair, green eyes. A n y o n e with infor- mation re- garding Nor- ried's where- abouts can call any local law enforce- ment agency at any time or during business hours cancalltheTehamaCounty District Attorney's Bureau of Investigations Office at 530 529-3590. All callers will remain confidential. MOSTWANTED Matthew Christopher Norried Norried The event is aimed at connecting people in new ways and shedding light on issues affecting the youth as well as celebrating the good work being done in so many areas, Garcia said. Thursday's theme was built around the Maker movement, which brought several Maker Space lo- cations throughout the county, said Kate Grissom, of the leadership team. Heidi Mendenhall, a Cal- ifornia Preschool Instruc- tional Network manager, explained to attendees the World Cafe, where present- ers would gather to allow the audience to come talk to them during breaks. Tehama County Director of Social Services Amanda Sharp talked about a pov- erty awareness campaign the Community Action Agency launched in Au- gust along with one from Red Bluff High School. "It's an effort to raise awareness on informa- tion on poverty, ending in a symposium in March," Sharp said. "We want to bring people to understand why people make the de- cisions they do when they are in poverty. Our key concern is the lack of un- derstanding, not just who is in poverty, but what it means to be poor." The definition of pov- erty is whether or not one can afford just the basics, Sharp said. The average cost for a family of four is $60,000 a year, while the average in- come in Tehama County is $40,000 a year. About 15 percent of Californians are at or below the poverty line and in Tehama County it's 20 percent, which would be significantly higher with- out assistance programs. Author and journalist Sasha Abramsky spoke about how the unemploy- ment rates are more in line with pre-recession norms, but don't take into account the percentage of people who lost their jobs but are no longer actively seeking employment because they are discouraged "The real jobless num- bers are frighteningly high," Abramsky said. "The jobs are also paying much lower median wage than the wages before the econ- omy sank by about 16 per- cent. The 2008 wage was al- ready much lower than that of even 5 to 10 years before." About 50 million, or one in six, Americans are be- low the federal govern- ment definition of poverty, Abramsky said. People in places like Northern Cali- fornia are trapped in these jobs because the lack of educated, skilled laborers keeps the better jobs from coming here. "These problems pre- ceded 2008," Ambrasky said. "They were made worse by, but none of the problems were created by, the 2008 crisis. It's a crisis of decades." Kim Clawson, a librarian at Red Bluff High School, is a part of the group work- ing on poverty awareness. Part of the campaign was a book in common project that had students reading "The Glass Castle," a mem- oir of a girl living in pov- erty due to her parent's choices. "We wanted a story we can relate to, learn from and that would unite us," Clawson said. There have been discussions, art proj- ects and poetry inspired by the book. Nicki Johnson, a 2001 Corning Union High School graduate, told her story of growing up in pov- erty until her aunt took her in at about 14, she said. At 13, she was living with her pregnant sister who was 14, and the sister's boy- friend who was 15 in the river bottoms. Today, she is a school counselor at the Enterprise Elementary School District in Redding. Johnson spoke of three basic things that were con- sistent in her experience, starting with the idea of trauma and how it affects children. In her case, her brother was killed by a DUI driver at the age of 18 months and while she was not there at the time it happened, she lived with the effects of it, which in- cluded living in foster care, watching her mother be abused by various boy- friends, watching her dad taken away by law enforce- ment and hiding from po- lice to keep from getting put into the system. "On-going trauma im- pacts a child's ability to be successful," Johnson said. Addiction was the sec- ond item on her list and it is something that has a powerful affect on fami- lies and the decisions they make. "It was the driving force behind my mother's deci- sion not to pay rent that lead to us being home- less, living in our car or with friends and search- ing through restaurant and grocery store dump- sters because of her trad- ing food stamps for drugs," Johnson said. "The addic- tion mom had owned her." Ignorance was the final item, which was evident to Johnson when she saw how things were different in the lives of her grand- parents when she stayed with them. "Poverty exists with all these hidden rules," John- son said. "It's impossible to overcome poverty until you understand what the rules are. It's a culture and you don't know the entire world has different rules. Unless you know that, it's limited on how to get out of poverty." Superior Court Judge Matt McGlynn and fos- ter parent Judy Mandolfo talked about foster care and the need for people to step up and be foster par- ents in Tehama County, where 25 percent of foster children are placed outside the county due to a lack of homes. Tehama County has a 60 percent success rate of safely re-uniting children with their parents, while the national average is 50 percent, McGlynn said. Having good foster par- ents is important because it improves the number who come through the ju- venile delinquency system. Mandolfo spoke to her experience, which started with fostering two rel- atives at the age of 19 as a single woman. She said she hoped her story would inspire everyone in the room to consider getting involved. Summit FROM PAGE 1 PHOTOSBYJULIEZEEB—DAILYNEWS Tehama County Superior Court Judge Matt McGlynn talks about the need for foster parents in Tehama County as one of several topics discussed Thursday at the Expect More Tehama Educational Summit held at the Rolling Hills Casino. Nicki Johnson, a 2001Corning High School graduate who now works as a school counselor for the Enterprise Elementary School District in Redding, speaks about her experience growing up in poverty. Kathy Garcia, a member of the Expect More leadership team pictured here, and fellow leadership team member Kate Grissom, not pictured, talk about the summit and what topics will be discussed. on a federal facility, said Andrea Capps, a US For- est Service Public Affairs Officer. "There's added empha- sis this