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DEATHNOTICES alert for a possible evacu- ation of the animals about 6:30 p.m. According to the CHP website, there was debris building up on the bridge at 6:25 p.m. and the bridge appeared to be about to be washed out by the wa- ter. The road and the bridge were closed at 6:45 p.m. Sat- urday with barricades put up along with flooded signs. Interstate 5 at Flores Avenue off-ramp was be- ing overtaken by Willow Creek with a note on the CHP website at 4:17 p.m. Saturday that the creek was overflowing and a few more inches would see the southbound lane lost in wa- ter as the water was up to the shoulder. The National Weather Service issued a flood watch about 1:30 p.m. Saturday for several Northern California counties including Tehama and its neighbors, Butte and Shasta, that remained in effect through Sunday. Ex- cessive periods of moder- ate to heavy rainfall were expected to saturate soils and lead to swollen small creeks and streams. Those in areas prone to flooding were cautioned to stay alert and monitor the situation in their area. Rainfall amounts in inches for a 24-hour period between 11 p.m. Friday and 11 p.m. Saturday were as follows: Cottonwood Patty Mocus 0.64, Davis Ranch 0.96, Saddle Camp 1.05, Red Bluff 0.76, Mineral 1.22, Las- sen Lodge 0.4, Corning 0.57, Eagle Peak 0.90, Thomes 0.74, Log Springs 1.03 and Black Butte 0.84. A wind advisory was is- sued for 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday with gusts ex- pected to hit between 13 and 35 mph, up to 50 mph in the evening and con- tinuing on a smaller scale into Monday. The advisory cautioned that a wind ad- visory was only issued when winds of 40 mph or higher were expected. Winds that strong could cause difficulty driving, especially for high profile vehicles and extra caution should be taken in those circumstances. Impacts could include damage to light weight structures, possible damage to trees and power outages. The Red Bluff area was al- ready experiencing dam- age Saturday with a large tree blocking both lanes of the road with its limbs that had come down about 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the area of Johnson Road and Reeds Creek Road. Roads FROM PAGE 1 "It was originally named after George Growney, but we asked the family if we could add Debbie's name to it and they said 'yes,'" Spencer said. "Almost all the kids who needed horses for the rodeo got one from Debbie. She was a big sup- porter of rodeo in general, but most especially the ju- nior rodeo." Moore also ran the schol- arship program, which is being taken over by Jr. Ro- deo Queen contest orga- nizer Patience Westphal. Scholarship winners in- clude Erin Clendenen of Cottonwood, Judith Killam of Red Bluff, Tucker Ham- mons of Corning and Mi- chell Woolbert of Vina. Clendenen, daughter of Woody and Kelly Clen- denen, attends West Val- ley High School. She hopes to attend Cal Poly San Luis Obispo to study agricul- tural communications with plans to become an agricul- tural lobbyist. Killam, daughter of Terri Hill and Douglas Killam, at- tends Red Bluff Union High School. She plans to attend Cal Poly to major in envi- ronmental sciences with a minor in biology to become a medical doctor. Hammons, daughter of TC and Stephanie Ham- mons, attends Core Butte Charter School. She hopes to attend Northeastern Community College with plans to transfer to a four- year university to study ag- ricultural communication and minor in agricultural business. She would like to promote the western life- style through rodeo. Woolbert, daughter of Hope and Bert Woolbert, attends Los Molinos High School. She plans to attend community college at either Quincy or Butte and wants to study agricultural busi- ness with plans to go into concrete industry manage- ment. Several items were raffled off in the live auc- tion, with Wyatt Spencer serving as master of cere- monies and auctioneer. Scholarship FROM PAGE 1 Peace Officers Association, were sold at the event. If all the tickets sold, the raf- fle would raise about $7,000 another $4,500 from the sale of about 300 meal tick- ets, Hoover said. "If that happened, I'd be jumping for joy," Hoover said. "We've been doing well (with K-9 costs) be- cause of the community, but we couldn't have done this fundraiser without Sgt. Colleen Lewis." Lewis, who works for the Tehama County Sher- iff's Department, was able to lend her expertise from fundraisers at her depart- ment, Hoover said. The cost to purchase a new dog is around $8,000 with another $4,500 for initial training, said Sgt. Michael Brown, Many's handler. It takes about 200 hours of training to get Peace Officer Standards and Training certified and the pair continues to train about 16 hours a month. "We train to keep up on his skills and to keep pro- gressing," Brown said. "We have to re-certify for POST once a year, testing things like building searches, the ability to command and then call off Many and drug detection." Many, who has been with the department for four years, has been trained to detect the main four odors of marijuana, metham- phetamine, cocaine and heroine. He occasionally trains to sniff out ecstasy. A German shepherd, like Many, averages five to six years working the streets while a Belgian Malinois averages eight or nine years, Brown said. The average cost for maintaining a K-9 part- ner is around $5,000 not including the $250 a month for food, which has been generously do- nated by Reynolds Ranch and Farm Supply. It also doesn't take into account medical emergencies such as when Many broke a tooth last year that had to be extracted. The pair can often be seen around the commu- nity and occasionally giv- ing demonstrations. Those who missed Satur- day's event can donate to the cause by calling 527- 3131 or visit the Friends of Red Bluff K-9 Department Facebook page. Fundraiser FROM PAGE 1 JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Jason