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ByHeatherHoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF The City Council Tuesday approved a revised ordi- nance and updated city code to al- low the use of outdoor fireplaces, effective 30 days after adoption. Red Bluff Fire Department Divi- sion Chief Matt Shobash brought the issue to the council at the Dec. 1 meeting to make a few changes toordinance1024thathadbanned any outdoor fireplaces from being used in city limits. The new or- dinance, no. 1039, will allow for these to be used with some re- quirements and restrictions. Portable manufactured out- door fireplaces have been sold lo- cally for the use in backyards at private residences for a number of years, Shobash said. These porta- ble fireplaces are widely used by the public and, when used cor- rectly, per the manufacturer's recommendations, have shown to not create an increased risk of personal or property damage. ORDINANCE Ci ty a ll ow s outdoor fir ep la ce s By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF Suspects in an al- leged marijuana deal gone bad plead not guilty Monday at the Tehama County Superior Court- house stemming from an inci- dent that took place July 24 on Luce Griswold road in Cotton- wood and resulting in a man with a gun shot wound and another kidnapped. Judge Todd Bottke has set a pretrial conference for Feb. 22, 2016 at 1:15 p.m. in department 3 of the courthouse. Zachary Thornton, 19, Derek Hale, 20, Robert Beaugrand, 26, Garrett Lenardo, 33, and William Fosters, 45, were all arrested on felony charges of conspiracy to commit a crime, kidnapping, as- saulting a person with a deadly weapon and robbery. The shooting was first reported whenTylerSmith,19,ofHappyVal- ley, drove himself to the Bowman COURT Suspects in pot deal plead not guilty Staff report @redbluffnews on Twitter CORNING The Corning Police De- partment is seeking information on suspects in an assault that took place Tuesday evening in the 1200 block of Pear Street. Officers responded to the area at 6:32 p.m. Tuesday after receiv- ing a report of a woman who had been attacked in an alleyway. Two suspects reportedly grabbed the womanfrombehindwhileshewas retrieving groceries from her vehi- cle, according to a Corning Police Department press release. Policelogsshowareportofthree men, dressed in black, who bat- tered and cut the woman. The press release said there were two suspects who threw the womanonthegroundandheldher down. The men allegedly hit the womanrepeatedlyandheldaknife to her throat. The woman, who re- ceived lacerations to her chest and neckandfacialbruising,wastrans- ported to Enloe Medical Center in Chico by a family member, Chief Jeremiah Fears said. Theinvestigationisongoingand anyonewithinformationonthein- cident is asked to call the Corning Police Department at 824-7000. CORNING Policeseeksuspectsinassault By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF Students in Lukas Kennedy's AP Physics class at Red Bluff Union High School had the chance to test their skills at building and then launching objects with cata- pults Dec. 11 as part of an end of the semester project. There were 42 students mak- ing up 15 different groups who got to decide if they wanted to do a Trebouchet, which is a gravitational-style, or Ballista, which is a mechanical or elas- tic style, catapult. "This is the third year we've done this for AP Physics," Ken- nedy said. "The idea of the project is two-fold. It's a cap- stone of all the things they've learned over the semester as well as an engineering compo- nent by them being the ones to build and design the appara- tus. They don't just discuss it. I'm thankful the pendulum of school has swung back towards the hands-on projects where they can build it and work on it to change the catapult so it works better." Rather than try to launch something as far as they can, students in the class were re- quired to aim for a specific tar- get of 75 feet with as little de- viation as possible, which re- quires a bit more finesse and fine-tuning, Kennedy said. The project challenges the students and often times those who may not have the best grades come in with the most stellar de- signs. One example of excellent work was the Ballista style catapult put together by Tan- ner Durfee, Bryce Sinclair and Jake Thorton, who had by far the best engineering of the en- tire group and possibly the best Kennedy had ever seen, he said. He was also impressed by an- other project that basically looked like an oversized bow and arrow. "It's all a fine art of tinker- ing and engineering and then they have to write a report about why police don't use it anymore and have instead re- placed it with a weapon that uses chemical energy in the form of gunpowder," Kennedy said. After two classes of students, one in the morning and one in early afternoon, the Trebuchet style catapult made by Mitchell Sauve, Jennifer Silva and Ken- nedy Somavia was named as the best overall, hitting the 75- foot mark, causing chalk to fly up upon impact, Kennedy said. The best from the second group went to Katie Gallagher, Judy Killam and Caity Igarta. "It took us a couple of months to build," Sauve said. "Then we brought it to school and it rained, which messed up the wood. When we went to test it, one of the bungees snapped." The catapult broke and, with help from Kennedy in getting supplies to re-build, Sauve and his group did an overhaul and re-calibrated their machine the day of the launch, Sauve said. "It went under at 74 feet on the first launch, then over at 76 feet and then it hit the line at 75 feet," Sauve said. "We were so excited when it hit the line. We were the last group out here." The group of catapults drew plenty of on-lookers to check out the launch while passing through. The hope is that not only will it be a hands-on and fun, but draws interest and gets stu- dents who may not have other- wise thought about taking the class to sign up for AP Physics, Kennedy said. RED BLUFF HIGH STUDENTS LAUNCH CATAPULTS FOR END OF SEMESTER PROJECT PHOTOSBYJULIEZEEB—DAILYNEWS Tanner Durfee, center, launches a ballista style catapult he and Bryce Sinclair and Jake Thorton built on Friday at Red Bluff High School as part of an end of the semester AP Physics project. 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