year on flood con- trol because of El Nino on what to do when there's more water than normal, especially in a short time," Capps said. Corps members de- voted 500,000 hours over the summer working to provide assistance during emergencies to fire crews, Saito said. The expectation is that there will be prob- lems with flooding some- time this winter and it is better to do the training now rather than wait un- til they're in the trenches. "Every year we prepare for the flood, but with El Nino looming, it's all the more important to be ready when the call comes," Saito said. "It's all about learning the safety and getting the education so we are ready." The training is done at the local level throughout the state with about 1,600 members in the Corps. An- other training that is more intense will be done later with about 150 people. In addition to the train- ing, there are two conser- vation crews with 36 mem- bers who will be based out of Red Bluff from Nov. 1 to May 1, said District Direc- tor Scott Wolsey, who is based out of the Redding center. The group will be cre- ating fuel reductions throughout a 75 square mile area from Paradise up to Redding. Funding comes through emergency drought relief the Corps received in 2014 in the amount of $13 million to do projects through June 2016. State Senator Jim Nielsen attended the train- ing and thanked members for the work they do. There is a need for more people to help deal with di- sasters and to find more money in the budget for the California Conserva- tion Corps, Nielsen said. The Corps is a state agency for men and women between the ages of 18 and 25 who spend a year in- volved in natural resource work and emergency re- sponse. For more information on the local organization call the Redding office at 241- 3030. Training FROM PAGE 1 PHOTOS BY JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS California Sen. Jim Nielsen thanks members of the California Conservation Corps for their work during a yearly training Thursday near the Red Bluff Recreation Area. Members of the California Conservation Corps practice posing for a picture with California Senator Jim Nielsen. up with a plan to have an- other inmate commit two murders. One of victims of the planned crime was a fam- ily member who was go- ing to testify against Kil- burger in court on his pre- vious charges, according to a press released issued in July 2014. The defense attorney brought Kilburger's dis- order up to the judge and suggested Kilburger receive probation as his disorder played a role in the crimes committed. It is only appropriate to refer back to probation so the department can explore the issue and determine whether or not it fit the de- scription of the crime, McE- hamy said. The prosecutor in the case said, by his notes, Kil- burger was diagnosed with post traumatic stress disor- der after his time serving in the Navy, stemming from a death in his family. The defense attorney re- minded the prosecutor and the judge that Kilburger is considered a 100 percent disabled veteran. The date change is so the probation office can obtain military records to make a determination of Kilburg- er's mental health condi- tions. Murders FROM PAGE 1 Vendors who partici- pated had a $40,000 in- creased revenue from ven- dor sales over last year. The total vendor income for 2015 was $185,312 compared to last year's $144,736. The percentage for the fair from vendor sales was a total of $52,598, an increase of more than $10,000. This year the entry counts were down in some areas from last year's num- bers but total entries have still grown. The open horse show had 100 entries, 52 fewer than in 2014. The junior horse show had fewer entries this year at 40 compared to the 286 from last year. With the high entries of the still exhibits this year, at 2,473, the total number of entries were up by 77. Livestock came in at 1,099 entries this year. The total fair expenses have not been calculated yet but will be available in the coming months, said Pete Dagorret, fair board member. Fair FROM PAGE 1 The Associated Press PALO ALTO Henry S. Rowen, an American pol- icymaker and Stanford University economist who was president of the RAND Corp. when it helped pro- duce the Pentagon Papers, has died, university offi- cials announced Thursday. Tom Gilligan, the direc- tor of the Hoover Institu- tion, confirmed his death. Rowen, 90, collapsed at the university on his way to an event on Nov. 12. A cause of death has not been re- leased. A leading scholar on eco- nomic growth in the U.S. and Asia and a national security expert, Rowen started his career as an economist at the RAND think tank and later be- came a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. Rowen took the helm at RAND Corp. in 1967. That sameyear,U.S.DefenseSec- retary Robert McNamara launched a top-secret study of U.S. policies in Vietnam that became known as the Pentagon Papers. It involved Defense De- partment and private ana- lysts,includingfromRAND. "I'm not sure I'm the only one, but I'm one of the people who said we should really get a record of this thing which has turned out so badly," Rowen said in 2005. "Some of this might be fleeting material, and we ought to collect it. I don't know whether this prompted McNamara to do it or not, but in due course a team was assembled." Among the RAND ana- lysts was Daniel Ellsberg, who secretly photocopied the project's documents and released them to The New York Times, which published the first in its series of stories about the findings on June 13, 1971. When Ellsberg was ar- rested on charges of con- spiracy, espionage and theft of government prop- erty, Rowen knew that RAND's reputation was in jeopardy, and he resigned. He said in a statement at that time: "Maintaining vi- tality in institutions and in people is brought about by change — RAND and I are no exception." To this day, Ellsberg says he regrets how his actions affected Rowen. "He was the closest friend I ever had," Ellsberg said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times this week. "I loved him like a brother." Rowen wrote on a wide range of policy questions, including nuclear strategy, international security, eco- nomic development, arms control, defense spending, the global economy and the critical role of energy. Later, he focused on China and the rise of Asia in high technologies. OBITUARY Head of think tank that helped produce Pentagon Papers dies FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015 REDBLUFFDAILYNEWS.COM | NEWS | 9 A