Spencer, le , and Rick Sedita, right, show off a table being auctioned off by Wyatt Spencer Saturday at the Red Bluff Jr. Round-Up George Growney and Debbie Moore Scholarship Fundraising Dinner. PHOTOS BY JULIE ZEEB — DAILY NEWS Red Bluff Police Sgt. Michael Brown and K-9Officer Many visit with attendees on Saturday at the K-9Steering Committee Gourmet Hot Dog Fundraiser. Red Bluff Police Sgt. Michael Brown and K-9 Officer Many visit with attendees on Saturday at the K-9Steering Committee Gourmet Hot Dog Fundraiser. "We train to keep up on his skills and to keep progressing." — Red Bluff Police Sgt. Michael Brown By Janie Har The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO Four straight days of rain have replenished several key res- ervoirs in drought-stricken California, but the El Nino- related storms also led to the death of a highway pa- trol officer who was struck while directing traffic on a snowy Sierra Nevada free- way. The series of storms that started late last week was expected to taper off Mon- day, with warm tempera- tures and blue skies fore- cast throughout California this week. The latest storm weak- ened as it moved south, bringing drizzle and a high surf advisory to Los Ange- les County. In Northern California, authorities reported that lakes Shasta and Oroville haven't been this full since 2013, delighting a state in its fifth year of drought but falling short of ending con- cerns about the drought. Lake Shasta, the state's largest reservoir, was at 79 percent capacity on Mon- day and at 103 percent of its historical average for this time of year. The 21-mile long reser- voir north of Redding now holds 3.6 million acre-feet of water, enough to sup- ply 3 million to 6 million households for a year. The federal reservoir is crit- ical to farms and cities throughout the agricul- ture-rich Central Valley. "It's definitely welcome news, but it's kind of a mixed bag for us," said Shane Hunt, a spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Rec- lamation. "We still don't have water in all the right places to meet demand go- ing into peak season." For example, man-made Lake Melones in the Sierra Nevada foothills remains at just 22 percent of capac- ity and well below the his- torical average. The state's second larg- est reservoir, Lake Oro- ville, was at 70 percent of capacity and 97 percent of its historical average. Fol- som Lake, 25 miles north- east of Sacramento, was at 69 percent of capacity. Heavysnowfellthrough- out the weekend in the Si- erra Nevada, and up to 3 feet was expected in the higher elevations through Monday. That snowpack normally stores about 30 percent of California's wa- ter supply. California Highway Pa- trol officer Nathan Tay- lor died late Sunday after being struck Saturday by an out-of-control Nissan Pathfinder on Interstate 80 near Truckee, Califor- nia. The 35-year-old officer had been directing traffic around an accident when he was hit and knocked several feet into the air. The weather was so bad that the officer had to be taken to a Reno, Nevada, hospital by ambulance in- stead of helicopter. Taylor died after undergoing sur- gery. The CHP said Taylor was married and had three young sons. ""It is an incredibly sad day for Officer Taylor's family, the CHP, and the state of California," CHP Commissioner Joe Farrow said in a written state- ment. "The loss of an offi- cer protecting our commu- nity is truly devastating." Two people in Northern California died earlier this month in previous storms. One woman drowned after the car she was riding in drove into floodwaters in the Sacramento area. An- other person was killed in the San Francisco Bay Area when a car jumped a road- way and hit trees. Associated Press writer Paul Elias contributed to this report. CALIFORNIA Storms replenish key reservoirs The Associated Press SAN DIEGO A panel of law enforcement experts found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has made little movement on a call to sharply increase the number of agents as- signed to investigate inter- nal corruption, calling it a mistake that could lead to a major scandal if it isn't addressed more quickly. The panel, led by New York City Police Commis- sioner William Bratton and former U.S. Drug Enforce- ment Administration chief Karen Tandy, urged the na- tion's largest law enforce- ment agency in June 2015 to more than double the number of internal affairs criminal investigators to 550 from about 200. It said the agency's 2017 budget calls for an increase of only 30investigators,meaningit would take about a decade to fulfill the recommenda- tion at that pace. "This leaves CBP vulner- able to a corruption scan- dal that could potentially threaten the security of our nation," the panel wrote in its 58-page final report. The report notes other anti-corruption efforts — steps to temporarily transfer 57 internal affairs investigators from other agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and for the FBI to commit unspecified re- sources — but it urges swifter action and more authority for the Customs and Border Protection commissioner to tackle al- legations of wrongdoing by its 60,000 employees. "Currently there is no one who the Secretary of Homeland Security can clearly hold accountable for seeing to it that cor- ruption does not take root within CBP and that our national security interests at our nation's border are not compromised by cor- rupt CBP personnel," the panel wrote. A massive hiring surge during the last decade has fueled concerns about cor- ruption, use of force and lack of transparency at Customs and Border Pro- tection, which was created in 2003 as part of the De- partment of Homeland Se- curity to oversee the Bor- der Patrol and manage the nation's ports of entry. HomelandSecuritySecre- taryJehJohnsoncreatedthe Customs and Border Pro- tection Integrity Advisory Panel in December 2014 to address the concerns. 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