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BUSINESS U DowJonesIndustrial 17,813.39(+1.20) D Standard & Poor's 2088.87 (-0.27) U Nasdaq 5116.14 (+13.33) Thanks for subscribing, Elaine Raffety GOOD MORNING! Check out what's going on in your neighborhood and the community. PAGE A2 CALENDAR Staff Reports @redbluffnewsonTwitter RED BLUFF Anactofkindnessto two transients led to a theft from a Main Street store and the loss of a vehicle for an elderly man. Red Bluff Police were sent just be- fore 5 p.m. Tuesday to the Dollar Tree in the Riverside Plaza shopping center regarding a shoplifting report. While responding, the department also received a re- port that a vehi- cle had been sto- len from the park- ing lot. Upon arrival, officers contacted 62-year-old Har- old Graves and learned he had given a ride to three people from CRIME Transients attempt the of food, vehicle By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF While many local restaurants will be closing for Thanksgiving, there are those few that stay open for those wanting to avoid preparing a big meal and those looking for a fun night out. Denny's, at 48 Antelope Blvd., will be open all day Thanksgiving day, as it is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Shari's Cafe and Pies Restau- rant, at 128 Belle Mill Road, is also hope 24/7 and will be open all day on Thanksgiving. The Cozy Diner, at 259 S. Main St., will be open from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Other restaurants, including Applebee's, China Doll, New Asian Restaurant, Thai House, The Pal- omino Room, Luigi's Pizza and the Green Barn Steakhouse will be closed for the day on Thanks- giving. HOLIDAY Local restaurant hours for Thursday By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter CORNING The downtown So- lano Street streetscape project was presented at Tuesday's City Council meeting and awarded to Trent Construction. Trent's bid for the project was the lowest at $1,295,208.57. The next bid was more than $10,000 higher. City Engineer Ed Anderson has projected the start date to be April 18, 2016, pending the coop- eration of the weather. The work consists of the re- moval and replacement of exist- ing concrete sidewalks, drive- ways, curbs, gutters, curb returns and trees, said Public Works Di- rector Dawn Grine. This project will include street grinding, street overlay and striping. Improvements will include dec- orated stamped concrete within the Solano Street intersection crosswalks from Third Street through West Street and within the sidewalks along both sides of Solano Street of the project's pe- rimeter, Grine said. Solano Street will get new street grates, an irrigation system and electrical outlets that provide convenient amenities to the new street trees. Included in the proposal were eight additive bids, the demoli- tion and reconstruction of Sixth Street, the installation of street lights, electrical receptacles, wa- ter and electrical service installa- tion at Martini Plaza and colored stamped concrete crosswalks at the intersections with Third and Sixth streets. The company also has worked on Corning parks in recent years. Two alternate bids propose the colored stamped concrete op- tion in lieu of pavers in the side- walk areas of both Third through Sixth streets and Sixth through West streets, according to the re- port. Anderson said the installa- tion of the pavers would be much more time-consuming than the stamped concrete. Construction will be time critical throughout the downtown project. The reason the project presen- tation was pushed back to Tues- day's council meeting was be- cause budgets were changing, Mayor Gary Strack said. The city will not be getting as much money for the project as previ- ously though, but will get enough to cover the project completely. Funding for the project will be supported by the State Trans- CORNING SpringstartforSolanoStreetproject By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF Life-long Tehama County resident Sara Beck has a lot to be thankful for on Thanksgiving, from being able to find a career through which she can help others to the Te- hama County Drug Court that gave her that chance. "I'd like to give thanks for the drug court program because I was addicted to drugs and al- cohol for a period of 30 years," Beck said. "I owe everything to the Judge Todd Bottke, the Te- hama County Drug Court staff and Corning Police Depart- ment." On Tuesday, Nov. 24, Beck celebrated her two-year anni- versary of getting clean and so- ber, a path she started in about 1993 or 1994 with a DUI con- vistion that landed her a three- year prison sentence, eventually working in the fire camps before getting into drug court. "I lost my father to a DUI wreck in 2001 in Corning where a Jeep rolled over," Beck said. "The guy was sentenced, but af- ter the wreck I went into a whirl- wind of drugs and alcohol. From 2001 to 2013, my life was cha- otic." In October 2012, Beck was liv- ing in a house on Colusa Street in Corning that she didn't own and went before the City Coun- cil to ask for water service, but was denied. Atthetime,duetoahighnum- ber of foreclosures, the city re- quired owner permission. Beck tried to claim ownership using AB 1684, a bill known as adverse possession and in the letter to the city that came before coun- cil admitted she had been living there for four months. In the case of adverse posses- sion, a person must have lived in a place for five years and be paid up on all taxes owed. Beck had only been there four months and only $100 of the taxes owed had been paid. Beck had been homeless in the Redding area and visited the Redding Library, where she came across the rule of adverse possession after searching on- line for what happens to aban- doned homes. Part of the moti- vation was her three children, two daughters ages 15 and 17 and a son who is 28, she said. "I was desperate and wanted to provide a home for my chil- dren," Beck said. On Jan. 31, 2013, Beck's life changed and she remembers it clearly because that is her daughter's birthday. Beck was singing happy birthday to her daughter on the telephone when Tehama Interagency Drug En- forcement Task Force Agents raided her home. "I became homeless for a year while the charges were pending from that arrest," Beck said. "I lived under the bridge here in Red Bluff until the police de- partment took me in on a war- rant from the pending charges. I THANKFUL FROM DRUG COURT TO COUNSELOR JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Sara Beck is pictured here with her Tehama County booking photo. Community.....A4 Lifestyles........A5 A-E...................A6 Opinion............A8 Sports.............. B1 Weather ........B10 INDEX A US commander says some in military have been suspended for their roles in a deadly Af- ghan hospital attack. PAGE B3 MILITARY PERSONNEL Somesuspendedin Afghan hospital attack Vladimir Putin responds to Turkey's downing of a Russian jet by sending air-defense missiles to Syria. PAGE A3 RUSSIAN JET SHOT DOWN Putin sends missiles to Syria to deter Turkey PROJECT PAGE 9 TehamaCountywomanhasalottobethankfulforonThanksgiving "I lost my father to a DUI wreck in 2001 in Corning where a Jeep rolled over. The guy was sentenced, but after the wreck I went into a whirlwind of drugs and alcohol. 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