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» redbluffdailynews.com Saturday, January 23, 2016 $1.00 ANEDITIONOFTHECHICOENTERPRISE-RECORD Jean Barton Jim Owens Memorial Ranch Rodeo today Farm A5 High school Mercy's 2016 Homecoming Court announced Community A3 FollowtheDailyNews on Twitter to keep pace with breaking news and events @REDBLUFFNEWS FOLLOWUS ONTWITTER By Scott Smith TheAssociatedPress FRESNO The recent onslaught of El Niño storms only slightly increased the levels of California reservoirs that stand at half of historic depths for this time of year, federal officials said Friday while releasing an initial water outlook for 2016. Heavy rainfall has soaked into a landscape that has been parched by four years of drought, and the snowpack in the Sierra Nevada has grown but hasn't started to melt off and replenish the critically low reservoirs, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation spokes- man Shane Hunt said. "It's been raining and snow- ing," he said. "It's going to take a lot more." The bureau's outlook comes as federal water managers prepare DROUGHT California reservoirs half full despite El Niño storms By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF A Tehama County Board of Supervisors' public hearing regarding whether or not to change Local Responsi- bility Area guidelines to be the same as those for the State Re- sponsibility Area originally scheduled for Tuesday has been moved to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 9. The local guidelines for the fire safe regulations that de- termine items such as when a driveway needs to have a turn- out, what kind of clearance there must be or whether a sur- face can bear the weight of an engine responding in an emer- gency were previously changed to mirror the state guidelines. This made adhering to regula- tions easier since Cal Fire and Tehama County Fire respond to the same incidents. Since there were not two sets of standards the same rules everywhere the agencies responded within the county. TEHAMA COUNTY Public hearing on fire safety regulations moved Have a great day, Virginia Mohler. GOOD MORNING ShowerS High: Low: 58 40 PAGEB10 By Heather Hoelscher hhoelscher@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Heather on Twitter RED BLUFF Tehama County's unemployment rate rose by .5 percent from 7 percent to 7.5 per- cent in December 2015, accord- ing to numbers released Friday by the Employment Development Department. In the county there are 25,340 people in the labor work force, down 310 people in a month. Of those, 23,430 were employed and 1,910 unemployed. Unemployed persons were up 110 from No- vember. The size of the labor force went down 1.2 percent since No- vember and is the same percent- ages in December 2014. Tehama County's unemploy- ment rate remained 34th out of the 58 counties in the state. All industries decreased in the number of jobs from November, down 2.2 percent or down 400 jobs from 18,360 to 17,960 over- all. In December of 2014 the total industries were up 2.5 percent. Financial activities and pro- fessional and business services were up 10 jobs in a month. All other industries either stayed the same or decreased. Total farms and state government show the largest decrease in jobs at nega- tive 11.3 percent and 10.8 percent respectively. Employers with the most job ads for the month of December included Walmart, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, Tehama County Health Services Agency, Travel Centers of America and Tehama County Department of Education. Occupations with the most job ads included heavy and tractor- trailer truck drivers, physical therapists, registered nurses, speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists. The unemployment rates for nearby counties are Glenn at 8.9 percent, Shasta at 7.5 per- cent and Butte County at 7 per- cent. All have increased unem- ployment rates since November. San Mateo County remained the county with the lowest un- employment rate at 3.1 percent. UNEMPLOYMENT JoblessrateincreaseshalfpercentinDecember In the county there are 25,340 people in the labor work force, down 310 people in a month. Of those, 23,430 were employed and 1,910 unemployed. Unemployed persons were up 110 from November. JOBS PAGE 9 SAFETY PAGE 9 STORM PAGE 9 By Julie Zeeb jzeeb@redbluffdailynews.com @DN_Zeeb on Twitter RED BLUFF The State Theatre was filled to capacity Friday with folding chairs brought in for nearly 700 fifth grade stu- dentsselectedtoattendthe first Marvin Locke Memorial Con- cert featuring the North State Symphony directed by Dwayne Corbin. The event, which was ini- tially expecting between 500 and 600 students, was put on by the Tehama Concert Series incooperationwiththeTehama County Department of Educa- tion and Dignity Health, who sponsored the concert. Tehama ConcertSeriesisanon-profitor- ganization dedicated to bring- ing quality live entertainment to Tehama County. "This is our first year and we aretryingtotargetthekidswho don't have a special event such as the Career Day, Farm Day and Education Day already," board member Clint Stetson said. Eventually, the group hopes that all the students in Tehama County will have an experience that exposes them to music and one way to do that is to target a specific age group, Stetson said. The hope is to reach them young because studies show that by the time children reach junior high and especially by high school those not exposed to a variety of music and live performances are less likely to get involved in a high school band or other musical areas at MEMORIAL FIRST MARVIN LOCKE MEMORIAL CONCERT PHOTOS BY JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Fi h grade students take in a performance by the North State Symphony Friday at the State Theatre. Fi h grade students from West Street School and Metteer School head into the State Theatre for a performance by the North State Symphony Friday. TehamaCountyfi h graders attend concert CONCERT PAGE 9 U Dow Jones Industrial 16,093.51 (+210.83) U Standard & Poor's 1906.90 (+37.91) U Nasdaq 4591.18 (+119.12) BUSINESS Check out what's going on in your neighborhood and the community. PAGE A2 WHAT'S HAPPENING Eastern U.S. faces potentially historic blizzards, gale-force winds, flooding and whiteout conditions. PAGE B6 WEATHER Deadly snowstorms hit millions this weekend Obama administration pushes rules to clamp down on oil companies that burn off natu- ral gas on public lands. PAGE B6 EMISSIONS US seeks to limit gas 'flaring' at sites Web bonus More news and opinion. redbluffdailynews.com News................A2 Community.....A3 Opinion............A4 Lifestyles........A5 Education........A6 Weather ........ A10 INDEX Volume131,issue46 7 98304 20753 8