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FRIDAY MAY 11, 2012 www.redbluffdailynews.com See Page 3A Breaking news at: Celebrating 6 Years at the Top St. Elizabeth RED BLUFF Down & Dirty Education 8A Weather forecast 10B Sunny 89/56 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 Web chat with supervisor candidate Steve Chamblin script from a live web chat with District 1 supervisor candidate Steve Chamblin held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Red Bluff Daily News: Thanks to everyone for joining us tonight. And thank you Mr. Chamblin - do you have any open- The following is an edited tran- Spartans slam ing words? Steve Chamblin: Good evening, I'm Steve Chamblin, a native of Tehama County, I graduated from Red Bluff High School in 1970 and after graduating from college returned to Tehama County to raise my family. My wife, Lynn, and I have been married 39 years. We have raised our two sons here. Our fam- ily is very involved in the commu- nity and we enjoy living in Tehama County. Red Bluff Daily News: Are you currently employed? Steve Chamblin: By RICH GREENE DN Sports Editor With the assistance of a Slova- kian ace, the Red Bluff Spartans are the kings of the section. The Spartans tennis team cap- tured the Northern Section champi- onship Thursday, behind the play of exchange student Igor Minarik and his five new American friends with a 5-4 win over Pleasant Valley. Minarik, who is highly ranked in his home country of Slovakia, has breezed through this season unde- feated in singles competition. But to say he alone catapulted what was already a strong Spartans team into a championship side would be underestimating the rest of the team and Minarik himself. Outside of high school, tennis is an individual sport, but at the prep level there's something larger to play for — school pride, teammates and friends. It takes more than one great player to win a title. Prep tennis matches consist of six separate sin- gles matches and three doubles matches. Whichever school wins the most wins the team match. As great as Minarik is, he can only play in two matches a day. That's left plenty of opportunities for the rest of the Spartans to shine —and this season they did every time. Twitchell's favorite aspects of coaching this team — that a differ- ent kid has had to step up and have the big win from match to match. Whether it be his son, Curtis, or Eddie Samay at the bottom of the ladder, the competitive C.J. Varner or senior captain Paul Hendricks or even last year's ace Thunder Shaf- fer — someone stepped up. Lately everyone's been doing his That's been one of coach Stan Daily News photo by Rich Greene Igor Minarik delivers a serve during Thursday's section championship against Shasta. sealed Red Bluff's championship season. part. Shaffer. With the team match tied 4-4, On Thursday it was Varner and Varner and Shaffer dug out from a one set deficit to comeback and get the fifth and decisive victory. It concluded a stretch of three playoff matches in three days and "This whole day my legs have been shaking non-stop," Hendricks said in between his singles and dou- bles match. Shaffer became Red Bluff's top player last year, but this year the ace in his own right has had to step back and share the spotlight. "It has its pros and cons, but it's It seems Minarik gave the Spar- tans something they didn't think would be possible before he showed up on campus. "At the end of last year, I wasn't expecting this," Shaffer said. Well-traveled Ore. wolf photographed GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — A young male wolf from Oregon that has won worldwide fame while trekking across mountains, deserts and highways looking for a mate has had what appears to be his first close encounter with peo- ple, and got his picture taken, to boot. A federal trapper, a state game warden and a state wildlife biologist were visiting ranchers in Northern California on Tuesday to notify them that GPS signals showed the gray wolf was in the area, when they stopped to look over a sagebrush hillside with binoculars, said Karen Kovacs, wildlife program manager for the California Depart- ment of Fish and Game in Redding, Calif. ''There, all of a sud- den, out pops a head, and there he is,'' she said. ''He appeared very healthy.'' The wolf was hanging out with three coyotes, and appeared curious about the people watching him. But he kept his dis- tance, about 100 yards, Kovacs said. ''He has managed to stay off the radar as far as people getting visuals of this critter,'' she said. ''His healthy distance has probably served him well up to this point.'' definitely going to make me a better player. I'm just not playing No. 1 this year," he said. Shaffer said Minarik has made every Spartan a better player. See SLAM, page 9A I'm retired from local gov- ernment service and cur- rently have a part time small business. Red Bluff Daily News: What made you decide to run for supervisor? Steve Chamblin: supervisor, as it has been an interest of mine for several years. After retiring last year I realized I had the time to devote to a cam- paign and, if elected, serve as a full time supervisor. I decided to run for county See CHAT, page 9A Woman cited in battery later jailed A Red Bluff woman had two run-ins with the law within 12 hours Wednesday and found herself behind bars after the second incident. Officers responded to the area of Aloha Street and Deborah Drive at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday for a report of a battery to a cab driver. The owner of Sunset Cab, Eddie Marshall, was tak- ing a woman, identified as Penny Reddy, to an address on Carmel Way, when, near the intersection of Deborah Drive and Aloha Street, Reddy began grabbing at Mar- shall's hair and head. Marshall stopped the cab and Reddy fled the area after also damaging his hands-free cell phone head set. Marshall had minor injuries from the attack. See WOMAN, page 9A Teen stages show to help fairgrounds By JULIE ZEEB DN Staff Writer St. Louis is coming to Red Bluff with the Tehama District Fair benefit performance of Meet Me In St. Louis, starring members of Tehama County Youth Focus, their families and friends at 6 p.m. Satur- day. Fairground, which hosts about 160 events a year, lost 25 percent of its budget, equivalent to about $200,000, with Gov. Jerry Brown's elim- ination of state funding for fairs. Megan Mandolfo of Red Bluff was just 16 when crowned Miss Tehama County at the 2011 Tehama District Fair, but wants to help wherever she can, she said. The Tehama District "I heard about the fair losing money when I was running for Miss Tehama County and decided to do a fundrais- er," Mandolfo said. "My family does catering so it was easy to turn to din- ner theater." events, the fairground is used for fundraisers such as the Sacred Heart Cali- co Faire, she said. In addition to big "Our whole commu- nity is based around fair so without that, our county would lose," Mandolfo said. "If we lose the fair, we'll lose some of the agriculture and tourism in our com- munity. Most people think of the fair as a four-day carnival, but the fair is so much more than that." Fair CEO Mark Eid- man said Mandolfo's actions impressed him. "Within 30 days of being crowned Miss Tehama County Megan was in my office and told me she was going to make a difference not just talk about it," Eid- man said. "This event See SHOW, page 9A Gerber tries levee fix to avoid flood insurance California wildlife biologist Richard Shinn snapped a photo, the first shot of the animal in color, and the department posted it on its website. The sighting happened on private land in Modoc County, the sparsely set- tled northeastern corner of California. The wolf, known as 7 5 8 5 5 1 6 9 0 0 1 9 See WOLF, page 9A Courtesy photo Gerber Community Service District Maintenance Supervisor Shane Emde, left, and Tehama County Public Works employee Matthew Rodriguez, right, work on filling rodent holes with grout to discour- age ground squirrels per the Army Corps of Engineers requirements.The district is hopeful filling the holes will allow it to remain in the PL 84-99 program, a federal assistance program in case of a levee break and flood, and eliminate the need for homeowners to carry flood insurance.The 1.6-mile levee was redlined as unacceptable due to the ground squirrels by the Army Corps of Engineers in an inspection report received by the district on Jan. 13.