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THURSDAY MAY 10, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 4B Breaking news at: RED BLUFF Reader Photos Baseball Brackets SPORTS 1B Sunny 88/56 Weather forecast 8B 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 Live web chat with supervisor candidate Roger Cox The following is an edited tran- script of a live web chat held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday with District 1 Supervisor candidate Roger Cox. Jump onto redbluffdai- lynews.com at 6:30 tonight to join a live chat with candidate Steve Chamblin, who is also running to represent District 1. Red Bluff Daily News: Thanks for joining us today. Roger Cox: Shed head my privilege to running for Super- visor District 1. I have lived in Red Bluff about one year and I find this to be a beautiful community, the people have been very friendly My name is Roger Cox and it is and in many ways this town reminds me of where I grew up, in eastern Washington on a small apple farm. Red Bluff Daily News: Where do you work? Roger Cox: clinic. I lived in the Middle East for nine years and I attend- ed medical school in Haifa Israel. At the moment I work at the Greenville Rancheria medical Red Bluff Daily News: What made you decide to run for supervisor? Roger Cox: for political office in my life and since this is our privilege here in this country, I just thought for the first time I would run for something. And I'm honored to be offered the opportunity to run. I'm 62 years old, I've never run See CHAT, page 7A Fish and Game joins dog fight By ANDREA WAGNER DN Staff Writer The Tehama County Fish and Game Commission Tues- day joined in the fight against a state senate bill that would ban using dogs to tree bears and bobcats. Members voted to pass a recommendation to the county Board of Supervisors to oppose the bill, SB1221. "It is a consensus of the TCF&GC that SB1221 may be the first step to ban all hunting dogs, including dogs used to retrieve water fowl and other game birds," reads a letter signed by Commission Secretary Les Wolfe. The supervisors already discussed opposition to the bill during a May 1 public comment portion of the board meet- ing. Local hunters Irv Corbin and Leah Hambright stood then to ask the board to join them in protest against the proposed legislation. Citing possible results, such as lost revenue for the coun- ty and reductions in hunting, Corbin explained why banning hunting with dogs would be detrimental. The hunters don't kill everything they see, but the politi- cians behind the bill don't know that, he said. "Hound hunting is the truest form of catch and release," he said. The dogs love it too, he said. They are bred for it. See FIGHT, page 7A Band concert tonight Courtesy photo South Fork of Cottonwood Creek. District receives grant for watershed Special to the DN The Tehama County Resource Conservation District (TCRCD) has been awarded a grant through the Department of Conservation to fund a watershed coordinator position for the Cottonwood Creek Watershed. The watershed lies within Shasta and Tehama counties on the northwest side of the Sacramento Valley, and covers an area of 938 square miles. It is the third largest watershed trib- utary west of the Sacramento River, and the largest undammed watershed on the west side of the Sacramento Valley. The coordinator will work with landowners and partner- ing agencies to expand public awareness of and participation Shasta County improperly withheld court records REDDING (AP) — Shasta County officials have released court docu- ments in thousands of criminal cases dating back to the mid-1980s that were improperly sealed, after a local newspaper argued they were public records. The documents in some 2,400 cases were released last week, the Record Searchlight of Redding reported (http://bit.ly/JtxteW) on Tuesday. obtained by prosecutors. Fowler-Bradley said the goal of keeping such cases confidential was to avoid tipping suspects off about the charges they faced. in environmental improvement and conservation projects related to watershed and riparian habitat health, ecosystem health, and water quantity and quality within the Cotton- wood Creek Watershed. vegetation/riparian habitat management and monitoring, and education and outreach on a range of topics of interest to landowners and the public within the watershed. The district is seeking public input regarding issues with- in the Cottonwood Creek Watershed. Interested individuals should call Rose Calzontzi at (530) 527-3013 ext.115 or send an email to rose@tehamacountyrcd.org. The TCRCD is a non-profit special district created to assist people to manage, conserve, and improve the natural resources of Tehama County. It is involved with many dif- ferent projects and educational endeavors ranging from free irrigation system testing and water quality sampling, to exot- ic plant removal and hosting hands-on workshops. For more information on the district, visit www.tehamacountyrcd.org. Planned projects include fuels reduction, Daily News photo by Julie Zeeb Red Bluff Union High School band students practice for a performance tonight at 7 in the Performing Arts Center. Cost is $3 and tickets are available at the door. Corning Jr. Rodeo queen contestants State laws supported that practice in felony cases until 1986. Shasta County never changed its policy when the laws were updated, Fowler- Bradley said. said they were wrong to deny public access to the documents. ''The authority I thought we had — that I would have bet money we had — when I looked into it, it clearly wasn't there,'' said Melissa Fowler- Bradley, the county court's executive officer. The cases in question Court officials have all involved pending arrest warrants that were Jim Ewert, general counsel for the California Newspaper Publishers Association, said all crim- inal complaints are pre- sumed public information unless a judge orders oth- erwise. The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld such requirements, he said. The cases in Shasta County came to light after reporters tried to get copies in March of the criminal complaint against a Shasta Lake councilwoman, according to the Record Searchlight. News tip? Call 527-2151 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 Amelia Massie By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer CORNING — The Corning Jr. Rodeo kicks off at 6 tonight at Estil C. Clark Park on Fig Lane with the Queen Contest and the hos- pitality mixer. The mixer, sponsored by PremierWest Bank and Corning Olive Oil Co., will begin with the Little Miss contest, followed by the stick horse races around 6:30 p.m. Danielle Hedglin Kaylee Loewen Kelsey Kruse Kendall Rose has seven contestants, and crowning of the queen by 2011 queen Marlee Ann Meadows of Red Bluff, will take place immediately after. The 2012 contest, which Contestants include Danielle Hedglin of Chico, Kelsey Kruse of Red Bluff, Kaylee Loewen of Corning, Amelia Massie of Hamilton City, Taylor Munk of Stony- ford, Kendall Rose of Michell Woolbert Danielle, the daughter of Glen and Eileen Hedglin, is a senior at Pleasant Valley High School and rides a paint horse named Rocket. Stonyford and Michell Woolbert of Gerber. Taylor Munk lege Connections, which allows her to be enrolled in high school and college at the same time. Danielle par- She is involved in Col- See QUEEN, page 7A